Wow. Just wow. Parental rights or overblown faux outrage?
The NEW Pornography: Michelangelo’s David
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RE: “Parental rights or overblown faux outrage?”
Parental rights.
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So YOU believe that David is Porn? One of the most iconic statues in HISTORY, is porn?
Wow. Just wow.
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RE: “So YOU believe that David is Porn? One of the most iconic statues in HISTORY, is porn?”
Don’t put words in my mouth.
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It was framed as a question? Who is putting words in who’s mouth?
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OK, Dr. Semantics. Maybe you should take a grammar class.
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After you take a reading comprehension class.
And your use of Trump playbook page 1, accusing others of what you yourself have done or are doing is noted with a derisive snicker.
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RE: “After you take a reading comprehension class.”
Don’t need to. I’m actually a highly trained, experienced reading comprehension specialist.
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You are also a highly trained, superior brained Ignoramous, who instead of answering the question posed, decided to attack he questioner.
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In that case, the answer is No.
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See how simple that was.
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It was already simple for you, but you missed it.
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You didn’t answer the question the first time it was posed. You ATTACKED the “grammar” of it and went on some tangent that had nothing to do with the topic at hand.
As far as simple goes, you got that down pat.
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I sure hope these parents’ little darlings never wander onto some ‘real’ porn on their cell phones, their computers, TV’s, etc,.
In the 1980s I went looking for a Neil Diamond fan magazine named “Honey Dripping Time” on my computer. I had many of those magazines but was looking for a particular one that came out before I started getting them. You can imagine what I ended up with on my screen. I called my husband into the room and we both were laughing our heads off by what was available with just a few strokes on the keyboard. Obviously, it had nothing to do with ND.
These parents must be dumber than grits, is all I can say.
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No, these sculptures aren’t porn in my opinion.
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Seeing as how the internet was very infantile and mostly confined to university and government hosts in the 1980s, I don’t believe your story. Besides, I thought Al. Gore invented the internet in 90s
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YOU don’t believe my story? Oh, no – you’ve ruined my day. Snicker.
You are wrong, though, about the timing of personal/home computers – they were in homes during the 80’s, according to what I read on this just now.
I can date the computer in our home as far back as 1993 because that’s the year my mother moved in with my husband and me and we had a computer then. My mother died in March 1995 in our home, and she and I worked on the putting her obituary together 5 or 6 months earlier. (She was a woman who knew she was dying the slow death of ALS – and she wanted to make sure her daughter left nothing out of her obit.)
Now, about the part of the story dealing with seeing actual porn when I typed “Honey Dripping Time” – that is totally correct. It showed women and men doing very specific sexual things. Any kid, even back then, could find porn on a computer if they looked hard enough or if they stumbled upon it as I did innocently by clicking a mere 19 strokes.
So, sue me, Sir, for getting that timing wrong by 3 to 5 years. I really don’t see your need to call me a liar over that.
Just saying . . .
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Paywalled
But in any case, the key is age appropriateness.
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So now CLASSICAL art can be deemed pornographic? And most of those sixth graders have probably seem ERECT penises on their phones.
Like I said, FAUX OUTRAGE.
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Pornographic? But age inappropriate? Yes.
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RE: “But in any case, the key is age appropriateness.”
Plus, the parents are the ones to decide. Busybodies are not the ones to decide.
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” Busybodies are not the ones to decide.”
I would say that the parents who are so grossly misinformed are the busybodies.
The same parents who allow their children to have cell phones where they can look at ACTAUL pornography? Puh-lease.
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RE: “I would say that the parents who are so grossly misinformed are the busybodies.”
Who cares? You have no right to mock them for doing their job as parents as they see fit.
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I think there is a right to mock anyone, anywhere.
The caveat, be careful because an armed man might object and shoot you. “He threatened my manhood”…kaboom! Stand your ground…but I digress.
Apparently there was a protocol in place when studying art history via a letter which had been done in the past. It was a miscommunication in this case, but the savage breasts of some parents would not be soothed.
Vengeance seemed appropriate, despite God’s admonition.
Is there an age limit to see David in a
Florence?
And, it was a White man, so where is the Big Buck fear just because the penis might be about a foot long on a 13 foot statue. Oh, sorry, that is in CRT classes. I mix up the various outrages from the ever suffering conservatives.
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“Is there an age limit to see David in Florence?”
There is a full sized replica in the square in front of the Cathedral. And another one in the Piazza-della-Signoria. No fig leaf or nuthin’. OMG!
Close your eyes . . .
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It is not mocking someone to say they are misinformed and full of faux outrage fueled by lying liars and the lies they tell.
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RE: “I think there is a right to mock anyone, anywhere.”
Then you are a fool.
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“Then you are a fool.”
Having a right to do something – for example, in our country the right to free speech – does not mean you SHOULD do something. So your insult is pretty fooolish. But then, you have already shown that the word “mock” is not something that you understand very well.
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“I think there is a right to mock anyone, anywhere.”
Yet you mock people here regularly. SO who is really the fool?
And don’t get me started on Mr. Smith.
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RE: “It is not mocking someone to say they are misinformed and full of faux outrage fueled by lying liars and the lies they tell.”
You are the one who won’t accept that the parents have rights. Perhaps you are the one who is misinformed and full of faux outrage.
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Parents do have rights. HOWEVER, in this instance, the parents went way overboard. If you are paying for a liberal arts education, and your youngster is in the 6th grade, the outrage makes no sense. – IMO
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I fail to see why it was necessary to expose full nudity sculptures to grade school kids who have no course work or interest in Michelangelo or Renaissance art of the 1400-1500s. The principal, the captain, who approved it should be fired. It’s inappropriate and unnecessary except in the eyes of perverted woke.
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…”grade school kids who have no course work or interest in Michelangelo or Renaissance art of the 1400-1500s.”
TO being wtih, they are 6th graders. Not exactly “grade school”.
AND, from the school’s website …“training the minds and improving the hearts of young people through a content-rich classical education in the liberal arts and sciences, with instruction in the principles of moral character and civic virtue.”
AND, The school’s website defines “classical education,” as “the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty.”
And to refer to one of the most iconic pieces of art as being part of a “perverted woke” agenda is the highest form of idiocracy.
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RE: “AND, The school’s website defines ‘classical education,’ as ‘the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty.'”
Children must learn to read and write before they can pursue truth, goodness and beauty. Can you tell us how Michelangelo’s David exemplifies those ideals?
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If 6th graders in a PRIVATE school (following the illiberal education standards of Hillman College) can’t read or write, then the parents are showing their outrage at the wrong arena.
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And if you think Michelangelo’s David is not a thing of beauty, then I can’t help you.
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“Children must learn to read and write before they can pursue truth, goodness and beauty. ”
Another ridiculous statement.
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So what’s the difference between exposing grade school kids to this or bringing in a full nude male model to prance around the class?
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Having YOU prance in nude would be a crime. Showing student receiving a liberal arts education an iconic statue is education.
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RE: “So what’s the difference between exposing grade school kids to this or bringing in a full nude male model to prance around the class?”
There is no difference, really. The question is whether the children have adequate preparation to be able to discern a difference. I can’t imagine that most do in 6th grade.
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You give the youth of this country very little credit.
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“There is no difference, really. ”
Uh, that is ridiculous.
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