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Should we let children identify as animals? - C_T_Russell - 25-07-2023
Logical answer is no, the article is paywalled, but you get the idea what direction this is going.
And yes litter boxes are now a thing in NZ schools.
I have a reliable source who has a child attend a school in the Wellington region and they tell me their childs class has got one.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/opinion/jane-clifton-what-should-adults-do-when-a-child-identifies-as-an-animal/DOUN3YKUPJHWZCI5I7KUU3XP5M/
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - yousnoozeyoulose - 25-07-2023
We all selectively read what we want to. That's a given.
But why do some people seemingly just read the BS?
It's a mystery to me.
Miaow.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Olive - 25-07-2023
You have fallen for a new urban myth that was started a while ago by anti-trans activists to dog-whistle and hyperbolise questions of gender identity. Your "reliable source" is either just as gullible as you are, or is part of the campaign.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Oh_hunnihunni - 25-07-2023
I remember having the best fun at Royal Oak Primary School when we girls transformed ourselves into horses and galloped around the green fields every play time and lunch...
Of course we should be able to identity in imaginative ways as children. It is one way of growing our empathy skills.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - harm_less - 25-07-2023
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RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - king1 - 25-07-2023
let them have their fun CT, pretending to be animals is just harmless childhood fun...
The litter box thing is just another hoax thats been around for a couple of years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_boxes_in_schools_hoax
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - C_T_Russell - 25-07-2023
(25-07-2023, 01:10 PM)Olive Wrote: You have fallen for a new urban myth that was started a while ago by anti-trans activists to dog-whistle and hyperbolise questions of gender identity. Your "reliable source" is either just as gullible as you are, or is part of the campaign.
Their daughter was the one telling them all about it after coming home from school.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Oh_hunnihunni - 25-07-2023
(25-07-2023, 01:35 PM)harm_less Wrote:Exactly! So much fun...
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - king1 - 25-07-2023
(25-07-2023, 02:35 PM)C_T_Russell Wrote:(25-07-2023, 01:10 PM)Olive Wrote: You have fallen for a new urban myth that was started a while ago by anti-trans activists to dog-whistle and hyperbolise questions of gender identity. Your "reliable source" is either just as gullible as you are, or is part of the campaign.
Their daughter was the one telling them all about it after coming home from school.
and kids (or adults) never make shit up - name the school CT so we can ask them...
So many schools in NZ and everywhere have said this is just BS
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - R2x1 - 25-07-2023
It's pre-election time, the air is pretty full of BS, added to the normal kids' output. Not that kids were short of it in my day.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Kenj - 25-07-2023
Many+ years ago a mate of mine was going out with a girl who, as he told us, was a complete female dog?
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Oh_hunnihunni - 25-07-2023
I would like to identify as a bear. So many benefits - go hairy, sleep all Winter, eat a lot, growl at passers by, swat perfect strangers...
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Zurdo - 25-07-2023
I came home one day and my little daughter said ''I'm a rabbit !'' I asked her 'And what is your name little rabbit ?' ''I'm Ronnie Rabbit !'' We called her Ronnie for years...and years.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Kenj - 25-07-2023
(25-07-2023, 05:31 PM)Zurdo Wrote: I came home one day and my little daughter said ''I'm a rabbit !'' I asked her 'And what is your name little rabbit ?' ''I'm Ronnie Rabbit !'' We called her Ronnie for years...and years.
Ha ha, love that
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Olive - 25-07-2023
(25-07-2023, 05:20 PM)Oh_hunnihunni Wrote: I would like to identify as a bear. So many benefits - go hairy, sleep all Winter, eat a lot, growl at passers by, swat perfect strangers...
And eat lots of salmon.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Oh_hunnihunni - 25-07-2023
And honey.
Bears like honey.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - oldschooler - 26-07-2023
Do a serach and you'll find: skynews piers morgan slams uk schools children identify as animals. You need to separate out child play from actual ideology that is promoted. If the logical conclusion is too unbelievable perhaps you go back to the ideology to see if that is flawed. It is flawed due to its post modern: there is no objective truth, origin. To object to the statement just made is a tell tale sign that the objector does not agree with post modernism in fact. In other words, Post modernism has no objective way of critiquing itself because post modernist objection actually shows that the post modernist is in fact not post modern at all.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Oh_hunnihunni - 26-07-2023
Ummmm, except that child play is a vital piece of post modernist thinking if you look into educational philosophy, as I was forced to do at length not so long ago. Letting children have free rein of their imaginations with regard to their development of self, gender and identity is a common theme.
And after all, is it so far away from adults having spirit animals to guide them, or imagining an entire pantheon of gods and angels and devils to do the same.
The day we let raving idiots like Piers Morgan be taken seriously is the day we should abandon all sense of being intelligent beings and go join the rabbits in the fields.
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Olive - 26-07-2023
Here's some background.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/urban-myth-litter-boxes-schools-became-gop-talking-point-rcna51439
RE: Should we let children identify as animals? - Oh_hunnihunni - 26-07-2023
The thing that intrigues me about misinformation is the human willingness to accept such rank idiocy as possibly true. That in itself is proof of just how wonderful our imagination is.
And explains so much about the way we create our realities.