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Closeauthor=turkeyDawg
I'm personally more annoyed by single-word titles like "Haven", "Revolution", "X", etc, because they're kinda hard to Google and have a mild tendency to be firmly lodged up their own ass.
Yeah, I have issues with finding anything on Google to do with Dungeon Crawl. "It'll be funny!" I thought. "It's cutesy and describes it perfectly."
No.
I highly recommend you don't do this unless it's a really obscure word you're going to use. Generic words? They have their place but you will never find your game.
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
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>"When white guys listen to Daler Mehndi"
>Only half of the cast in the thumbnail is white
EDIT: I literally just found the best thing ever.
>Only half of the cast in the thumbnail is white
EDIT: I literally just found the best thing ever.
it happened
Bourke v. Beshear is the consolidated case for fighting against same sex marriage bans with SCOTUS. I've got high hopes on its success and feasting on bigot tears.
Bourke v. Beshear is the consolidated case for fighting against same sex marriage bans with SCOTUS. I've got high hopes on its success and feasting on bigot tears.
author=Corfaisus
>"When white guys listen to Daler Mehndi"
>Only half of the cast in the thumbnail is white
EDIT: I literally just found the best thing ever.
I know, right?
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
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author=GreatRedSpirit
it happenedBourke v. Beshear is the consolidated case for fighting against same sex marriage bans with SCOTUS. I've got high hopes on its success and feasting on bigot tears.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/15/mississippi-school-board-gay-clubs_n_6482132.html
The adults are telling the kids what they can and can't accept. I repeat, the past is telling the future how to act.
I'm sorry, but this is not okay.
Take a good long hard look at how this is affecting our youth. Look at all the pain this lack of understanding and acceptance brings so many of us, both those who are LGBT and those who, like myself, are straight that simply stand with them in the hopes of a better future.
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
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author=Pizza
Welcome to Earth!
Fuck complacency.
I was looking at old photos of myself today.
You don't know what you've had until its gone.
Youth is wasted on the young.
You don't know what you've had until its gone.
Youth is wasted on the young.
It honestly makes me sick how some people are so stubborn and assholish about LBGT things. I just want to punch the world sometimes. It really makes you wonder how some people are more open than others, though. I mean, my brothers, sister and I were all brought up the same way by the same woman, but I'm the only one who is fully in support of LBGT, despite the fact we had a gay cousin (who was awesome). Hell, I'm Bi myself, but I don't dare tell them that because their fucktards when it comes to things like LBGT and the like (ugh, their thoughts on other races make me want to kick things. "Well, won't you be sorry when you're forced to cover your face/all of the street gets blown up by terrorists!" ...no, because it's not gonna happen and even if it did I'm intelligent enough to know the difference between splinter crazies in a religious/racial group and the main core who are just normal people.)
Hell, I had a yelling match with mum yesterday because she has this completely out-dated idea about sexual education. Her exact words were "It must be kept pure and innocent!" and I was all "Yeah, fine, if that's your thing. But knowing about something doesn't mean you have to do it so it's a choice thing, but at least let them know what they're not doing and how it would effect their lives either way."
And then she went on to tell me, after I asked where, if not in sexual education classes, girls and boys were supposed to learn about sex if the parents had outdated information on the subject (due to science and learning new things all the time about the human body) and she said - and I quote - "She can learn that stuff from her husband." and I never wanted to Hadoken society so hard before for brainwashing an other-wise intelligent-ish and strong-minded woman into being a slave of the patriarchy. Don't ask what happened when I asked, pray tell where the husband would get such information about a woman's body that he would know things that the person living inside the body wouldn't. That's when the yelling started.
I whole-heartedly agree with the person who said that old people shouldn't get a say in things that pertain to the future. That's not their job. Sure, offer advice but don't actually get counted in the vote since it's not your future (for long). (No offence to the older people here, but it's just stupid to be allowed to have a say in something that doesn't really pertain to you. It's like men having a say in women's body rights. Major fucked up.)
You know what I find strange (but awesome)? For all that there are some dicks around the game making forums, for the most part we're all on the same page with shit like this. It's like... playing games opens your mind in some way. Or something. Mainly. Maybe it's just RPGs, due to the fantastical nature of them and the requirement to suspend disbelief and just go with the flow and say 'yeah, okay, no biggie, I'll buy that.' Maybe.
Phew, that was a good rant/venting session~ ^.^
Hell, I had a yelling match with mum yesterday because she has this completely out-dated idea about sexual education. Her exact words were "It must be kept pure and innocent!" and I was all "Yeah, fine, if that's your thing. But knowing about something doesn't mean you have to do it so it's a choice thing, but at least let them know what they're not doing and how it would effect their lives either way."
And then she went on to tell me, after I asked where, if not in sexual education classes, girls and boys were supposed to learn about sex if the parents had outdated information on the subject (due to science and learning new things all the time about the human body) and she said - and I quote - "She can learn that stuff from her husband." and I never wanted to Hadoken society so hard before for brainwashing an other-wise intelligent-ish and strong-minded woman into being a slave of the patriarchy. Don't ask what happened when I asked, pray tell where the husband would get such information about a woman's body that he would know things that the person living inside the body wouldn't. That's when the yelling started.
I whole-heartedly agree with the person who said that old people shouldn't get a say in things that pertain to the future. That's not their job. Sure, offer advice but don't actually get counted in the vote since it's not your future (for long). (No offence to the older people here, but it's just stupid to be allowed to have a say in something that doesn't really pertain to you. It's like men having a say in women's body rights. Major fucked up.)
You know what I find strange (but awesome)? For all that there are some dicks around the game making forums, for the most part we're all on the same page with shit like this. It's like... playing games opens your mind in some way. Or something. Mainly. Maybe it's just RPGs, due to the fantastical nature of them and the requirement to suspend disbelief and just go with the flow and say 'yeah, okay, no biggie, I'll buy that.' Maybe.
Phew, that was a good rant/venting session~ ^.^
author=Liberty
You know what I find strange (but awesome)? For all that there are some dicks around the game making forums, for the most part we're all on the same page with shit like this.
It's the fact that we're exposed to a wide spectrum of competing viewpoints as a result of the sudden emergence of near-instantaneous communication in just the last couple of decades. We're the first generation to globalize in this manner, and the full ramifications of what that means won't be known for at least few more decades.
It honestly makes me sick how some people are so stubborn and assholish
I just want to punch the world sometimes
Welcome to Earth, the most vile piece of dirt to ever coast through the universe. There is no rock bottom to the limits of Human hatred and the desire to make others suffer. None. I have become so utterly convinced of this fact over the last few years that I doubt I'll ever be swayed against it. Mankind would rather see the entire world burn to ash than give up the fight for self gratification and the chance to be "right".
I don't understand people. I really don't.
author=Corfaisusauthor=PizzaFuck complacency.
Welcome to Earth!
I'm not intending to be complacent. I have simply reached a point where in certain situations I see no way out. We live on a planet with 7 billion Human beings. There's no escape from the nature of Humanity, which is ultimately that of an animal acting on primal instinct, to be the apex of their society.
Before I really go off the deep end with personal stuff here, I need to clarify that I agree completely with you. It's not okay that this happens. It effects everybody who doesn't fall into the extremely thin category of "normal" very negatively. It poisons the minds of everybody, the dialogue of mankind, and ends up slowly eating away at the world. The fact that people hate the very base components of other people is sickening. It makes as much sense as hating someone over their blood type.
The truth is that I've simply grown emotionally dead to the world around me, the world of Humanity. It doesn't seem real anymore. It's just another story, as concrete as anything I create in my artistic works. The voices of the world of Humans have become nothing more than white noise in my ears. I read news articles about horrible tragedies and hateful discrimination, and it triggers no response from me, it's just more information, more things that are happening which I have no control over at all, events playing out that stopped meaning anything to me.
Really the only feeling I do get is that I'm an awful person for not really having a response. I SHOULD care more about the workings of the world, but I don't. I can't be bothered to. This is a place where I feel so wronged innately by who I am that it seems there is no point in worrying about the process of it all, because I don't really belong here. I simply... ended up here.
I know that I probably sound like I'm high as balls right now, but I swear I'm not. It's weird to have this moment of clarity where I can talk about this.
I just want to live within the spaces I created for myself, out of my own mind. I know that they're no more real or imaginary than the reality I inhabit at the moment. But I was born here, with the wrong blood, the wrong body, the wrong everything. All I can do in this state is to try and create the worlds I would want to exist, where these issues plaguing society have been dealt with, do not exist, or are resolved.
If I know that one day everything will end, and I know that I will not control the moment that it all comes to a stop, then really there's no point to me being worried about what happens along the way. I should live within the world that I feel comfortable living in. I should try to know the presence of the people I fell in love with, who come from the other worlds out there.
So yeah, welcome to Earth. It's a pretty crappy story and idk why I'm a character in it. I'd rather be involved in the story of some other world to be honest, but I can't be, so that's that.
tl;dr put me in a fucking insane asylum, but it's good to have that rant/gush out of the way
I live in society where being gay is more normal than playing video games. Still I am sometimes surprised with hidden bigotry I sometimes find out by accident.
The first very bigot group are Nerdos. They are isolated from the rest of the society and easily gettin these ideas from computer. In their case it's not only about sexuality, It's about sexism too.
The other are religious people. These are understandable as its something wrong for their belief and They are often more open than said players. Of course There are different church attendants than in America or most of the world.
The last group amongst young people are fascists. No need to talk about these.
The problem of parents can't be solved completely. Its role of parent to affect its kids, show them what was proven in the past. They are the ones to teach ethics. Some of them are just bad parents. It can be problem running through generations or society they live in.
What i want to tell with this is that lesson learnt in the past shouldn't be forgotten in the future.
The first very bigot group are Nerdos. They are isolated from the rest of the society and easily gettin these ideas from computer. In their case it's not only about sexuality, It's about sexism too.
The other are religious people. These are understandable as its something wrong for their belief and They are often more open than said players. Of course There are different church attendants than in America or most of the world.
The last group amongst young people are fascists. No need to talk about these.
The problem of parents can't be solved completely. Its role of parent to affect its kids, show them what was proven in the past. They are the ones to teach ethics. Some of them are just bad parents. It can be problem running through generations or society they live in.
What i want to tell with this is that lesson learnt in the past shouldn't be forgotten in the future.
Two words: Discrimination sucks. Don't do it, it helps nobody.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter what groups a human is a part of, or even only percieved as being a part of, someone will always find a reason to derogate them because of that. And often enough, it's not even out of malice, just out of insecurity, because the same thing happens to them as well. Convincing oneself that certain "types" of people are all the same makes the world so much simpler - but it doesn't make it fairer.
We can learn to resist those urges, but it's not easy.
Pizza, in a way your viewpoint is understandable - I think everyone sometimes feels like earth is the worst place in the universe and humanity is the worst thing that ever happened to that place. Yes, humans can be incredibly stupid and our actions can be repulsive. But misanthropy is not the answer. No matter what, you are a part of this species after all, and directing such Anger towards it will only have the effect of making you and others suffer even more.
We also see every day that it's perfectly possible to break these vicious cycles by getting to actually know others. Even though it can be hard to see at certain times, people are capable of great thoughts and actions as well. That is where we should take our power of will from: Not from anger and resignation in the face of everything that's wrong and disgusting, but from knowing that positive counterefforts are possibe and being made. Hate and fatalism can make you seemingly strong and resilient, but in the end, they only grant destructive powers, most of which will redirect themselves towards you. I think you're a good person at core, no matter what, and you should trust yourself to be one as well.
You've said it yourself in other threads: Try to influence it all with your own actions. It's a limited power of influence, but it is one nontheless. You're not only one of billions of characters in the crappy story, you're one of the billions of its authors as well. And if that means you can make one page, or even only one paragraph, become less crappy, you've achieved a lot.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter what groups a human is a part of, or even only percieved as being a part of, someone will always find a reason to derogate them because of that. And often enough, it's not even out of malice, just out of insecurity, because the same thing happens to them as well. Convincing oneself that certain "types" of people are all the same makes the world so much simpler - but it doesn't make it fairer.
We can learn to resist those urges, but it's not easy.
Pizza, in a way your viewpoint is understandable - I think everyone sometimes feels like earth is the worst place in the universe and humanity is the worst thing that ever happened to that place. Yes, humans can be incredibly stupid and our actions can be repulsive. But misanthropy is not the answer. No matter what, you are a part of this species after all, and directing such Anger towards it will only have the effect of making you and others suffer even more.
We also see every day that it's perfectly possible to break these vicious cycles by getting to actually know others. Even though it can be hard to see at certain times, people are capable of great thoughts and actions as well. That is where we should take our power of will from: Not from anger and resignation in the face of everything that's wrong and disgusting, but from knowing that positive counterefforts are possibe and being made. Hate and fatalism can make you seemingly strong and resilient, but in the end, they only grant destructive powers, most of which will redirect themselves towards you. I think you're a good person at core, no matter what, and you should trust yourself to be one as well.
You've said it yourself in other threads: Try to influence it all with your own actions. It's a limited power of influence, but it is one nontheless. You're not only one of billions of characters in the crappy story, you're one of the billions of its authors as well. And if that means you can make one page, or even only one paragraph, become less crappy, you've achieved a lot.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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author=LibertyIt sounds like she's proably just assuming you're talking about something different than you're really talking about. A lot of old people think that "sex education" in schools is actually "how to make your partner have a really good orgasm in a variety of different sexual positions, with illustrations." This is an astonishingly common misconception. You can't possible convince them they're wrong because they think you're just lying to try to placate them.
And then she went on to tell me, after I asked where, if not in sexual education classes, girls and boys were supposed to learn about sex if the parents had outdated information on the subject (due to science and learning new things all the time about the human body) and she said - and I quote - "She can learn that stuff from her husband." and I never wanted to Hadoken society so hard before for brainwashing an other-wise intelligent-ish and strong-minded woman into being a slave of the patriarchy. Don't ask what happened when I asked, pray tell where the husband would get such information about a woman's body that he would know things that the person living inside the body wouldn't.
I mean obviously in her view, your husband isn't going to know how to... I don't know how to finish this sentence because I don't actually know what they teach girls in sex ed. I got the feeling that 90% of sex ed class was for the girls' sake. For boys it was just like, "Here's how pregnancy works. Some diseases can be transmitted sexually. Now we're going to separate you from the girls for the rest of the class, while the girls learn important girl stuff about their girl bits, and you have study hall. Or maybe watch a discovery channel special about the history of prehistoric and medieval condoms."
On the flip side that also means I don't know what "outdated" information could possibly be misconveyed by parents. If you know how babby is formed, and you know what a condom is and that STDs exist, you're good to go as far as I'm aware. This is all stuff you could learn in probably an hour, so if your school has an actual "sex ed class" and not just a single day's lesson in health class, that confuses me.
My POINT was that the things she thinks kids are learning in sex ed class are just sexy techniques that their lover can experiment with. With that premise, the idea that you would learn those things from your husband makes sense.
Oh, no, I pointed out various different bits of information about women's bodies that I had to learn myself because either she never told me (she never really gave me 'the talk' but instead gave me a Christian book about it. Yeah. Scientific and detailed it was not. Basically it boiled down to "This is the no-no place and you shouldn't ever touch it or let anyone else touch it until you are married because you will have a baby and here's why. Oh, and you're gonna bleed. Enjoy that shit because now you are a woman! :DDDDDDD" or the school failed to teach/had not known at the time.
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Seriously. There's a bunch of things that you never get told in sex ed that you should be (they're getting better at it - not only about your own body but your emotional connection to your body, gender issues and what-not. Things that society deems 'improper'. Honestly, while it can be embarrassing, boys should learn about girls and girls should learn about boys too, because it's not like half the human race ain't dealing with bullshit hormones too. :/ )
A lot of the things I learned (and am still learning) were from the internet. It's not a friendly place to be learning shit about your own body, especially when you have questions. Maybe it's just my mother but I've never been able to sit down and talk about, well, anything to do with biology in any way. She's a prude and very backward in her thoughts about what is and isn't proper to be discussed. Hell, if I need a tampon I have to check to make sure none of my brothers OR MY SISTER is around before asking if she has any spare 'ladies things'. She'll glare if I so much as say the word 'pad' or 'tampon' as though they're dirty words and half the human fucking race isn't dealing with the damn things. >.<
(Thankfully my sister isn't at all shy about such things and is happy to talk about them or I'd go mad when needing to discuss things like that.)
...yeah, I believe people should be open about biological shit and that it's not a big deal. Sorry if I offend anyone reading this post but seriously, it's part of being human. I don't see why such things need to be sidelined as dirty or disgusting and only talked about with either down-cast eyes and sidelong glances or as the butt of a joke about women. It's stupid. Just like talking about sex, masturbation and stuff like that is considered taboo is also stupid. Fucking bodily functions, people. We should all learn how they work.
For example, did you know that during a woman's menses (there, nice neat word for the squicky among you~) her Estrogen level drops so much that she is closer to a man's chemical make-up. That is, Testosterone isn't higher, but because of the drop, it becomes a more major player in the chemical make-up. Thus, the aggression and the like is them getting in touch with their male side (so to speak.)
This means all the fuckwits who say women shouldn't be political leaders because of their menses are talking out their ass as at that time women are acting more like men... so if women are unfit to lead, so should men be. In fact, the most stable people on the planet are post-menopause women. If we want stable leaders they're the ones who should be in charge (but good luck to that ever happening.)
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Seriously. There's a bunch of things that you never get told in sex ed that you should be (they're getting better at it - not only about your own body but your emotional connection to your body, gender issues and what-not. Things that society deems 'improper'. Honestly, while it can be embarrassing, boys should learn about girls and girls should learn about boys too, because it's not like half the human race ain't dealing with bullshit hormones too. :/ )
A lot of the things I learned (and am still learning) were from the internet. It's not a friendly place to be learning shit about your own body, especially when you have questions. Maybe it's just my mother but I've never been able to sit down and talk about, well, anything to do with biology in any way. She's a prude and very backward in her thoughts about what is and isn't proper to be discussed. Hell, if I need a tampon I have to check to make sure none of my brothers OR MY SISTER is around before asking if she has any spare 'ladies things'. She'll glare if I so much as say the word 'pad' or 'tampon' as though they're dirty words and half the human fucking race isn't dealing with the damn things. >.<
(Thankfully my sister isn't at all shy about such things and is happy to talk about them or I'd go mad when needing to discuss things like that.)
...yeah, I believe people should be open about biological shit and that it's not a big deal. Sorry if I offend anyone reading this post but seriously, it's part of being human. I don't see why such things need to be sidelined as dirty or disgusting and only talked about with either down-cast eyes and sidelong glances or as the butt of a joke about women. It's stupid. Just like talking about sex, masturbation and stuff like that is considered taboo is also stupid. Fucking bodily functions, people. We should all learn how they work.
For example, did you know that during a woman's menses (there, nice neat word for the squicky among you~) her Estrogen level drops so much that she is closer to a man's chemical make-up. That is, Testosterone isn't higher, but because of the drop, it becomes a more major player in the chemical make-up. Thus, the aggression and the like is them getting in touch with their male side (so to speak.)
This means all the fuckwits who say women shouldn't be political leaders because of their menses are talking out their ass as at that time women are acting more like men... so if women are unfit to lead, so should men be. In fact, the most stable people on the planet are post-menopause women. If we want stable leaders they're the ones who should be in charge (but good luck to that ever happening.)
author=LockeZ
My POINT was that the things she thinks kids are learning in sex ed class are just sexy techniques that their lover can experiment with. With that premise, the idea that you would learn those things from your husband makes sense.
I have never heard anyone say something like that about sex education, but I kinda believe it and that would explain a lot. It requires a little doublethink to convince yourself that if your kid doesn't go to sex ed, they won't find out about sex and won't have it. Inevitably they learn ridiculous half-truths from their best friend anyway. Also FWIW the idea that a husband is going to teach their wife all the tricks to having good sex sounds super boring, not to mention cliché as heck.
In relation to all this, my biggest fear in life, for a very long time, was that I'd grow up, get married, buy a house, have kids, and never have a critical thought in my life ever again. The last thing I want is to be 50 years old and be so caught up in a daily loop that I can't (or won't) understand things from a generation 30 years younger than me... my parents are set in their ways about some things (gay marriage, economy, drinking, premarital sex, etc.) and it frustrates my sisters and I endlessly. I don't know how much it takes to change a person who's been taught the same thing 30 years... but I hope I never get to the point where I refuse to learn. I guess that's just something to always keep in the back of my head?
It's pretty funny, though, recently my dad has changed his stance on sex from "don't have it before marriage" or "don't tell us about it" to "have as much as possible while you're still young" - he recently had prostate cancer, which prompted his change of heart - I guess even adults are always learning. That said, he still doesn't trust my slightly younger sister to be alone with guys.
But on a positive note, I agree with Liberty about RMN. A lot of internet game communities have pretty terrible subcultures, but RMN seems to have decent variety of people and viewpoints and we're usually pretty chill about it, right? Even the worst topics that happen here are potatoes to the typical crap in other places.
EDIT: Oh yea, I remembered this funny related quote from a while back: "The problem with raising kids to think for themselves is they start thinking things you don't want them to."
author=NeverSilent
You've said it yourself in other threads: Try to influence it all with your own actions. It's a limited power of influence, but it is one nontheless. You're not only one of billions of characters in the crappy story, you're one of the billions of its authors as well. And if that means you can make one page, or even only one paragraph, become less crappy, you've achieved a lot.
Yeah I forgot to include this part in my rant, unfortunately. Cause it's like the most important part, being that it's one of the bigger reasons that I make games to begin with.
EDIT: Fuck it, while making breakfast I found a way better and faster way to explain my viewpoint.
It's not that I don't care, I care immensely about everything pretty much. But I realized (through my own experiences) that being upset doesn't accomplish anything, not for the cause, not for myself, not for my ability to argue in support of something. I don't know how I managed to just flick an off switch for a lot of stuff, but I did.
Liberty and a few others will agree with me when I say: I myself do not handle being upset very well. So fuck it, I decided that I don't want to let myself be upset anymore. That's why I almost didn't post my last post, because it was too littered with me being shitty and angry. I couldn't explain anything, and about halfway through I just started doing half explaining, half creative writing and got all overdramatic.
tl;dr
Fuck being upset. Fuck it right in the ass.
Corfaisus
"It's frustrating because - as much as Corf is otherwise an irredeemable person - his 2k/3 mapping is on point." ~ psy_wombats
7874
author=LockeZauthor=LibertyIt sounds like she's proably just assuming you're talking about something different than you're really talking about. A lot of old people think that "sex education" in schools is actually "how to make your partner have a really good orgasm in a variety of different sexual positions, with illustrations." This is an astonishingly common misconception. You can't possible convince them they're wrong because they think you're just lying to try to placate them.
And then she went on to tell me, after I asked where, if not in sexual education classes, girls and boys were supposed to learn about sex if the parents had outdated information on the subject (due to science and learning new things all the time about the human body) and she said - and I quote - "She can learn that stuff from her husband." and I never wanted to Hadoken society so hard before for brainwashing an other-wise intelligent-ish and strong-minded woman into being a slave of the patriarchy. Don't ask what happened when I asked, pray tell where the husband would get such information about a woman's body that he would know things that the person living inside the body wouldn't.
I mean obviously in her view, your husband isn't going to know how to... I don't know how to finish this sentence because I don't actually know what they teach girls in sex ed. I got the feeling that 90% of sex ed class was for the girls' sake. For boys it was just like, "Here's how pregnancy works. Some diseases can be transmitted sexually. Now we're going to separate you from the girls for the rest of the class, while the girls learn important girl stuff about their girl bits, and you have study hall. Or maybe watch a discovery channel special about the history of prehistoric and medieval condoms."
On the flip side that also means I don't know what "outdated" information could possibly be misconveyed by parents. If you know how babby is formed, and you know what a condom is and that STDs exist, you're good to go as far as I'm aware. This is all stuff you could learn in probably an hour, so if your school has an actual "sex ed class" and not just a single day's lesson in health class, that confuses me.
My POINT was that the things she thinks kids are learning in sex ed class are just sexy techniques that their lover can experiment with. With that premise, the idea that you would learn those things from your husband makes sense.
What none of this covers is how not to be a completely selfish prick and just "make babby and be done". I don't know what they're teaching you in movies or porn, but you can't just run in, rip her and your clothes off, pound her crazy (she'll love that) and call it a night. She will not enjoy that, at all. Matter of fact, that will make her bleed, because her body will not be receptive (ready).
This is the kind of sexual education people need, so that we're not breeding a bunch of rapists that need to lose their virginity ASAP.
author=slashphoenix
Also FWIW the idea that a husband is going to teach their wife all the tricks to having good sex sounds super boring, not to mention cliché as heck.
It's also, as Liberty also stated, downright insulting that "her man" (who has no fucking clue what women go through and what all details "down there") will teach her how to do anything. For him, as my mother puts it, "it's just a hole for him to stick his dick in."
EDIT: But don't take my word for it; I'm just a man.
Which reminds me of this lovely site.
.. which has just tiny bits and pieces, but it's the message that counts.
It actually should be a requirement somehow, since the exposure to porn is so great compared to the actual experiences. It does add to shape the view.
But I can't blame anyone to not want that in class.
As for sex ed, I think it is fairly imperative to have that basic understanding. While parents can and should you inform, it really is better to be safe than sorry. It really does focus on the pregnancy and STDs bit, though.
There were a few more sensitive topics discussed as well in my school, but on a special vacation-kind of thing, not in normal classes, and with additional personal. Not just teachers.
.. which has just tiny bits and pieces, but it's the message that counts.
It actually should be a requirement somehow, since the exposure to porn is so great compared to the actual experiences. It does add to shape the view.
But I can't blame anyone to not want that in class.
As for sex ed, I think it is fairly imperative to have that basic understanding. While parents can and should you inform, it really is better to be safe than sorry. It really does focus on the pregnancy and STDs bit, though.
There were a few more sensitive topics discussed as well in my school, but on a special vacation-kind of thing, not in normal classes, and with additional personal. Not just teachers.
As an aside, I find it incredibly stifling when I hear the don't laugh rule come out of my teacher's mouth. I seriously get extremly angry hearing it. Laughing at anything in health class gets you a zero for the day. I understand completely that there are parts of a body and functiosn that are completely normal.
But god, even babies knwo farts are funny. My vies pretty much align perfectly with Libby's. And my fears align with slash's. I hope I'm still willing to learn when I'm older because I have seen so many older people who just won't learn anymore.
But god, even babies knwo farts are funny. My vies pretty much align perfectly with Libby's. And my fears align with slash's. I hope I'm still willing to learn when I'm older because I have seen so many older people who just won't learn anymore.
