Two recent items on "diversity", one bemusing and the other chilling.
First, the comical one:(courtesy of the Globe "City Weakly")
Harvard works to be all-inclusive
When filling out housing forms at Harvard, students can check one of two gender choices: male or female. But starting in the fall of 2008 , students may be able to select a third choice: transgender . The proposal comes as part of an ongoing effort to meet the needs of all students.
Leave it to the humorless PC-niks at the Globe to report such a gem with a solemn face. Cripes, it just calls out for a certain sophisticated light hearted humor, the type the old New Yorker was good at( before it became Bush-crazed). I recall an amusing piece in the magazine on "monosexual liberation" where the punch line went something like: "we just want to be left alone"
And now, hold on to your hat( or better, your kid) , because the next item is really creepy:
Same-sex teaching upheld
It seems that if you send your little urchin to school in Lexington, this is what his teachers feed him:
Joey Wirthlin was exposed to similar material in the first grade at the same school, said the complaint. His teacher read aloud "King & King," a fairy tale about a prince who rejects his mother's entreaties to marry a princess. The prince ends up falling in love with and marrying a prince. The book concludes when the two princes kiss.
And if you, the poor schmuck of a parent, have any qualms about this, forget them. It's all for your own betterment, as the Globe piously instructs us. After all, it teaches diversity!
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