Clean & Tidy TSV 23/12/20

[SisterBliss]

Biologically there are two genders determined by chromosomes, all the other 98 (!) are decided by humans. As long as people are kind & law abiding I'm live & let live. However, what I can't deal with is the bullying PC brigade who shout at us if we ever say something innocently & without malice that isn't the latest terminology. One of the sweetest children I ever taught said 'mixed race' during a lesson taught by a student teacher; I had to be in the room for insurance reasons & shouldn't been involved in the lesson in any way but when she started to shred this boy I literally hissed at her to keep the lesson going & we'd talk about her concerns later. Fortunately the school supported him & this 'aware' person decided teaching wasn't for her, she couldn't see the big picture, she couldn't even see that he was the only Sikh in his year & aged 11 had no idea that the wording was now dual heritage.


I find them very dour & the sound they make is nails down an old-fashioned blackboard

FFS!

 

[SisterBliss]

FFS!

CBA to google toss, but I wouldn't think a man who transitioned to a female would have periods, despite hormone drugs, because one needs a uterus, cervix, ******, & a complete 'cycle' which runs throughout the entire 28 days, in various stages. Sorry if already posted.

Personally? *****=bloke, vag=lady. Dressing up/ idenrtifying/whatever is fine, but it boils down to '***** or not' - more or less. Maybe common sense could prevail, ie if it looks like a horse, saddle up & ride? At least that would be simple, less room for error, & therefore offence to the bloody 'offended' brigade, who, imo should turn the other cheek. Good enough for Jesus? No offence to the secular. Rant over, off to read the Daily Mail**


** this bit was a joke,obvs.

 

[stratobuddy]

Biologically there are two genders determined by chromosomes, all the other 98 (!) are decided by humans. As long as people are kind & law abiding I'm live & let live. However, what I can't deal with is the bullying PC brigade who shout at us if we ever say something innocently & without malice that isn't the latest terminology. One of the sweetest children I ever taught said 'mixed race' during a lesson taught by a student teacher; I had to be in the room for insurance reasons & shouldn't been involved in the lesson in any way but when she started to shred this boy I literally hissed at her to keep the lesson going & we'd talk about her concerns later. Fortunately the school supported him & this 'aware' person decided teaching wasn't for her, she couldn't see the big picture, she couldn't even see that he was the only Sikh in his year & aged 11 had no idea that the wording was now dual heritage.


I find them very dour & the sound they make is nails down an old-fashioned blackboard

I heard on the radio a few days ago that using the term "coloured people" was an insult, and these days the correct terminology is "people of colour" which is perfectly acceptable.

 

[Clothescloth]

Yes, it’s difficult to keep up with the terminology. I remember about 7/8 years ago talking to a (much younger) colleague and referring to someone as coloured, and was almost called a racist! I was told I had to say black. When I was a teenager and waiting in a bus queue with friends, we were discussing our school scarf, which was navy. One of us said that it looked black. Suddenly a person of colour(?) who was in the queue, started to shout at us and call us pink pigs. We couldn’t understand what was going on, till we realised she thought we were calling her black, which wasn’t acceptable in the early 60’s.

 

[loujareth]

Me and the hubby are late starters with family and my youngest is 20, hubbies 62! we have 3 kids and believe me, us being 60/70's kids, life at home is like treading on eggshells trying not to offend. I don't think we'll ever be grand parents- eldest thinks she a lesbian but is not sure as she never goes anywhere but works hard, my middle one I'm not allowed to say she and 'they' get upset with me and wants me to try harder and see their point of view (I do try as best I can.) And my 20 y/o came out last March, I love em all to bits of course and I don't mind but it's a struggle.

Anyway, are soda crystals really good as I've never used them.

 

[alter ego]

Many, many years ago I was at our nearest shopping mall with our daughter; she was three with all the truthful innocence of that age, she also had a voice that came up from the soles of her feet so when I saw the very badly dressed lady walking towards us I knew that my treasure would comment & that it would be done loudly. She went totally still, just like a pointer, & as this person walked passed us, so we could see that the make up was as poor as the clothes, my little girl called out: "That's not a lady wearing that green dress, it's a man". Unfortunately she repeated this several times, added that this person had walked into M&S & started pulling me towards the entrance so that I could follow. As my dad would say, if you want the truth ask a child even if you want the floor to open up & swallow you!

When I was a kid the man who'd come round selling linens etc. would come in for a cup of tea (it was considered normal back then and the poor man must have been swilling by the time he'd been around all the housewives). He was counting up what my mum owed (everything was on tick in those days) when I apparently asked why he was so ugly.

Mum was mortified but the man told mum it was okay and said, 'Out of the mouths of babes'. My mum said he was a lovely man but I can't remember him, despite insulting the poor bloke.

My much older sister never quite grasped that kids are little sponges and would often talk about things she shouldn't have in front of her children. Mum would always tell her not to but she'd still blab away in front of little ears (seemingly engrossed with whatever they'd be playing with) then be shocked when little ears repeated what mummy said in front of whoever she'd been gossiping about!