#OntarioSexEdCurriculum

Have you read the new Ontario sex ed curriculum? If you haven't, you should. Why?

Because it's fantastic.

Let me list a couple things that have been introduced to the curriculum, which, in my opinion, are very beneficial and helpful things to teach our provinces youth.

1) "In grade one, children will be taught to identify body parts, including genitalia, using their correct terms (penis, testicles, vagina, vulva) and to recognize exploitative behaviours such as inappropriate touching."

2) "In grade two, the concept of "consent" will be introduced very broadly as the right to say "no" in threatening situations. This has been misrepresented by many critics as "teaching children the concept of consent," which is then in turn further misrepresented as "teaching children to consent to sex.""

3) "The concept of human and animal reproduction -- presented broadly as the union of the egg and sperm -- has actually been pushed back a grade, moving from grade three to grade four, and the first discussion of sexual intercourse occurs in grade five, the same as in the previous curriculum."

4) "In the 2015 curriculum, children will be taught to respect people's differences. Starting in grade three, they will be introduced to the concepts of gender identity and sexual orientation as invisible characteristics; other examples include learning abilities, allergies, and cultural values."

These are just a few of them.. which I will repeat, I think are very beneficial and important for our youth to learn. However... many people don't agree. In fact, there are major protests and arguments against the curriculum.. without getting into detail, those who are against it are more or less catholic/christian. 

People are threatening to remove their kids from the Ontario school board and home school them because people can't seem to read sentences word for word.. One common example I am finding is that parents are saying "I don't want my kid being taught how to masturbate in grade 6".. when if you read the actual curriculum, it absolutely does not teach your kids HOW. It explains the concept of it, what it is, but they absolutely do not have a teacher come into class and teach your children how to fuck themselves. That's disgusting, I agree. But that isn't what the curriculum is saying. 
Teaching your children in grade 3 that "a boy can play with a pink toy and a girl can play with a blue toy and that's okay" is NOT teaching your kid to be gay or encouraging them to be gay. 

Every single positive thing added to the curriculum has some counter statement that someone butchered completely from the original statement to make it perverted or ungodly... If I get into each one, you will be sitting here reading for a long time. 

I will cut this short because I can feel myself getting angry at the people who are against this.. the people who are going to limit their childrens education and development.. who are going to take them out of school and shelter and isolate them from the world and its truths. The new curriculum is really good, it will help young kids simply open their minds and reassure them they can be their own person, teach them things they need to learn to do safely to protect themselves in the future, teach them that they can say "no".. Any parent willing to take that away from their child is just messed right up and clearly doesn't want the best for them. 




side note: seriously though.. if you read the actual curriculum word for word.. the statements you're seeing the protesters saying are actually so horribly butchered. It makes me question the worlds intelligence if they can't even read or understand the words they're reading. 





sources: http://globalnews.ca/news/1853112/blog-the-straight-facts-on-ontarios-sex-ed-curriculum/
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/karyn-pickles/ontario-sex-education-curriculum-update_b_6746012.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/02/23/read-ontarios-new-sex-ed-curriculum-for-yourself/ (the actual curriculum is in here for grade 1-8 and post secondary) 

#50ShadesOfAbuse

With the release of the movie 50 Shades of Grey, I feel it's important to talk about the difference between BDSM and what is portrayed of it in the book and movie. 50 Shades of Grey is not BDSM.. it is sexual abuse. I will explain a point below as to how...

1) BDSM is actually very popular in todays society, though it isn't something commonly spoken about or displayed, it happens. There is an actual BDSM Mantra that those who follow the lifestyle live by.. it reads "Safe, sane, consensual."

One of the first scenes of the movie/parts of the book are the main character, Christian Grey, taking home a girl who is too intoxicated and changing her clothes, etc. Upon waking up, he tells her he will be watching her from now on. These are instantly signs of a power hungry, abusive person. He took in a woman whom doesn't know him, took advantage of the situation she was in, took her into his home and undressed her, exposed her non consensual body and changed her clothes. He then made her feel as though she would be watched and stalked by again, this man she has never seen in her life.

Throughout the book and movie, the woman expresses how she is afraid, how she feels threatened by him, how she doesn't want him forcing himself on her... but he continues and continues and manipulates her into thinking she wanted it all along. Ruining the whole "consent and sane" aspect of it all.

The book literally doesn't ever come to a conclusion to where the two discuss any rules, any consent, nothing. The entire time he manipulates and takes advantage, abuses and seduces with ill intentions to harm her and make her feel small, not to make her feel submissive. Like I said before, there is a difference between actual BDSM and what the book portrays it to be.

She and Christian never, ever discussed the word "no" and she often times asks him to stop, or mentions she doesn't want it, etc.

People are going to be reading this book thinking it's okay to pretty much rape a person.. They will be lead to believe that they can do whatever they want to a person without any discussion or consent.

It's a fucked up example to set for people. Such popular things shouldn't glorify sexual abuse and trauma.



source: http://www.businessinsider.com/amy-bonomi-on-abuse-in-fifty-shades-of-grey-2015-2

#WhitePrivilege

I guess being white does get you more attention and sympathy. Take #JeSuisCharlie for example.. the victims, all white, caused a mass spread of sympathy and support towards them. Which is fine, by all means, any person who was massacred deserves some kind of acknowledgment and kind words.. even given a hashtag to commemorate them..

Unless you're not white.


 What I'm talking about is how on February 2nd, a Jordanian Pilot was captured and burned alive by ISIS. What is different about this and #JeSuisCharlie? Well, upon capturing him, ISIS used Twitter to ask people how they should torture and kill him. The shocking part?
The responses. 

The responses were exactly what they wanted to hear and unfortunately, this seemed to have gotten little to no attention. 

Had this man been white and this Twitter account made to take in torture and execution suggestions.. the world would be in an uproar. However, I didn't know about it until almost weeks later. Goes to show who gets priority.

#WhitePrivilege 

RIP Kasasbeh

sources:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/isis-burns-jordanian-pilot-alive.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2939196/Was-Jordanian-pilot-burned-alive-sick-Twitter-campaign-ISIS-supporters-method-death.html

#VegetableGarden

Anti abortion activists are crazy. They use god and religion as a reason to prevent a woman from making her own decisions regarding her own body, as well as her very own future.

I came across an article today that had my jaw on the floor in utter disgust.. I'll shorten the story up to spare you the feelings I felt upon reading the whole thing in great detail...

A woman in Ireland whom has been described as clinically dead is being kept alive against her families wishes simply to incubate the 16 week old fetus inside of her. Her family is slowly watching her decay and decompose while being hooked up to machines because Anti Abortion activists in Ireland are forcing this to be done. 

This woman is literally dead. They have her hooked up to endless machines and wires giving her artificial life to spare a fetus that is the size of an olive. An undeveloped, mutant-esque, mindless worm is the reason why.

I came across a few points related to this in the article

1) According to the organ donor group, Donate Life, keeping the brain-dead woman n machines and ventilators are a huge risk to the fetus as this only  gives the appearance of life, however, it is simply delaying the natural decay that comes with death. - The baby is being kept in a body that has the appearance of being alive, whilst decaying. 

2) It is despicable and cruel. Putting the health risks of the fetus and psychological trauma to the family, watching their dead family member decompose.. it is utter cruelty to take a person whom is no longer capable of making their own decisions and making awful ones for them. 

The title of this post is called #VegetableGarden because at the end, the publisher made a very strong point that stuck with me. "Women are more than vegetable gardens. When a woman suffers an unimaginable tragedy that renders her incapable of making her own decisions, those decisions are best left to medical professionals and the people who know and love her, not clergy or politicians."

source: http://mic.com/articles/106836/abortion-foes-are-forcing-a-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-to-incubate-her-fetus?utm_source=policymicTBLR&utm_medium=main&utm_campaign=social