Sometimes I think our nation has time-traveled back to the 1950s, when demented people made demented demands of the public schools and accused them of “indoctrinating” children with “socialist” or “Communist” or other labels. The crazies are back, as Billy Townsend reports from his town of Lakeland, Florida. These crazies want to protect their children from seeing certain dangerous words, specifically, “anus” and “bladder.”
Billy begins his post:
You would think that Polk County’s so-called County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF) would welcome inclusion of anuses in school curriculum.
After all, Steve Maxwell and Jimmy Nelson and Hannah Peterson and the other “leaders” of CCDF have been very supportive of anuses in the last year — particularly those anuses who tried to overturn the presidential election and who cheered on the Capitol Lynch Mob.
Back in May, the CCDF even made one of those anuses — convicted felon and coup advocate Michael Flynn — the guest of honor at some big local event/fundraiser. A fuller account of CCDF’s scandalous flirtation with Capitol Lynch Mob-supporting anuses can be found here.…
Given the CCDF’s celebration of figurative anuses, I find it curious that a number of them showed up to yell at School Board members Tuesday night about biological anuses and bladders, or least clinical diagrams of them.
As near as I can tell, the CCDFers thought they had some sort of gotcha when they found a 6th grade health curriculum diagram labeled “the reproductive system” that had the “anus” and “bladder” labeled. That’s it. Just identified and labeled. There was no hint of sexual content — beyond the clinical “reproductive system” label….
Excited by the words “anus” and “bladder,” a number of CCDFers berated the School Board Tuesday night — over and over and over again — about “anal sex,” which they clearly think about far more than 6th graders do.
See this dude for an example, starting about 58:30 of the board video hearing, linked here. Paraphrase: was this anatomical diagram with an “anus” and “bladder” labeled on it a secret coded nod to “homosexual behavior?…”
“Bladder?” Is bladdering a thing?
I guess I’m just an old school, traditional, 26-year married, sexually-sheltered man; because I can’t figure out, mechanically, where the bladder fits into the CCDF sex fantasies. I suppose I could ask the CCDF, as curriculum experts, to explain their sexualization of the bladder to me so I could understand it. But … I really don’t wanna.
The anti-choice anus people think they own your kids’ education
So, just go ahead and label the drawing “reproductive and excretion system” and/or “the plumbing” if your mind rushes off to weird sex images when you see the words “anus” and “bladder” written down on a clinical anatomy diagram in a 6th grade curriculum packet.
But, in that case, you also might consider intensive therapy. Normal people and parents don’t suffer from that pathology.
And yes, normal parents, this handful of anus people want to control what your kids are allowed to encounter and learn in school. They want to dominate you and your child with their anal sex fantasy talking points. That’s not a joke. Not remotely.
From bladders to Beloved, they think they own your kids’ public spaces and the content they can engage in a classroom. These book-banning, sex-obsessed charlatans are the most fervent anti-choice force in education today.
Two of these anus people are already running against lifetime teacher and public education warrior Sarah Fortney in 2022 School Board re-election campaign. Another anus person is running for a different seat. So expect to hear a lot of talk about anuses in education in the coming year.
Open the link and read more about the anus people of Lakeland, Florida.
Well Diane, your side wants to get rid of To Kill a Mockingbird, and Huckleberry Finn, so…..
You can’t be familiar with Ravitch’s work or ideas if you think she supports banning Huck Finn.
Exactly. And the comments about To Kill a Mockingbird were by a commenter on a post, not by Diane Ravitch.
And many of us defended the teaching of Mockingbird.
Thank you, Madeleine.
I have not read any post on this site in favor of banning Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird? Maybe someone’s reply?
Rather than being about “sides,” Diane is a strong advocate for what is best for children, education and the social fabric of our communities. If anyone is standing in the way of what is best for children and the overall well being of our society – then she speaks up.
The people (CCDF) referred to in this post…. are they on your “side” ? Do you stand for banning learning basic anatomy?
That is what the discussion of this post is about.
Wait: What? Have you read “The Language Police”? Please try to be informed when you come to comment in these fora. Sheesh….
Jacquilen,
I have never endorsed censorship. I wrote a book condemning censorship. Read it: “The language Police.” My “side” opposes censorship.
Bernie Madoff stock– cheap!
“Diane wants to ‘off’
The mockingbird and Huck”
And if you buy such stuff
I’ve Madoff stock to huck
To mock a bird killing
If Diane killed the Mockingbird
Then Gandhi killed the Brits
And Shakespeare killed the written word
And Carlton killed the Ritz
Perfect, SomeDAM!
Some do, but not Diane.
Please explain what you mean by “YOUR SIDE,” and then explain why you have a right to define what someone else thinks or does when you don’t know anything about them.
Tell me, do you think “Your Side” (your words) refers to the “liberal” label?
It’s not HER side, but my district is doing just that. I am in an extremely red state, though.
At first I thought this remark was funny. But upon reflection, it’s just plain pathetic.
Good morning Diane and everyone,
Oh oh….I feel an avalanche of “bottom” of the barrel jokes coming on! But seriously, these words are nothing compared to what kids say today!!
and heavens, where would any of us be without the objects being so dramatically “hidden” away out of some sort of puritanical fanaticism
Hahaha … ANUS and BLADDER are just scientific terms for body parts. The parents should be happy their kids know appropriate vocabulary for body parts.
Please STOP as it hurts to laugh this hard. Trying to figure out where word bladder fits into a sexual fantasy!! Too funny but of course, not funny if you are on an extended road trip with a driver who hates stopping except for fuel fill ups. Maybe we can get around this by using other languages? For example the Swahili word for “anus” is Mkundu.
LMAO!!!
As in Steve Mkundu Bannon
👍🏽 Good one, Bob.
Or Stephan Mkundu Goebbels Miller
Stephen (or Stevie)
Oh yes indeed….definitely use words other than English for body parts. Students will learn languages other than English.
I guess someone is trying really hard to associate the anatomically correct word “bladder” with the sexual fetish of “Golden Showers”?
Did this really happen or is this some kind of Onion article?
Aren’t bladders used to make sausages? Oops, I said sausages.
Sausages are encased in intestine. Lamb intestines were at one time in ancient history, used as condoms. Should anatomically correct intestines be relabeled (or ignored)? I guess the extremists could try and connect intestines to birth control?
This is “udder” madness!
OTOH, footballs were in fact originally made from animal bladders- sometimes those of a pig, hence the moniker “pigskin.”
Madam, LeftCoastTeacher said “sausages.”
Kathy Irwin, thank you for Mkundu. We should have a rich vocabulary of such terms, which few others understand.
Let’s see:”Your bladder is a real turn-on. I can’t stop thinking about your bladder.” Response, “Away with you, Mkundu! Don’t touch my bladder!”
LOL.
New medicine bottle labels: Take twice daily with meals for stuff down there.
“Trying to figure out where word bladder fits into a sexual fantasy!!”
Ask the tRump about “golden showers”. That involves using a bladder.
It even gets better! Later in the movie…
POTUS: I want to extend the thanks of a grateful nation…”
B&B: He said… “Extend”!
Hey Lakeland! Beavis & Butthead are cartoon characters! What’s your excuse?
This just in: Lakeland biology classes will now be using Ken & Barbie for anatomical models.
Also relevant:
omg that video is activating my 8yo bathroom humor memory. can’t listen to it without laughing. poor guy, what a name.
If you want to keep all suggestion of reproduction, urination, and defecation out of schools, you have to ban a whole lot more than anus and bladder. You’ll get just as many giggles if you mispronounce Uranus, use the nickname for Richard, or read Lear’s The Owl and the Pussycat. However, if you treat the students with enough respect and comport yourself with enough mature dignity, you can teach science or literature without even a single snicker. Therefore, it’s clear the problem with rightwing extremists is that they don’t think like mature adults.
No good pronunciation
Urine-us or Yer-anus
Number 1 or 2?
Teachers can’t contain us
Either pee or poo
Mother Uranus
Imagine if the Earth
Instead were called Yer-anus
The adolescent mirth
Forever more would pain us
And Mother of us all
Would be a sphincter hole
An global map on wall
A toilet paper roll
Career teachers are known for having stressed bladders because they cannot leave the room when nature calls. They have to hold it or wear adult diapers like astronauts.
And are they going to ban the following geographic locations (which I always have to stop my 9th grade geography students snickering at): Djibouti, Bangkok, Helsinki, and Lake Titicaca?
I have been to lake Titicaca.
And it is every bit as geographic as the name implies.
And you forgot one closer to home
The Tetons
Gotta love those Grand Tetons!
Oh yeah! How could I forget Grand Tetons!!
As a brand new teacher teaching junior high school science, I had a unit on simple machines. Try teaching the screw as a simple machine to a group of giggly junior high kids…. Just keep a straight face, define the machine ( an inclined plane wrapped around a cylinder) and keep going. Whew! Made it!
A lesson on simple harmonic motion is also always good for a few Snickers.
To say nothing of excited electrons.
You think you have it bad. I had to deal with copulative verbs!
I’ve told my classes that at one point I worked in a screw machine shop. Talk about getting their attention. Like when I’d tell them that I used to buy cocaine (legally, for a university teaching hospital). That also got their attention.
Well, I once worked on a project that used a video camera to take pictures of screws.
I need a three quarter male to join to a three quarter female galvanized pipe
Well, now that is just politically incorrect…..as is female/male terminals in electrical/computer fields and master/slave wording in computer science and coding fields.
Q: What do you get when you join a three quarter male with a three quarter female?
Answer: A match made in Heaven.
There’s even a site for that : three-quarter-match.com
3/4? Inch, foot, millimeter???
Teacher, Roy is posting about his “needs” again.
Maybe they are confusing anus with AINOs,
….“Americans In-Name Only,” or AINOs, who remain complicit with “globalists” and “Big Tech” to “radically change” America.
Steve Maxwell used his speech to introduce his new organization, the County Citizens Defending Freedom (CCDF). His organization would serve as an alliance with larger political organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and Turning Points USA, to address local infringements on civil liberties.
https://www.dailyridge.com/en/2021/04/29/hundreds-of-local-parents-and-children-attend-unmask-our-children-rally/
There’s a method to their madness. Without anatomical references to locate the reproductive system within the human body, they can continue to answer uncomfortable questions by simply elaborating on their stork or cabbage-leaf explanation.
Playing the Devil’s advocate, as far as I know, the anus and bladder are not part of the reproductive system.
At least not as I understand the process or reproduction.
But I could be wrong.
I use to think this way too. But considering the crap we have to endure every day, perhaps the anus is part of the right-wing reproductive system. Would explain a lot.
Yes, they do produce (and re-produce) a lot of crap.
Now you understand why they reject sex ed. I’ll say no more.
Poet, a very insightful comment:
“Playing the Devil’s advocate, as far as I know, the anus and bladder are not part of the reproductive system.
At least not as I understand the process or reproduction.
But I could be wrong.”
I did not know storks used cabbage leaves for contraception. Good to know!
I believe they fill their beak with them, a beakdom, if you will.
But again,I could be wrong.
Teacher, SomeDAM said “dom”!
And “sausages.”
In Victorian England, where people were so repressed that they sometimes used little skirts to hide the “legs” of tables, there were innumerable brothels. The fine English gentlemen who spent the family fortunes in these places used to refer to the women they found particularly attractive as “crumby,” meaning delectable, like a piece of cake. And because they were repressed and simultaneously were extraordinarily attracted to and loathed these women, the word came to be associated with low, vile things. Thus the current English word “crummy.”
Fossilized sickness in our language.
Same with “tawdry,” from “St. Audrey’s Fair.”
Oops. Correction. The origin in the sense of vile or worthless was pre-Victorian, but the mechanism of that origin was as described.
Here’s a working link to the material from billy Townsend:
https://billytownsend.substack.com/p/our-anuses-and-bladders-should-unite?fbclid=IwAR0GEOh10U_WUl_FfaSrXOSJSIj4s_K5nQbPQDCkuwISR8GUS6EMYhat9KU
In other news, Stephen Colbert’s fans have submitted a great many names for Glorious Leader Who Shines More Orange Than Does the Sun. My favorite of these: The Tangerine Palpatine
Get rid of all math text books with the number 69. Better yet, remove the number 69 from the numeric system.
The absurd, semiliterate fools who show up at school board meetings to wail about the appearance of the word “bladder” in an anatomical drawing will be a useful tool in the hands of the smarter ones who will use them during the 2022 and 2024 election seasons who, like them, want to CONTROL THE STORY.
Those evil Socialists (Democrats). They are trying to make your children hate themselves for being white and to hate their country. They are trying to turn them transgender. They are trying to get them to engage in perversions.
Absurd on the face of it, but we live in a country in which 77 million people voted for IQ45, Don the Con, the Tangerine Palpatine, the Bloated Bloviator, in which most of an entire political party actually believes in The Great Steal. It doesn’t matter that the story is idiotic in a country full of idiots.
I’ve never actually watched the full movie…. looks pretty bad overall. But some of the clips are on target and funny.