Floridians Want Sex Ed In Schools

 http://www.sptimes.com/2008/03/01/State/Floridians_want_sex_e.shtml

Statistics

- Florida has the sixth highest teen pregnancy rate with 48,440 teenage pregnancies annually.

- Florida has the second highest AIDS rate in the country, with 4,960 new AIDS cases in 2005 and 100,809 cases overall.

- In 2006, Florida had 121,791 reported cases of sexually transmitted infections other than HIV/AIDS.

Source: www.healthyteensflorida.org

An overwhelming majority of Floridians, including many who describe themselves as evangelical Christians, think public schools should teach sex education, according to a St. Petersburg Times survey.

What's more, they think the curriculum should go beyond an abstinence-only approach, covering such topics as disease prevention and contraception.

( And it's about fucking time )

I, for one, am glad to see this study being published.  It's about time the lawmakers had hard evidence to contradict the fundie's claims that "we don't want none of that promoting sex in our schools!"  They may be loud, but they're a minority.  

Keep your fucking god out of my school and out of my government - that includes making laws and policies based on religion and that includes ID in science class and that includes Abstinance Only education.  You still have the right to have those beliefs, but you do not have the right to impose it on me.  And finally your voice is not the only one to be heard.  You are not the moral majority, you just have the biggest mouth.

And then there's THIS asshole!

I'm getting stalked by a psycho muslim on Shelfari who thinks we should all be stoned to death!

WTF?

It's bad enough I get assholes on actual dating sites, but this is ridiculous.

So, most of you know that I started an online polyamorous book club.  There is one very simple rule.  We talk about polyamory in literature.  Period.  There is no relationship advice, no trying to convert people to polyamory, no debating the benefits vs. the drawbacks, no bashing of any other relationship style, no hitting on the other members.  There are lots of other sites to do that in.  I did allow an introductory thread where people could introduce themselves and talk about poly in their lives, but for the most part, I want to keep this strictly about poly in literature.  Between the 500 LJ communities, the dozen MySpace communities and the hundreds of Yahoo Groups, there is no need for yet another "let's talk about poly and flirt with each other" group.  You don't even have to *be* poly to join the group, just as you don't have to be female to take a Women's Studies course in school.

We just talk about books.

So this fuckwad makes a post that includes nothing but how Allah proclaimed that all adulterators and fornicators be stoned to death for their crimes.  After some guidance from tech support, I finally figured out how to delete the thread.  But the asshole is not a member of the group, so I can't kick him out, I can't find any way to block any particular person from posting, and he's started sending me emails through the "email the admin" box and leaving "notes" (like OKC comments) on my profile.

Unfortunately, the tech support helped me delete the original thread before I thought to copy it to rant about it, since I didn't think of ranting until he both emailed me and posted a note in my personal profile (which I also deleted before I thought to rant).

But I'm going to broadcast his profile (which, for some reason, won't let me post notes to him to tell him to fuck off and won't let me email him privately) and I'm going to show everyone the email I got, since I use a 2-part deleting system for email (in the trash bin, *then* permanent batch delete when it gets full) so I still have it.

When he made his first post about stoning us, I replied that the group was for discussing poly in literature so fuck off.  Since I couldn't figure out how to delete an entire thread, just individual posts,  I then bumped up all the current discussion threads by making a post in each saying "Bump to get this above the asshole with the adultery thread" and I made a new discussion that said "Don't read the Adultery/Fornication thread - it's all about how this asshole wants to stone us to death".  I now know how to delete threads, hence the reason I don't have the original thread to post here.

He emailed me shortly thereafter with this email.  Ready?

( Fucking fuckwad's fucking email )

I really, really don't understand the idea that a person can approach me, be insulting, and when I'm insulting back, they get to act victimized.  Yes, I cuss at people and I call them names and I am rude.  But only to people who are rude to me first.  They approach me.  They visit my profiles, they take the time to email me.  But suddenly I'm the bad guy because I told someone to fuck off when he was bothering me?  And these are only rhetorical questions because I already know all the rationalizations for why people do these things.  I don't go into monogamy sites and start calling everyone there naive, insecure, possessive, mysoginists who will go to hell for following man-made laws instead of "god's" laws (the Bible rewarded several instances of polygamy, or at the very least, ignored it) or natural laws.  Those people can think I'm a slut all they want - but they can't come to my profile to tell me so.

And this fucking site won't let me block him!  Fortunately, the tech support who helped me with deleting the thread claims to have sent him a warning email about inappropriate posts in groups and to let her know if I have any more trouble with him.  So I told her about the note and the email and I reiterated that I wanted some method of blocking him from being able to post or contact me at all.

Correction?

I admit my grammar and spelling skills have slipped since I finished school many years ago, but could someone explain this one to me?

From: "Chris Browning" <hvac25000@yahoo.com>

To: joreth@techie.com CC: Subject: wow. Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:23:28 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: <hvac25000@yahoo.com> Delivered-To: joreth:techie.com@mail.com Received: (qmail 23562 invoked by uid 0); 3 Mar 2008 21:23:49 -0000 X-Ob-Received: from unknown (192.168.8.58) by mta1-7.us4.outblaze.com; 3 Mar 2008 21:23:49 -0000 Received: from web52911.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web52911.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.49.21]) by spf11.us4.outblaze.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 14B60A75F0 for <joreth@techie.com>; Mon, 3 Mar 2008 21:23:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: (qmail 28437 invoked by uid 60001); 3 Mar 2008 21:23:28 -0000 Domainkey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=4hoWi7kMv8bTy1dosfIAzjiGZjUQljrozo9RUugYNrY/gQQ0f72pYzrrQ4CLyYtn/w8ZLg5Gm944E8w84gB1wPVEwSI5yfkFNEFNPQkhOSQGhv9BJkJ327gLTJaC//2NHytVOOjjZ7czzvV6nXZKGLRQBTbiafUpzUn9FzYqcm4=; X-Ymail-Osg: J3X0Tw8VM1mRUCJQq8VHEiTWneOxRGwsckn49yNkZDJaIhOFwIvlENJnkamU0d_J9_RdttW8ie3PYPVrpAVw6vAkEWzM6w5ygmE5aJY0yKzizXNv23u5958VY48q97cCiHX0JiuJZqTPolc- Received: from [69.226.25.148] by web52911.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:23:28 PST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: 779594.28112.qm@web52911.mail.re2.yahoo.com

congrats on having the grammar skills of a third
grader.

http://7283.spreadshirt.com/us/US/Shop/Article/Index/article/2430097

you're missing a comma, you assclown.

thanks for disgracing star trek and the human race
chris

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My response:
If you would perhaps like to tell me where the comma is missing, that would help. Especially since I do see a comma in the sentence. And perhaps you would also like to tone down your corresondence, as things tend to get accomplished faster and with less hassle without the rudeness.

 

And last I checked, the above sentences could not have been constructed by your average third grader. Since I was at a high school reading level when I was in third grade, however, I will accept "grammar skills of a third grader" as a compliment.

**Edit:
I do wish I had noticed (and comented on) the total lack of capitalization in his email.