Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for June 23, 2016
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Enjoy this classic Tom the dancing bug Vintage 1996 Last summer, our Merrimack , new hampshire school board adopted a policy prohibiting any school program that has the "purpose or effect" of encouraging homosexuality. An incredible tough standard but we were up to the challenge! First we had to abolish showers after gym class because they may have the effect of causing gayness. Next we fired that hunky english teacher. Teacher: But Im not gay! Doesn't matter, we don't want some strapping young buck analyzing love sonnets with our boys! Man: In our elementary schools we had to cancel reading classes - literacy only leads to independent thought and we all know what that can lead to! woman: instead of reading we'll watch the "family channel" of course just sharing a class with members of the same sex can give students depraved ideas. SO here is our new maximum class size. And, most unfortunately, we had to cancel a school address by the author of this piles language, jesse helms, for fear of the effect he would have. Jessie: ...an none'a you homos better be looking at me funny Thats a heretosexual? Im going gay!
disinterest over 8 years ago
The point is also about the nonsensical belief that there are factors which can alter a child’s development into that of a homosexual, that it can somehow be realistically “prevented”.
It is curious, how fear can lead to irrational thought. Also very relevant today.
SKJAM! Premium Member over 8 years ago
Ten years ago—some things have changed, others not so much.
Eclectic-1 over 8 years ago
Painting everyone with the same brush is a sign of cognitive closure. Life is transformation through trance formation. Those trances we practice determine our sense of identity. If one forms an hypnotic identity, then that individual is likely a soul at risk. I believe it was Sonny Bono who met with Sen. Helms and quoted Jesus syaing “unless you have done it to the least of these, you have not done it to me.” Afterward, Sen. Helms supported AIDS research. Bolling’s caricature is not representative of Sen. Helms.
jpozenel over 8 years ago
With my luck, I would have been paired up with the homeliest girl in the school.
BiggerJ over 8 years ago
“All teachers will be replaced with New Yorker cartoon characters.”