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AbeVigoda

AbeVigoda

Providence, RI
August 2003

NOV 18, 2004 12:33 PM

- But sometimes they just ask for it wink


HOUSTON (Reuters) - Camouflage was in and cross-dressing was out at a rural East Texas school district after a Christian legal group complained a long-standing school tradition of reversing social roles for a day would promote homosexuality.

Students in Spurger, Texas were encouraged by school officials to wear camouflage hunting gear to class on Wednesday after they called off their annual "TWIRP Day" in which boys dressed as girls and vice versa.

The cross-dressing tradition began some years back as a kind of Sadie Hawkins Day where girls ask boys to go out on dates.

TWIRP stands for "The Woman Is Requested To Pay."

But Delana Davies, who has two children in the Spurger school, complained this year that the tradition could promote homosexuality and got the Liberty Legal Institute, a right-wing Christian legal group, to take up the cause.



Rest of the story is here.
biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin biggrin

Edited to add this quote:

"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.



I'm still laughing, if I didn't know better I'd think I was reading the Onion

[Edited on Nov 18, 2004 by ThePassenger]

Cherie

Cherie

Providence, RI
October 2002

NOV 18, 2004 12:36 PM

ThePassenger said:

...complained this year that the tradition could promote homosexuality...



WTF? whatever

ImaginaryRobot

ImaginaryRobot

Miami, FL
November 2004

NOV 18, 2004 12:38 PM

bean

bean

STAFF

Los Angeles, CA

NOV 18, 2004 01:05 PM



Pfftht. Everybody knows the Lifestyle board exists in an alternate dimension, and that people who frequent the CE boards require a certain transdimensional teleportation device to get there. This device is difficult to come by, of course, which is why those of us here frequently miss things posted there.

AbeVigoda

AbeVigoda

Providence, RI
August 2003

NOV 18, 2004 01:24 PM


I searched, I swear, really I did. Or maybe I just searched the CE boards whatever

St_Expedite

St_Expedite

New Orleans, LA
January 2004

NOV 18, 2004 06:18 PM

Crap. This means that Louisiana's going to feel compelled to one-up them in the "batshit crazy" department.

"I guess you didn't see this thread" posts are the new orange. biggrin

turin

turin

Denver, CO
October 2003

NOV 18, 2004 06:33 PM

bean said:



Pfftht. Everybody knows the Lifestyle board exists in an alternate dimension, and that people who frequent the CE boards require a certain transdimensional teleportation device to get there. This device is difficult to come by, of course, which is why those of us here frequently miss things posted there.



seriously. it's two different sites.

turin

turin

Denver, CO
October 2003

NOV 18, 2004 06:34 PM

"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.



the sheer mass of the ignorance packed into such a tiny sentence is staggering!

ScarredAngel

ScarredAngel

Arlington, TX
May 2004

NOV 18, 2004 06:40 PM

Lemonnier said:
Crap. This means that Louisiana's going to feel compelled to one-up them in the "batshit crazy" department.

"I guess you didn't see this thread" posts are the new orange. biggrin


Hah! You just try and be more backwards than us! tongue

X

X

Lansing, MI
February 2003

NOV 18, 2004 06:43 PM

if highschoolers are so impresionable that an outfit will determin there life... is dressing them up as soldiars really the smartes thing to do... we all know how well guns and schools mix...

lostarchitect

lostarchitect

Brooklyn, NY
January 2004

NOV 18, 2004 06:45 PM

X said:
if highschoolers are so impresionable that an outfit will determin there life... is dressing them up as soldiars really the smartes thing to do... we all know how well guns and schools mix...



if the clothing i was forced to wear in high school had greatly influenced the rest of my life, i'd be a gay redneck engineer.

and i'm not explaining that.

Al

Al

SUICIDEGIRL

Christmas Island

NOV 18, 2004 06:45 PM

Turin said:

"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.



the sheer mass of the ignorance packed into such a tiny sentence is staggering!



It's like cross dressing has some sort of physiological addiction. The kids won't be able to stop!

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

Longpastbedtime

Longpastbedtime

Ames, IA
March 2003

NOV 18, 2004 06:48 PM

We libs don't hate all texans, just the dumb-as-hell right-wing majority. I'm sure there are diamonds in that rough... smile

Seriously, though, that's an amazingly dumb quote.

turin

turin

Denver, CO
October 2003

NOV 18, 2004 06:53 PM

Al said:

Turin said:

"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.



the sheer mass of the ignorance packed into such a tiny sentence is staggering!



It's like cross dressing has some sort of physiological addiction. The kids won't be able to stop!

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!



my, this chiffon does so stimulate the release of dopamine in the most wonderful way. I think I'll go fuck the quarterback in the ass!

Shal

Shal

Los Angeles, CA
October 2002

NOV 18, 2004 06:57 PM


"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.



OH MAH GAWD MAH KID MAIGHT CAYETCH TEH GEIGH

troglodyte

troglodyte

Victoria, BC
May 2003

NOV 18, 2004 07:09 PM

Shalome said:

"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you," Davies told reporters.



OH MAH GAWD MAH KID MAIGHT CAYETCH TEH GEIGH


It sounds like he has experience with it.

Stiles

Stiles

Oakland, CA
November 2002

NOV 18, 2004 09:07 PM

Lemonnier said:
Crap. This means that Louisiana's going to feel compelled to one-up them in the "batshit crazy" department.

"I guess you didn't see this thread" posts are the new orange. biggrin



Louisiana's hiring Ann Coulter as spokeshrew?

Vegan4Life

Vegan4Life

Djibouti
January 2004

NOV 18, 2004 09:18 PM

Texas really is a great state. Unfortunately most of the world doesn't realize it because of this kind of embarassing shit. Seriously come to Austin and see that not all of Texas fits these negative stereotypes. This is a big state with a lot to offer and many great people.

arbutus

arbutus

Antarctica
August 2004

NOV 18, 2004 09:49 PM

VeganGabriel said:
Texas really is a great state. Unfortunately most of the world doesn't realize it because of this kind of embarassing shit. Seriously come to Austin and see that not all of Texas fits these negative stereotypes. This is a big state with a lot to offer and many great people.



My impression was that Austin was something of an island in a sea of right-wing, bigger-than-thou shitkicking. That said, Austin is a great place even if the rest of the state is terrifying.

Mutex

Mutex

Atlanta, GA
November 2004

NOV 18, 2004 10:09 PM

I have hitchhiked through the pan handle, it didn't smell very good.

Dave_the_Robot

Dave_the_Robot

Atlanta, GA
September 2004

NOV 18, 2004 10:55 PM

Homosexuality is an evil thought the devil puts in your mind.

Duuuuuuuuuh

AbeVigoda

AbeVigoda

Providence, RI
August 2003

NOV 19, 2004 05:19 AM

Longpastbedtime said:
We libs don't hate all texans, just the dumb-as-hell right-wing majority. I'm sure there are diamonds in that rough... smile

Seriously, though, that's an amazingly dumb quote.



I don't hate Texans at all, that's why the wink in my post. I do hate dumb-as-hell right-wing idiots, but we even have some of those in New England, just not as many.

dickie

dickie

Providence, RI
June 2004

NOV 19, 2004 08:15 AM

Al said:

It's like cross dressing has some sort of physiological addiction.



It's true.

Rickets

rickets

Seattle, WA
March 2003

NOV 19, 2004 08:21 AM


"It might be fun today to dress up like a little girl -- kids think it's cute and things like that. And you start playing around with it and, like drugs, you do a little here and there (and) eventually it gets you,"



...said the person who has neither played with drugs, nor cross-dressing.

Slander

Slander

Dayton, OH
May 2004

NOV 19, 2004 08:25 AM

lostarchitect said:
i'd be a gay redneck engineer.

and i'm not explaining that.



Thank you.

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