Listen to the student. He makes it clear that the attempts by people like Bridget Ziegler and other haters to make only one man / one woman cis straight sex acceptable, the students still are tolerant of other ways to express sexual enjoyment. What the students are not OK with is the hate and hypocrisy. He calls her out for teaching hate towards same sex relationships and the LGBTQIA while engaging in lesbian sex and FFM sexual relations with her husband, again while demanding it is wrong to have sex out of marriage. Hugs. Scottie
As the Sarasota County School Board convened for the final time this year on Tuesday, Bridget Ziegler entered the board chambers facing a rift largely driven by agenda item No. 1: a colleague’s resolution calling for her resignation.
Zander Moricz, who was the class president at Pine View School in Osprey and now attends Harvard, said Bridget Ziegler deserved to lose her job, but not because of her private sex life.
“That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you, which is that a politician’s job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives,” Moricz said. “So, to be extra clear Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job.”
Read the full article. The clip below has gone wildly viral with millions of views on TikTok, where I came across it a dozen times last night. Watch every second.
“You don’t believe in public schools — you send your kids to private… you deserve to be fired not because of a threesome, but because you are terrible at it.” pic.twitter.com/uehU7IIGp7
I would agree with that IF she agreed that other people’s private business is their own private business. But she vilified people for doing exactly what she was doing in her own bedroom. She’s bisexual but mistreated others for identifying as lgbt. She thought this was okay for others, so it’s good enough for her.
As J is pointing out, it’s not her sex life that’s the issue here – it’s her hypocrisy. Her bisexual, polyamorous sex life is evidence of the hypocrisy – that’s its only importance to anyone but herself.
That’s it. Her fellow conservatives would kick her off the school board on the irrelevant issue of her sexual “immorality.” He realizes it is her hypocritical judgmental sanctimony that is the real problem, not the issue of her private sex life.
The bottom line is this: Ziegler’s refusal to resign her School Board seat is more than just a morality play. If Ziegler steps down or is removed, three out of the five School Board seats, not just two, will be on the ballot in August 2024.
That’s right: What’s truly at stake here is that we could vote on a majority of the School Board’s seats on Aug. 20, 2024. And that would give us a chance to have a School Board with leaders who are more interested in students, teachers and academic achievement than posturing for a national audience in the culture wars.
“That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you, which is that a politician’s job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives,” Moricz said. “So, to be extra clear Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job.”
I had to look up the kid’s sweatshirt and it turns out that “you give me the ick” is teen slang for being grossed out by someone, often for undefinable reasons.
I think it can be both at the same time. Sort of like one of our cats. She will watch the dogs play with a toy she wants. When they are outside, she’ll bat it with all her might to move it under something like a grandfather clock from under which the dogs can’t retrieve it. She can’t, either, but the satisfaction she feels is tremendous. I try to stay on her good side.
That’s part of it. It’s also racism. Private schools were rare in the US until local districts were losing the last of their desegregation lawsuits in the late 60s and early 70s. (Yes, I know Brown was 1954. It was up into the 1970s for many districts to finally comply!) And then homeschooling also for the same reason. They can say whatever they want and some of it is religious and political but a lot of it is not wanting their kids to get to know black and brown kids growing up.
Context: This isn’t the first time Zander made a headline.
The class president at a Florida high school says he wasn’t allowed to share his experience as a gay student in his graduation speech or how the state’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law will affect students like him, so he got creative.
This is not the serious stuff I normally post. But in a way it is. It is a wonderful story of a high school boy not sure of himself, a father that talks only about girlfriends to the boy, and about overcoming fears of not being accepted or fitting in. It is only 17 minutes long, wonderfully subtitled. Just click the watch on YouTube. Hugs. Scottie
Max isn’t sure about his sexual orientation until he meets Leon, his openly gay classmate at his new school. When Max is singing an original song at a school concert something beautiful happens.
This video quotes a Harvard study that show 36% percent of trans kids are sexually assaulted when forced to use the sex on their birth certificate rather than the bathroom they gender identify with. Then the video talks about how the anti-trans bathroom laws physically harm trans kids while not help cis kids to stay safe at all. It is not cis kids in bathrooms being attacked, but trans kids. Hugs. Scottie
Check out this impressive new ad — or you don’t have to — from Mothers for Democracy, a 501(c)(4) political group that got its start in Texas with grassroots protests against Gov. Greg Abbott’s rightwing extremism (just as a reminder that Texas progressives are still as pissed off and active as iconic Texas Dems like Ann Richards, Molly Ivins, or Barbara Jordan). They’re very definitely positioning themselves as the polar opposite of that other bunch of moms who say they’re for liberty but want to ban books — and certain people too.
The ad, “Thoughts and Prayers,” debuted on social media yesterday to mark the 11th anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. It’s a fresh indictment of the cliché the Right has offered instead of action following mass shootings, from Newtown to Uvalde and since.
The ad begins with a little girl at the edge of a backyard swimming pool reaching for a pink flamingo floaty, priming you to think this is going to be another safety PSA. Which it is, just not about pools, because as the onscreen text explains,
The number one killer of children in the USA … [girl yelps and tumbles into pool]
is not drowning
or car wrecks
or cancer
The girl’s distraught mom arrives on the scene, but instead of jumping in to rescue her daughter, kneels at the edge of the pool and prays, “Please, please, God, save her! Do something! Save her!” [camera cuts to a close-up of the mom’s praying hands, the blurry shape of the girl at the bottom of the pool] “Please save her, please!”
Then neighbors show up to say their “thoughts and prayers” are with her, including one couple relaxing in the pool’s attached hot tub, in swimsuits and enjoying beverages (in pool-safe, nonbreakable containers, for safety). “Thoughts,” she says, finishing a drink. “Prayers,” he adds, nodding at Mom.
Onscreen, we’re shown the statistic that many of us have known for far too long:
The #1 killer of children in the US is
GUN VIOLENCE
The ad closes with an overhead shot of the backyard, the scene centered on the blurred image of the little mannequin in a red dress at the bottom of the pool, over which the final text unscrolls:
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS
ARE MEANINGLESS
WHEN YOU CAN ACT
The scene blacks out and transitions to a white screen and the words “Act Now. Demand Gun Reform,” with a link to Mothers For Democracy’s gun reform page, which calls out “the hypocrisy of people who say ‘thoughts and prayers’ while going on with their lives as if nothing has happened.”
For the ad, Mothers for Democracy partnered with gun safety groups Newtown Action Alliance, Lives Robbed (founded by parents of victims and survivors of the mass shooting at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School), and Change the Ref, the group founded by the parents of Joaquin Oliver, who was murdered in the massacre in Parkland, Florida. That group also brought us that devastating ad where they invited prominent gun advocates to address an empty “graduation” ceremony for the “lost class” — all the kids killed by guns, who’ll never see their own commencement ceremonies.
The ad is the first of what Moms for Democracy hopes will be six for the 2024 campaign season, on “crucial issues that directly impact families” that also include “quality public schools, climate action, healthcare access, LGBTQ+ rights, and voting protections.” Yep, they have an ActBlue link if you want to help; I gave a few of my Ameros just to find out what with they come up with for climate. On Xitter, the group noted that it didn’t use an ad agency, but rather that it (and we assume the partners?) developed the ad with an in-house team, which is pretty cool, too.
As the circle of Americans directly affected by gun violence expands, year by year, there are more and more people who desperately want the madness to end. They include some impressively talented communicators, like Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Florida), who started campaigning for gun control when he was 15 and horrified by Sandy Hook — and is a survivor himself, having witnessed a 2016 shooting in Orlando. Together, we can all make sure we’re heard.
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Earlier I posted the version that had no words. I wished I had known this version was out there. It is about the same except this one has the words in the book, which are also on the screen for you to read along. Plus the CC is really good. Again this is based on real life. His young boy knew in his heart who he was and was not. In real life as in the book, the dad helped his son by accepting who he is, not trying to make him what he is not. I don’t know if the boy is trans, but I have seen him dressed in princess outfits with more boyish style hair and no real makeup. So he maybe gender fluid or nonbinary. It doesn’t matter, accepting young people even children for who they are and giving them the chance to grow and be, to learn for themselves who they are is what is important. Oh, I should mention this inoffensive book about a dad’s love helping him accept his son is one of the most banned books and a constant target of the fundamentalist Christians and maga right wing crowd. Mom’s for liberty and Mom’s of TikTok hate this book and claim it is porn and teaches sexualization of little kids. Hugs. Scottie
My Shadow Is Pink, by Scott Stuart, is a beautifully written rhyming story that touches on the subjects of gender identity, self acceptance, equality and diversity.
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Kian Lilien as: Boy Ryan Andes as: Dad Music: Celebration by Stephen Keech (license: YHDSPSYOVPCDAOSJ)
In honor of Pride Month, Director and Writer Steven Hunter and Producer Max Sachar present their Pixar SparkShort, Out. A short film in celebration of family, love, a rambunctious little dog, and so much more. Out is now streaming on #DisneyPlus. #DisneyPlusPride
There are no spoken words, just a lot of emotions expressed. A grand short animated movie. Be the change you want to see, be the person standing up for equality and the right to be who you are. Hugs. Scottie
My Shadow is Pink is about a young boy, born with a pink shadow that loves princess, dresses & “things not for boys”. This is a story of daring to be different, and having the courage to be true to yourself.
Created by Scott Stuart.
The picture book “My Shadow is Pink” was released by Larrikin House in 2020 and has gone on to become a best-seller globally. “My Shadow is Purple” comes out May 2022.
