KoЯn - Good God
Posted by Sike around 9:10 AM 0 comments
Ε, ΕΝ ΚΑΝΕΙ ΠΟΥ ΠΑΩ ΤΖΙΑΙ ΔΟΥΛΕΙΑ!
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Labels: Εμείς κι ο κόζμοζμας, Καθημερινά
Posted by Sike around 10:56 AM 11 comments
Labels: Ανυποθεθκιές, Καθημερινά
Sexual harassment at age 5?
Jason got into trouble one day when his kindergarten classmate Ashley came home from school and reported to her parents that Jason had told her that he wanted to “have sex” with her. Ashley’s parents, very upset, told her she should never play with Jason again, that he was a bad boy. They then contacted the teacher and the principal and demanded a meeting with Jason’s parents. All of the adults involved were concerned about what might be going on in Jason’s home for him to come up with such a comment at the age of five. In some circumstances, such comments from young children can be an indication of sexual abuse. The principal, a firm believer in the school’s Zero Tolerance policy that said any child who committed an act of aggression or violence was subject to suspension, was considering a brief suspension to teach Jason that he should never say such a thing.
Fortunately for little Jason, the school psychologist met with him before this could happen. She told him that some people were worried about what he said to Ashley. She asked him if he would tell her what he said and what he had wanted to do to Ashley. Jason instantly burst into tears. He sobbed, “I wanted to kiss her. I like her. I like her.” This was the first time anyone had bothered to ask Jason what he meant by what he said, a potentially damaging error on the part of the adults. They were all using an adult lens for interpreting what he said about sex, not a child’s lens. Often when adults think “sex,” children have something very different on their minds.
An important question to ask in this situation is to what degree Jason’s comment grew out of his efforts to make sense of the messages about affection, sex, and relationships that he might be getting every day from popular culture. While it is hard to answer this question in hindsight, in these times it’s probably safe to assume that the popular culture could very well have played a significant role. Had it not been for the school psychologist, he might have been punished for doing something he’d learned and internalized from those messages. Jason, as much a victim of the sexualized popular culture as Ashley, was also victimized by the adults’ fear and misunderstanding.We can only be grateful that the psychologist found a way to connect with Jason, to hear his point of view. We can hope that Jason got the kind of support he needed to regain his self-confidence and to learn how to express affection for his peers in appropriate ways. We also hope that Ashley got help working through the misguided and disturbing response she got to Jason’s words from the adults around her.
A highly publicized story about a first-grader in the Boston area did not have such a happy ending. A boy was suspended from school for a week when a girl in his class reported that he touched her skin inside the waistband of the back of her pants. The Zero Tolerance policy in his school left no room to take into account the understanding or possible needs of this seven-year-old child. Once again, here is a child paying a high price for the new sexualized childhood and adults’ reaction to it. And both stories illustrate a very disturbing trend — as adults get more and more uptight about how the sexualized environment is affecting children, they end up ascribing adult intent to behaviors that would have been interpreted as “children just being children” in the past.
Posted by Sike around 8:32 AM 8 comments
Labels: Εμείς κι ο κόζμοζμας, Ισιωτήριο, Τύπος/ΜΜΕ
Με την ευκαιρία, γήπεδα μπάσκετ, τέννις, μάππας κτλ. θα ήταν πολλά καλή ιδέα και όχι μόνο για το συγκεκριμένο χώρο. Με τόσο ξύλο που πέφτει τελευταίως με το παραμικρό (επειδή του έπαιξεν την πουρούν, επειδή επήρεν τον shύλλον θάλασσα, επειδή εζαοείδεν τον, επειδή γενικώς έshει κόμπλεξ), χώροι εκτόνωσης κρίνω ότι είναι απαραίτητοι. Όταν στη γειτονιά υπάρχουν χώροι για δραστηριοποίηση/εκτόνωση, έθθα κάθουνται ο μιτσιοί ούλλη μέσα έσσω να παίζουν Grand Theft Auto (και άλλα) ή να θωρούν τες συμμαθήτριές τους (και άλλες) σε video στο YouTube τζιαι μετά να φκαίνουν έξω τζιαι (αφού συνηθίσουν τα μμάθκια τους στο φως) να νομίζουν ότι έτσι εν ο κόσμος και αναλόγως να συμπεριφέρονται.
Απαιτώ όπως οι καθορισμένοι χώροι πρασίνου στις γειτονιές, που σήμερα φιλοξενούν κάτσαρα και τραμπάλες αγιωμένες, ανακαινιστούν (και πληθύνουν) πάραυτα!
υ.γ. είπα ότι εν καλή η ιδέα του δημοψοφίσματος; Έπρεπε να το κάμουν τζιαι με την Πλατεία Ελευθερίας - άτε μεν ανοίξω άλλες φάλιες τωρά.
*έτσι λαλεί που πάνω, άμαν μπεις...
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Labels: Εμείς κι ο κόζμοζμας
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Labels: Ανυποθεθκιές