[somemoreequalthanothers]

Inspiring stuff from the "our future leaders" department.

[Chad Fairbanks]

This is stupid.

[Guillermo]

The Homosexualization/Metrosexualization of schoolboys continues unabated.

[DeFault User]

Hayward High has no rules defining the gender of homecoming king and queen. Students and teachers consulted the dictionary, which suggests a king is male. Despite that definition, Principal Debra Calvin ruled that Angela could try for king.

There is a thread from yesterday about the governor of Wisconsin who vetoed a bill defining marriage specifically as a legal union between a man and a woman. The governor claimed it was not necessary because the current law referred to "husband and wife". Well if "king" can be a female, certainly "wife" can be male.

Words can mean whatever those in power say they mean, right? Up/down, male/female--it's relative, I suppose, if you have no common sense or standards--or--if you use the Clinton dictionary.

On first reading, I thought this story was the student body's attempt at humor, but it's not. (My senior class voted a girl who was 8 months pregnant as the "girl with the best figure"--not as cruel as it sounds since she thought it was funny.)

[GraniteStateConservative]

"We felt that once a girl runs for king,

ARTHUR: I am your king!

WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!

ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!

DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

[telebob]

"We felt that once a girl runs for king, it becomes a gender issue," said teacher Mike Dwyer, co-adviser for Hayward High's Gay and Straight Alliance. "As long as some people don't fit neat definitions of gender, there's going to be gender inequality, gender discrimination, sexism and heterosexism..."

Grrr...this is the kind of crap that really riles me. I saw this story yesterday in the Hayward Daily Moan. To parse this new PC slam is pretty easy. Every one knows that sexism is bad so add your 'hetero' and you got a name for anyone who happens to think that heterosexuality is better or more socially useful or more moral than homoism.

This a$$hole is a high school teacher. No gay agenda here. Nothing to see...move along...

The fine citizens of Hayward just elected two gay folks to the school board so you can expect much more of the same.

The ever useful idiot city council of Hayward recently gave $5000 to a bunch of homos so they could have a street party on the public dime. This at a time when the current budget shortfall is close to 4 mil for this year alone and expected to reach @ 16 mil next year.

[hunter112]

Why do we still have this silly 1940's king-queen stuff anyway? Maybe this is a step towards showing its irrelevance. Hopefully, our kids will have a lot more going for them by the time they graduate than being able to win a popularity contest based on values that have nothing to do with who they are as people.

[PPHSFL]

Something similar to this happened at my old high school. When I returned for the homecoming game this year, one of the homecoming princesses from the sophomore class was wearing a tuxado instead of a dress like the rest of the girls. A lot of us in the auidence for the parade were muttering our contempt for her choice of attire.

[Tax Government]

I seriously want a dog and cat elected homecoming king and queen, and a rat elected student body president. After that, do the same at UC Berkeley.

[GunRunner]

As soon as I saw this headline I thought, "this has got to be somewhere near the Bay Area."

Sure enough, the Oakland paper pulled up.

What's in the water over there?

[jjm2111]

Initially, senior Chris Eckert, who tried for king, didn't like the idea of a girl running. The next day he changed his mind. "How do you know she doesn't identify with the male, the king position?" he said. "I'm not saying Angela feels that way. But she opened the door and all sorts of things came flooding through."

Oh Lordy we have a future Democratic voter here.

"We felt that once a girl runs for king, it becomes a gender issue," said teacher Mike Dwyer, "As long as some people don't fit neat definitions of gender, there's going to be gender inequality,... heterosexism."

What is heterosexism?

[Teacher317]

Where's the ACLU? Isn't this a violation of Title IX, gender equality, and the all-important high school principle that everything should be equal for everyone? Clearly, one gender at the school has been denied the experience of being on "the Court". Why, everyone of that gender now probably feels like they can't identify with the "royals" and are being shut out of the chance to feel like they are part of the event.

Oh? What's that? It's the MALES that are on the short end of things? Oh, well then, no problems here!

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