Wednesday, July 11, 2007

No teenager would be allowed to read this

Have you ever wondered whether the content of your blog is suitable for children? Check out the Mingle2 website which rates blogs as if they were movies. I run this test on my blog and here's what I got:
This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
• abortion (21x)  • death (3x)  • kill (2x)  • bomb (1x)

Are you sure? I bet the last three words are well known not only to 17 year-olds but to any 7 year-old who plays video games. As for the word "abortion" - I doubt there's any 17 year-old who doesn't know what it is; after all, the so called "sex education" lessons start at grade 8 (if not earlier). So while 13 year-olds are not allowed to hear the word "abortion" in the movies, they could always hear it in class, as their teacher or a guest speaker from "planned parenthood" explains them that killing the unborn is a legitimate "choice" if other methods of contraception fail.

If you think that's the worst there is in those lessons - sorry to disappoint you, there's much more.
Those in 8th grade, for example, may be asked to ponder their “gender identity.” Is this the same thing as your actual gender, which should be, ummm, obvious by this time? No. Students are told that it’s “your identification of yourself as a man or a woman, based on the gender you feel to be inside.”
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Students in 10th grade, meanwhile, read “coming out” stories from homosexuals, a bi-sexual and one “transgendered” individual.
A public school curriculum gives our children absolutely no knowledge on maintaining a steady relationship and building a successful family. Introducing a teenager to Psychology and Socionics? Forget it! Instead, our children are flooded with information about every perversion there is. Some textbooks (like the ill-famous "little black book") actually promote the most selfish and perverse types of intercourse as "safe" simply because they never result in pregnancy.

I bet, if an average "sex education" lesson was made a movie, it would most likely be R-rated. So how come the same rules that apply to our movies don't apply to our schools?

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