today's bit of cosmic synchronicity
Dec. 9th, 2010 12:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merielleSo I'm sitting on my couch, working on my final paper for my feminist theory class. My partner is out of town on business and the house is super quiet, so I had Young Frankenstein on in the background.
Our papers for this class are supposed to advance our master's thesis work. In my thesis, I plan to think through the limited sex education offered now, why and how it fails young people, where they look for information instead, how the current approach reinforces patriarchal gender roles and the ideology of rape, and how we can do better at helping young people have healthy sexual lives. What I'm doing for this paper is reading the few publicly available sex ed materials used in Texas schools through the anti-racist, anti-homophobic, feminist critical lens we've been developing all semester.
As I was writing about the disconnect between what the public wants (more than 2/3 of Texans want comprehensive sex education in schools) and what actually happens here (92% of schools teach abstinence-only), and how fucked up that is given how sexualized popular culture is, Young Frankenstein ended and some piece of crappy softcore Skinemax porn came on. Thanks for underscoring my point, universe!
Now I have Ronin on instead. Because I think my head would explode if there was stupid heteronormative mainstream porn on in the background while I'm ripping apart the racist, sexist, heteronormative, fear-mongering, factually inaccurate horseshit these people call a sex education curriculum.
Our papers for this class are supposed to advance our master's thesis work. In my thesis, I plan to think through the limited sex education offered now, why and how it fails young people, where they look for information instead, how the current approach reinforces patriarchal gender roles and the ideology of rape, and how we can do better at helping young people have healthy sexual lives. What I'm doing for this paper is reading the few publicly available sex ed materials used in Texas schools through the anti-racist, anti-homophobic, feminist critical lens we've been developing all semester.
As I was writing about the disconnect between what the public wants (more than 2/3 of Texans want comprehensive sex education in schools) and what actually happens here (92% of schools teach abstinence-only), and how fucked up that is given how sexualized popular culture is, Young Frankenstein ended and some piece of crappy softcore Skinemax porn came on. Thanks for underscoring my point, universe!
Now I have Ronin on instead. Because I think my head would explode if there was stupid heteronormative mainstream porn on in the background while I'm ripping apart the racist, sexist, heteronormative, fear-mongering, factually inaccurate horseshit these people call a sex education curriculum.
