Reference from ljforchoice via
Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus, and that touching a person’s genitals “can result in pregnancy,” a congressional staff analysis has found.
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Some course materials cited in Waxman’s report present as scientific fact notions about a man’s need for “admiration” and “sexual fulfillment” compared with a woman’s need for “financial support.” One book in the “Choosing Best” series tells the story of a knight who married a village maiden instead of the princess because the princess offered so many tips on slaying the local dragon. “Moral of the story,” notes the popular text: “Occasional suggestions and assistance may be alright, but too much of it will lessen a man’s confidence or even turn him away from his princess.”
I want the source text for this report. For some reason this phrase ran through my head this morning, and I now attribute it to a prescient awareness of this: Sweet baby fucking jesus.
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Sweet baby fucking jesus.
I dunno if that was intended to conjure up pedophillic images, but damn, I could have done without reading that…
I think the words were assembled in my brain by the random injection of “fucking” into phrases with religious significance. I rapidly noticed the pedophilic content, and tried to scrub it from my brain. But with the new evidence of the religious right trying to skullfuck america’s youth with bullshit in the name of their cultural values, the phrase took on new significance for me.
geez, I have a pretty dirty mind but I didn’t even notice that.