Just When You Thought They Couldn't Get Stranger: Purple Penguins

Gender Theory Hits K-12 Schools

When I describe radical feminism as taught in university Women’s Studies programs, one typical reaction is, “So what? That’s just a bunch of academics. Besides, wait until those idiots get their Women’s Studies degrees. Where are they gonna get a job?”
Maybe your child’s school. Katherine Timpf reports at National Review:

A Nebraska school district has instructed its teachers to stop referring to students by “gendered expressions” such as “boys and girls,” and use “gender inclusive” ones such as “purple penguins” instead.
“Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ and similarly gendered expressions to get kids’ attention,” instructs a training document given to middle-school teachers at the Lincoln Public Schools.
“Create classroom names and then ask all of the ‘purple penguins’ to meet on the rug,” it advises.

 Or maybe you could name the groups after your favorite feminist, if you have any. You know, you could just call them "kids" or "children" if you wan to be formal about it. Come to think about it, I remember being called "hey you" more than once. Geez you think kids don't know what sex they are?

The document also warns against asking students to “line up as boys or girls,” and suggests asking them to line up by whether they prefer “skateboards or bikes/milk or juice/dogs or cats/summer or winter/talking or listening.”

It would be kind of amusing to have them line up by skin tone. "No, I'm darker than you!"

“Always ask yourself . . . ‘Will this configuration create a gendered space?’” the document says.
The instructions were part of a list called “12 steps on the way to gender inclusiveness” developed by Gender Spectrum, an organization that “provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for children of all ages.”

Read the whole thing. You might also want to read the Gender Spectrum guidelines. Readers will perhaps not be surprised to learn that Gender Spectrum founder Stephanie Brill is author of The Queer Parent’s Primer and The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth, and co-author of The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals. In a 2010 interview, Brill said: “As a part of the butch/trans community, my social and professional world is very gender diverse.” So at least she practices what she preaches, eh?

I suppose this is probably in response to the fact that 0,01% of the world has a basic hereditary or developmental problem with gender (hey, nature happens, and it's not all rainbows and unicorns), but it seems gender soldiers, happy ecstatic to destroy marriage over the few percent of gays who think they want the tax deductions that come with matrimony, are also anxious to destroy the obvious sexual identification of the 99.99% who come by it naturally.