Up all night, but I'm gonna crash just after noon

[conuly]

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I’ve Talked With Teenage Boys About Sexual Assault for 20 Years. This Is What They Still Don’t Know

Comments

[author_by_night]

You know, my sex-ed class in high school was a joke, but one thing it DID do well was call out boys involved in toxic behavior. It made it very clear what was rape and abuse. It was still slightly problematic in some ways, but I'm glad they at least did more than just put it all on women. I wish more of that happened, including in parents.

[conuly]

It's good that it wasn't 100% awful, especially in that particular way.

[bibliofile]

[reading your recent entries] I'm glad your mom's gonna be okay. So stressful, parents!

re: corn allergies
I've met someone who is that allergic to wheat & gluten. A severe corn allergy would be worse, in the US. Gah.

[conuly]

A corn allergy sounds terrible to have to manage.

[gatheringrivers]

That last link explains a lot...

[conuly]

Yuuuuuup.

[workday_dreamer]

I don't think the (very little) sex-ed we had in my high school touched on sexual assault at all. It was an all girl school, so that might have been it.

If I'm remembering correctly, if you were in one of the two classes that took Physics as a subject (I was), you didn't get all of the sex-ed classes that the other kids got because we didn't take Life Orientation.

I'm really glad it's changing. I think we just had a young trainee teacher come in to talk to us...

Life Orientation?

[negothick]

So that's why so many of my fannish and folkie friends and I are so strange. . .we never got to take Life Orientation.

Re: Life Orientation?

[workday_dreamer]

Haha! My boss when I mentioned it thought it was a class that provided business skills and the like.

I'm not actually sure what it was meant to be. When there was a nation wide exam implemented for grade 10 (I think so that could be the end of absolute basic education and kids who left school then to work or home on to vocational education had some kind standardized exam pass mark to show how they did at school. I'm don't know of it's still a thing anymore), the questions were all about naming some cabinet ministers and the premier of the province. From the little I remember, Life Orientation/Life Skills was more like group therapy/life coaching. Not a terrible idea, but the school counselor who taught it was a little weird. The other counselor seemed nicer, bit she was Christian and the only sex-ed stuff from her was abstinence only.