Gender Fluid...

What? Gender, what?

Gender this. From: Constitutionally Correct

"Two private schools in California--no surprise--have decided to undergo a "gender-neutral metamorphosis."

Apparently, this means that the staff must be sensitive to and accommodate the "gender identity" of their young elementary students; after all, the school is seeing more and more "children who are gender-fluid." Gender fluid??!!

As one "expert" noted: "What we need is a place where children can express what they want to." Oh, good, the school will be catering to the informed and mature desires of 6 year olds; that's no doubt educationally profound. And, apparently, for some who are "gender fluid," this is merely a "passing phase" and nothing permanent. How does one know??!! How can one tell??!! So, let's cater to this expression, even though it may be as ephemeral as Jessica Simpson's marriage.

One wonders whether these schools are aware of recent scholarship that seems to indicate that the gender of the teacher vis a vis the students he or she teaches can strongly impact the learning that occurs? Indeed, Visiting Stanford Scholar, Thomas Dee has published findings that suggest that girls learn better from women and boys learn better from men. AP on USA Today, Ben Feller, 8/28/06. Of course, this assumes that--not to be tautological, but--boys are boys and that girls are girls.

In addition, girls achieve more academically with women teaching them, and this is even more the case where there is gender segregation in the classroom. The same is true with boys. See, my earlier post. Of course, not everyone is thrilled with this prospect for increased academic success. The NEA and the National Women's Law Center are quite tepid about such things.

Now, if gender seems to matter as it relates to learning the ABC's, how much more does it matter for establishing society's core building block, marriage?"

Seems like you can't swing a dead loon without bumping into one whacked-out liberal nonsense phrase after another. This of course means that kids can switch back and forth whenever they so choose, keeping the grownups off-balance by professing an affinity for one gender, then another as it suits their adolescent need to fuck with adults and bugger about doing as little as they can get away with.

I can imagine me telling my father that "Gee, Dad, today I don't want to wash and wax the car or do any of my usual chores because my fluidity is out of whack."

He'd have killed me dead and made another one just like me. Mom would have been damned upset at first, but pretty soon the thought of having another baby would have calmed her down as she came to understand that any progeny of hers who claimed to feel something as ridiculous as girl one-day, boy-the-next was better off not nurturing to full size.