Yo, doofus
Mar. 26th, 2018 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI'm actually talking to you. When I said that "they" could've done this or that* to prevent your middle school teacher from molesting one of your classmates, I didn't mean you could've done this. I meant your school. Obviously, because who the hell refers to somebody as "they" when addressing them!? Putting aside the fact that, you are correct, 12 year olds do not have the power to require their teachers to do anything - you're not the they I'm talking about! If I meant you, I'd've said you.
* Specifically, given the described scenario, they could've pre-emptively had the same rule many schools have today barring teachers from going off-site alone with students. Either you have multiple adults, or you have multiple students, but you don't go on one-on-one excursions off-campus. This won't stop anybody bound and determined to cause harm, but it'll prevent them from hiding so well in the process.
* Specifically, given the described scenario, they could've pre-emptively had the same rule many schools have today barring teachers from going off-site alone with students. Either you have multiple adults, or you have multiple students, but you don't go on one-on-one excursions off-campus. This won't stop anybody bound and determined to cause harm, but it'll prevent them from hiding so well in the process.
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Date: 2018-03-26 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-03-26 06:55 pm (UTC)Just a few days ago the forum we're both on was talking about Andy Savage, the pastor who admitted (after the SoL ran out, of course) to sexual assault and got a standing ovation.
And he commented that since a blow job is "technically" sodomy, we could call him Sodomite Andy Savage. To which I said, hey, let's not use their homophobic slurs for funzies. If we want to call him out every time we talk about him, why not call him Rapist, which he is.
Seventeen comments later he's still going "It's not a homophobic slur!"
Well, if it's not, why the hell are you giggling so much at your own cleverness that you can "technically" call him one!? Why are you so bound and determined that this is the best, most insulting word for him, not any of the others (some of which he suggested he uses for other people, like Odious or Disgusting)?
I'm not sure I want to block him just yet, because these are the arguments I don't get anxiety over but....