‘Yo momma’ banned in Britain
What’s the best way to reduce domestic violence against women? According to the British government and the National Union of Teachers (with the very appropriate acronym of “NUT”) a great way is to crack down on little boys on the playground.
Sexist insults are to be banned from the playground.
Teachers are warned today that words such as “slag” and “slut” lead to boys feeling superior to girls and make domestic violence seem more acceptable.
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The NUT lists unacceptable insults including “lezzie”, “pro” and “your mum’s a whore”.Boys should be challenged if they are heard directing such terms at girls. It is considered equally unacceptable for girls to aim such insults at one another.
I guess it’s okay to say these things to boys though.
In further moves to tackle domestic violence, teachers of subjects including English and drama are being urged to use their lessons to examine relationships and gender stereotypes.
My English class in primary school was woefully deficient in relationship exploration and the examination of gender stereotypes. We had all of this boring stuff about nouns and verbs and conjunctions and so on. It’s good to see that schools are moving away from such archaic instruction and actively pursuing the much loftier goal of social constructionism.
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(Tip credit to Pam)
So, we have English classes teaching about the evils of gender stereotyping, and math classes teaching “respect for human differences.” I wonder if I can sue my old schools since they wasted many years of my life by making me diagram sentences and leaning about those silly laws of physics and geometry instead of teaching me the really important stuff.
They teach Spanish grammer, maybe kids could use similar rules for English. They do have a lots of sexist terms though, almost every word has a male or female assignment. I guess that needs to be fixed.