• @clearedtoland@lemmy.world
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    1612 years ago

    My. God. The pearl clutching and oppression of the female body these days. We may as well go back to corsets and chastity belts.

    I’m not going to encourage a HSer to twerk, but c’mon! You’re going to punish her for having fun at an unrelated and offsite event? Get real.

    • Kraiden
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      892 years ago

      She wasn’t even the one twerking… she just happened to be near someone twerking… how dare she?

    • @Moonviola@lemmy.ca
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      202 years ago

      She’s not allowed to dance offsite at a private party but if you go to the school’s YouTube channel there are a couple cringy music videos of all the staff dancing (including the principal) on school property during working hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qjnPeUOMjo

      And why was he even watching these videos in the first place. They would have just been fun videos the friends made to share with each other outside of school. This was just about him being turned on by watching an under age girl dancing and then punishing the girl for his feelings.

    • @TheActualDevil@lemmy.world
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      112 years ago

      in Kate Manne’s “Down Girl,” about misogyny she wrote: “They put women in their place when they seem to have ‘ideas beyond their station.’”

      “Misogynist hostility encompasses myriad ‘down girl’ moves . . . to generalize: adults are insultingly likened to children, people to animals or even to objects. As well as infantilizing and belittling, there’s ridiculing, humiliating, mocking, slurring, vilifying, demonizing sexualizing or, alternatively desexualizing… and other forms that are dismissive and disparaging in specific social contexts.”

      Emphasis mine to point out the most relevant portions in this case. It’s a solid read on misogyny that I definitely recommend to anyone.

    • Flying Squid
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      62 years ago

      Or they’ll find out she kissed a girl and send her to “conversion therapy.”

    • @Destraight@lemm.ee
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      22 years ago

      What are you talking about? She has already graduated, so how is the school going to expel her? I believe that ship has already sailed

  • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1002 years ago

    So what you can’t shake your ass if you are smart? Thats bullshit. You should be able to strip AND get your masters degree. You should be able to take bikini pics and post your published research papers. What does it matter? Our species is marked by their brown noses.

      • Liz
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        162 years ago

        But for real, you should. I know what you’re referencing, and I see no reason why you can’t have a side job in an unrelated field as a cop.

      • Flying Squid
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        132 years ago

        I’ll say the same thing I said in that thread- I have more respect for her as an OnlyFans star than I do for her as a cop and if shooting innocent black people doesn’t disqualify you from being a cop, then being on OnlyFans sure shouldn’t.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      82 years ago

      Funny thing is a lot of sex workers near uni towns will actually be grad students working to pay tuition costs, and not like “doctorate in underwater basket weaving” like the right likes to try and demonize all degree paths but work degrees as, I’ve seen MBAs and Law School students doing this too.

      • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        52 years ago

        And shit its not a bad idea. If you can pull a lot of money each night you might graduate debt free. Which, in modern times, frees you of the noose of school loan repayments. I would much rather strip than have to pay these back right now on my inflexible career salary. Now, the abuse that comes with it is not okay. But that goes along with the demonizing of these profesions.

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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          32 years ago

          I mean there are safe routes, Tryst looks to be run by a cooperative of tech and sex workers, or at least started as something like that with the intention of making sex work as safe as possible.

          • twelve20two
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            12 years ago

            Not the person you responded to, but I’m going to look into this. Thanks

  • @Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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    842 years ago

    It appears that the principal is backpedaling really hard. Even so, the kid still lost out on the scholarship because she missed the deadline to apply through the school.

    The mother said in response to the principal’s apology,

    “It’s too little, too late. I even told him on the phone conversation when he made it to us at noon today asking us to come into the office and he mentioned reinstating the scholarship, I let him know that the scholarship deadline was done, and the damage that he’s done to her is done. I also told him I gave them the opportunity when I came in there at 7 o’ clock the next morning, to try and rectify the situation at that point. Now, with somebody holding his hand forcing him to do something, an apology being enforced it’s too late,” said Rachel Timonet

  • @jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
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    652 years ago

    Sounds like some religious bullshit.

    “That I wasn’t basically following God’s ideals, […]”

    Yep…

    • @Chunk@lemmy.world
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      182 years ago

      I bet you if a male student raped someone he wouldn’t withdraw the scholarship. It’s because she’s a woman. Well, not even a woman she’s just a girl.

    • shastaxc
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      -22 years ago

      Well when you apply for religious scholarships you should kind of expect this.

      • @desconectado@lemm.ee
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        Jesus was friends with a prostitute. I’m sure he would be ok with some twerking.

        The problem is religious nuts who take everything to the extreme .

        • shastaxc
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          22 years ago

          Jesus would not condone modern day Christianity but that is not the point. Everyone knows what modern Christianity is about, and prudishness is definitely part of their ideal. If this girl applied for a Christian scholarship, she had to have known at least that much about the religion.

          But a good lesson to learn from this story is stop posting anything on social media. Just live your life. If you wanna twerk, do it. No need to show the whole world.

          • @Elivey@lemmy.world
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            42 years ago

            She was in the background of the video, dancing while a different girl in the foreground was twerking. Did you even read the article? So just never go outside and dance ever because someone might record you dancing near someone else twerking and post it? Wtf kind of victim blaming is this? It doesn’t say she applied for a christian scholarship either.

        • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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          -172 years ago

          Well maybe his friend was a classy prostitute.

          Twerking’s demeaningly ridiculous. Like stripper, yeah, respectable. Stripping’s sexy, it’s alluring. Twerking’s just a somewhat athletically impressive display of how fast can you can convulse your pelvis.

          Describing twerking as “sexy” is like someone doing a motorboat on your dick while you wag it bippidy-bippidy up and down across their lips, then trying to sell that as a passionate seduction scene in a romance novel.

      • @Elivey@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        I didn’t see anything in the article about her applying to a religious scholarship. Source?

  • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    592 years ago

    It was probably a scholarship for people with lower spinal paralysis. She was all set to collect the money but then she got roped into one of J-Roc’s grease videos.

    • @Wxnzxn@lemmy.ml
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      Nope, after reading the article, it seems she was a student destined to be used for PR by the school and probably also for sucking up to donors. No humanity allowed, twerking is of the devil and such stuff.

  • JokeDeity
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    472 years ago

    Louisiana is fucked. Can these conservative fucking demons finally all move to one place and start their conservative nation like they always dream out loud about and leave the rest of us the fuck alone already?

      • @TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee
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        22 years ago

        See that’s been tried, Abrahamic faiths are inherently expansionist. The only way to get rid of them is eradication of the faith, but we’ve all agreed genocide is a no go.

    • @Madison420@lemmy.world
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      112 years ago

      They’ve done that multiple times boss most notably the southern flight to South America post civil war and again to colonial Africa.

      • JokeDeity
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        112 years ago

        Yes, but I want ALL of them to go, and definitely not just because it would become the greatest place of all time to drop a fucking nuke.

        • @Stupidmanager@lemmy.world
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          132 years ago

          Now, now. Don’t be so hasty with killing all those people by nuke… just use strategic missiles with large yield. There are places we’d probably like to use again.

          • JokeDeity
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            22 years ago

            Fair point, and I hope it’s an uninhabited island, I would want any decent people caught in the crossfire.

          • JokeDeity
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            22 years ago

            For the same reason you exterminate any pest? Just like cockroaches, they need to be kept from multiplying and spreading. Don’t bother looking for cracks here, I have spent 30 years hating these people with every fiber, my mind is concrete on the matter.

              • JokeDeity
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                12 years ago

                That’s fine, these people believe that a magic man in the sky has given them eternal life and the rights to women as property and that if you give billions of dollars to already rich people it will magically trickle down to the poor people, it’s just crazy v crazy.

  • @Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    472 years ago

    Compared to Afghanistan where girls can’t get an education, I bet these Christians consider themselves very tolerant and progressive.

    Religion excels at making idiots into massive idiots, and empower them too.

    • GladiusB
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      52 years ago

      Wait until they find out their religion is just bullshit

      • @Aceticon@lemmy.world
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        32 years ago

        You can’t find out that something is bullshit when you refuse to believe anything you’re told that doesn’t align it it not bing bullshit.

        (Or to put it metaphorically: you can’t catch a ball you’re activelly avoiding).

      • torpak
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        22 years ago

        Problem with bulshit is, once the pile is high enough it’s very hard to convince people that there is no pony underneath.

        And this particular pile has been heaped on for centuries…

  • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy
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    302 years ago

    “That I wasn’t basically following God’s ideals, which made me cry even more.” So a state institution imposing religious virtues on a student? How is that constitutional, something for the ACLU perhaps?

  • @Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
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    292 years ago

    At this point if anyone ever brings up religion to me outside of work, I’m just gonna shit on it. Tolerating religion is morally bad and religion should be as taboo as smoking.

    • torpak
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      42 years ago

      Like, do it in private, but don’t bother other people with it. Seems fair.

      • ArxCyberwolf
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        72 years ago

        Religion is like a penis. You can do whatever you want with it at home, but don’t go waving it in people’s faces, and especially keep it away from children.

      • @Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Would you be ok with people being Nazis at home? If someone commits to an ideology at home, it affects their entire personality/interactions. I’d argue this is a form of tolerance which is bad.

        • torpak
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          12 years ago

          Would you be ok with surveilling everyone to make sure they are not Nazis? While I am uncomfortable with the knowledge that there are some people out there who are Nazis in secret, that is still much better than them feeling comfortable enough to be Nazis in the open.

          Also I would prefer even Nazis marauding in the streets to universal surveillance, which for me at least is hardly imaginable without at least a little Nazi ideology at government level.

          Also I was talking about religion which in contrast to Nazi-ideology can be benign, when practiced in private.

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            I wasnt advocating for surveiling everyone. I was suggesting creating an atmosphere that continuously shuts down religion just like we do with Nazism. I accept that not everyone agrees with Nazis, but our general consensus is that Nazis are bad. The same cannot be said for our general consensus of religion.

            • torpak
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              12 years ago

              Well, as I see it, it’s only organized religion that is harmful.

              • @Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world
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                These groups get their legitimacy and authority by following an ideology everyone worships. There’s a reason why Scientology is seen as a stupid idea while Christianity/Islam are “ways of life.” It’s because the latter religions are popular and they become legitimate because of popularity. That’s why I think it’s really important to shame anyone who considers themselves a true religious person, to errode that legitimacy.