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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:39 PM Oct 2016

AZ School Sends Girls to Mandatory Christian Abstinence Assembly, Boys to Voluntary Dating Seminar

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/10/20/az-school-sends-girls-to-mandatory-christian-abstinence-assembly-boys-to-voluntary-dating-seminar/

Officials at Payson High School, a public school in Arizona, may be rethinking their sex ed curriculum after inviting Christian abstinence advocate Brad Henning (below) to the school to speak to students. Well, sort of…

He spoke to the girls about sex — and how they shouldn’t have it — in a mandatory assembly, during the school day, attended by all 350 female students. But he spoke to the boys about “dating tips” in a voluntary, after-school assembly attended by only 25 male students.

The girls assembly was particularly bizarre, primarily focusing on how they shouldn’t have sex, or look like they might want to have sex, or wear anything that might make boys want to have sex with them. (Because why bother talking to boys about things like consent and — oh, I don’t know, not being sexual predators — when you can tell girls to stop dressing like sluts instead?)...

Instead, the fellas were given advice on how to ask a girl out on a date, told how to get a second date, and informed that there were lots of single ladies in their school just waiting to be scooped up.


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AZ School Sends Girls to Mandatory Christian Abstinence Assembly, Boys to Voluntary Dating Seminar (Original Post) KamaAina Oct 2016 OP
Fuck this shit !!!!!!!!! SamKnause Oct 2016 #1
Or if you ARE going to go the abstinence route.. whathehell Oct 2016 #28
I would be pissed if I lived in that school district. n/t Zing Zing Zingbah Oct 2016 #2
this is bull... apcalc Oct 2016 #3
The boys "get off"? KamaAina Oct 2016 #4
Hah! didn't enter my mind! apcalc Oct 2016 #7
it sure entered Henning's mind Skittles Oct 2016 #11
And then "it's all on the girls." EEEWWWWW! tblue37 Oct 2016 #24
... RKP5637 Oct 2016 #26
Okay, who thought this was a good idea? gratuitous Oct 2016 #5
Here is another can you believe it exboyfil Oct 2016 #6
It's like magic! KamaAina Oct 2016 #13
That is so creepy Maeve Oct 2016 #21
Right up there with pulling blacks over to give them ice cream cones exboyfil Oct 2016 #22
"Girls have a low sex drive so that the planet won't get overpopulated" davidn3600 Oct 2016 #9
So... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2016 #14
Ugh. What a troglodyte. Oneironaut Oct 2016 #19
This the same premise that wraps women in burqas: tblue37 Oct 2016 #25
the double standard is alive and well Skittles Oct 2016 #10
Sure is Liberal_in_LA Oct 2016 #31
WTF? This is just so screwed up on so many levels I don't even know what to say. smirkymonkey Oct 2016 #12
I'm surprised they didn't get their asses sued for that. Initech Oct 2016 #17
Holy crap! I knew that would be bad, but before clicking the article I petronius Oct 2016 #18
The Patriarchy, ladies and gentlemen! Odin2005 Oct 2016 #20
I've only got young ones now... Upin Oct 2016 #23
Yet another of my many WTF's each day. n/t RKP5637 Oct 2016 #27
Any word from the parents wih kids at that school? Gotta be drawing their ire,,,,, benld74 Oct 2016 #30
Wait, was I just dreaming that this is 2016, Dark n Stormy Knight Oct 2016 #32
Actually, it's 1948 KamaAina Oct 2016 #33
Dec 1969 #

SamKnause

(13,107 posts)
1. Fuck this shit !!!!!!!!!
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:46 PM
Oct 2016

Last edited Sat Oct 22, 2016, 11:20 AM - Edit history (1)

This nonsense should not be allowed in public schools.

Abstinence should not be taught in public schools.

Sex education and contraception should be taught in public schools.

Teach the facts and nothing but the facts !!!!!!

If you don't believe in science and biology, get the hell out of the educational system.

I am so sick and tired of religious interference.

whathehell

(29,067 posts)
28. Or if you ARE going to go the abstinence route..
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:59 AM
Oct 2016

at least make it for girls AND boys...Fuck that double stanfard!

apcalc

(4,465 posts)
3. this is bull...
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 04:46 PM
Oct 2016

the boys get off...bear no responsibility...it's all on the girls? Total Bullshit

All children need the proper direction to act responsibly....

plus-it's got to be looney for the girls coming from the wing nuts

Skittles

(153,164 posts)
11. it sure entered Henning's mind
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 06:16 PM
Oct 2016

like all misogynists, he thinks sex is something the gals give up and the guys take

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
5. Okay, who thought this was a good idea?
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 05:01 PM
Oct 2016

The school had to schedule the assembly for the girls, arrange for time out of class, hire the speaker, pay him, and perhaps even get him to the school. That means the principal, several staff members in administration, and at least a few of the teachers, had to know this was going on. And NOT ONE OF THEM said, "Hey, waitasecond . . ."

I don't know how the school district thinks paying out a big settlement really advances their education mission.

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
6. Here is another can you believe it
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 05:09 PM
Oct 2016

More of Henning’s advice for boys and girls can be found on his website. The “guys only” section includes advice on where to take girls on dates and what to get them for gifts, along with traumatizing romance ideas:

If you have a policeman friend, this is a great way to surprise your girlfriend on Valentine’s day. Have the officer follow her to school, pull her over and walk up to her car with his ticket book in hand. “I’m sorry miss but you went through cupid’s red light and I’m going to have to give you a Valentine.” Then have him pull out a big red valentine with your name on it. She will always wonder how you pulled it off.


You know the audience is geared to middle class plus (mostly white) that thinks an interaction with police will not generate a panic attack.

Maeve

(42,282 posts)
21. That is so creepy
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:01 AM
Oct 2016

I would be talking to that officer's CO in a New York minute and that boy would never ever hear more than 'drop dead' from me again (worse, if it happened to my daughter!!!)

exboyfil

(17,863 posts)
22. Right up there with pulling blacks over to give them ice cream cones
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:07 AM
Oct 2016

Which is got to be one of the stupidest PR moves in history. You put your officers at risk on the open road (every pull over has an element of risk) and traumatize the driver and passengers.

 

davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
9. "Girls have a low sex drive so that the planet won't get overpopulated"
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 05:46 PM
Oct 2016

Did you read some of the stuff this Brad Henning guy says?

In response to a question, Henning explained that guys are sexual so the species won’t die out, while girls have a low sex drive so the planet will not get overpopulated.

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Henning says boys cannot control their sexual appetites and need girls to help them keep control by not wearing risqué clothing or acting in any way like they are asking for sex.

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Think about the fairy tales. There’s the young prince, handsome, rugged, self sufficient, the man who can stand up to the challenge. He’s the hero, the man on the white horse, and he’s looking for his fair maiden. He’s the wild one who can only be tamed by the one he seeks to rescue. When he sees her for the first time, he is mesmerized by her beauty and charm and basically turns to putty. He longs for her and is now willing to settle down to a life of love and happiness. But then… of all the dastardly things… he finds out she has been with just about every guy in the realm. He realizes his fair maiden isn’t as fair as he’d hoped. Does he want to fight for her hand or rescue her from the evil in the land? No. This isn’t want he’s dreamed about all his life. He’s been dreaming about “A FAIR MAIDEN” not the town slut. So he leaves town to continue his search.


And taxpayers are paying this guy money to talk to kids?
 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
14. So...
Fri Oct 21, 2016, 07:43 PM
Oct 2016

if the boys are hyper-sexed, and the girls aren't giving it up, that leaves only one alternative. In my best George Takei voice "Oh my"

Oneironaut

(5,500 posts)
19. Ugh. What a troglodyte.
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 08:57 AM
Oct 2016

Why doesn't he, and others like him, move to Iran or Saudi Arabia? That seems to be more of their cup of tea.

My theory is that he really hates women, so he does this to belittle them and show them their "place." He tries to get to young girls so that he can try to shatter their self esteem early.

tblue37

(65,377 posts)
25. This the same premise that wraps women in burqas:
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:52 AM
Oct 2016
Henning says boys cannot control their sexual appetites and need girls to help them keep control by not wearing risqué clothing or acting in any way like they are asking for sex.

petronius

(26,602 posts)
18. Holy crap! I knew that would be bad, but before clicking the article I
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 03:39 AM
Oct 2016

had no idea how bad it would actually be...

Upin

(115 posts)
23. I've only got young ones now...
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 10:47 AM
Oct 2016

... but I will blow my stack if/when stuff like this comes up as they get older.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
32. Wait, was I just dreaming that this is 2016,
Sat Oct 22, 2016, 12:46 PM
Oct 2016

and it's really 1947 ?

No, can't be, I wasn't even close to being born then!

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