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Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political correctness. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Confused
Heres' one way to completely confuse children.
Meet Storm. With those big blue eyes, fair hair and chubby cheeks, the four-month-old is certainly adorable.
But whether this baby is a bruising boy or a blushing girl is, the parents say, a secret. In fact, they’re leaving the decision up to him – or her.
The bizarre move has led to Kathy Witterick, 38, and husband David Stocker, 39, being labelled the most politically correct family in the world.
There's nothing ambiguous about the baby's sex. The parents know - as do brothers Jazz, five, and Kio, two, who somehow are apparently keeping their mouths shut.
One close family friend also knows, as do the two midwives who helped deliver the baby in a birthing pool in the couple's Toronto home on New Year's Day.
That, however, is it. When Storm was born, the couple sent an email to the rest of their friends and family that stated: 'We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...).'
Their announcement, they told the Toronto Star, was at first met with silence. Then came the deluge.
Storm's grandparents were supportive - but resented having to explain a gender-free baby to friends and co-workers.
Friends cleverly accused the couple of taking away the newborn's right to choice by imposing their own ideology on the tiny baby.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389593/Kathy-Witterick-David-Stocker-raising-genderless-baby.html#ixzz1NSZMCk3A
Are these the most PC parents in the world? The couple raising a 'genderless baby'... to protect his (or her) right to choice
By Daily Mail ReporterMeet Storm. With those big blue eyes, fair hair and chubby cheeks, the four-month-old is certainly adorable.
But whether this baby is a bruising boy or a blushing girl is, the parents say, a secret. In fact, they’re leaving the decision up to him – or her.
The bizarre move has led to Kathy Witterick, 38, and husband David Stocker, 39, being labelled the most politically correct family in the world.
Boy or girl? Storm, in red, gets a cuddle from his - or her - older brother Jazz
One close family friend also knows, as do the two midwives who helped deliver the baby in a birthing pool in the couple's Toronto home on New Year's Day.
That, however, is it. When Storm was born, the couple sent an email to the rest of their friends and family that stated: 'We've decided not to share Storm's sex for now — a tribute to freedom and choice in place of limitation, a stand up to what the world could become in Storm's lifetime (a more progressive place? ...).'
Their announcement, they told the Toronto Star, was at first met with silence. Then came the deluge.
Storm's grandparents were supportive - but resented having to explain a gender-free baby to friends and co-workers.
Friends cleverly accused the couple of taking away the newborn's right to choice by imposing their own ideology on the tiny baby.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389593/Kathy-Witterick-David-Stocker-raising-genderless-baby.html#ixzz1NSZMCk3A
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
School bans Easter at Easter Hat Parade
This is just ridiculous. There's a large Jewish community in Bondi, did the school react to some pressure from that group?
A SCHOOL ditched the word Easter from its Easter Hat Parade to try to teach students about religious "tolerance".
Bondi Public School principal Michael Jones wrote to parents about the decision, saying Easter was just one of many religious celebrations at this time of year.
"As we are an inclusive community which celebrates our diverse range of cultures and beliefs, I have not called it an Easter Hat parade," Mr Jones wrote in the school's latest newsletter.
"Many religious celebrations occur at this time of year but we want to include all students in any celebration at school. Teachers will talk to students about the different celebrations and the emphasis will be on tolerance and understanding."
However the ruling on Friday's fundraising event was overturned yesterday, after parents from the school in Sydney's east expressed anger.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Obama, Bush, Monkeys and Chimps
A Young Liberal has gotten himself into a spot of bother by referring to President Obama as a monkey on twitter. Now, I regard such comments as completely inappropriate but I do remember there was no shortage of people comparing President Bush to a chimpanzee. I'm unaware anyone ever got reprimanded for doing so. President Obama is entitled to the same level of insults as any other President. To spare him such insults because of his color amounts to racism. If Bush could put up with it so can Obama.
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