School in Mississippi forces Lesbian to use boys restroom

[DrStrangelove]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/18/lawsuit-mississippi-school-forced-pathetic-dyke-to-use-the-boys-bathroom/

This shit absolutely infuriates me:mad:. I'm horrified that even the teachers were insulting her. That's fucking disgraceful.

I don't even know how to respond to this. This shit makes my blood boil.

[consuming negativity]

After meeting with Holmes’ father in March 2012, Assistant Principal LaJuna Payton brought the student in for a talk and called her a “pathetic fool,” and said, “I don’t want a dyke in this school.”

What the actual fuck is wrong with these people? Who talks to anyone - let alone - a child like that, without provocation?

[Quail]

Homophobic teachers who bully their students should not be allowed to teach. Schools shouldn't tolerate any kind of bullying whatsoever, but especially bullying based on something like sexual orientation.

[DrStrangelove]

What the actual fuck is wrong with these people? Who talks to anyone - let alone - a child like that, without provocation?There's a lot, and I mean A LOT, of reactionary attitudes down here. These kinds of attitudes aren't even that out of place at the Liberal college that I go to.


Homophobic teachers who bully their students should not be allowed to teach. Schools shouldn't tolerate any kind of bullying whatsoever, but especially bullying based on something like sexual orientation.I agree. This is a fucking school. It's fucking disgraceful when your teachers are part of the problem.

[Skyhilist]

Wow, add this to the list of reasons I'm never moving to Mississippi
(another reason is that 46% of republicans there still think race mixing should be illegal)

[DOOM]

Wow you have some serious problems with homophobia in the States.
Why aren't the other students helping her?

[Comrade Jacob]

I agree with Quail, bigoted teachers can produce bigoted students, they shouldn't teach.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

They have a saying in Alabama: "Thank God for Mississippi!"

Mississippi is the absolute pits when it comes to reactionary, backwards attitudes about people and labor.

It also happens to be one of the poorest states in the Union, and is in desperate need of socialist agitation.

[Sinister Intents]

Wow you have some serious problems with homophobia in the States.
Why aren't the other students helping her?

Because the students have been taught by their parents and teachers to be that way.

[Bolshevik Sickle]

The good old South, where the spirit of the 60s reigns supreme.

[RedWaves]

It's Mississippi, why are you acting so surprised?
The entire south is as backwards as backwards gets. Alabama was the last state to end Jim Crow laws. In Mississippi it's somewhat worse, as they still think it's 18 fucking 40.


That's all that is left of the south is the attitudes. They cling onto that shit with pride, and wave their stupid rebel flags as dumb as it is since the confederacy didn't even last 10 years. Mississippi's flag is all you need to see to know you don't ever want to go there.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

Wow you have some serious problems with homophobia in the States.
Why aren't the other students helping her?

I actually think this a good question. In my opinion it has a great deal to do with the psychology of conformity and normative social influence (see the Asch experiments). I found a scenerio I think that kind of helps contextualize and grasp what happened here.


You're in a math class, and the instructor asks a basic math question. What is 8 x 4? The teacher begins asking individual students in the room for the answer. You are surprised when the first student answers 27. Then the next student answers 27. And the next! When the teacher finally comes to you, do you trust your own math skills and say 32? Or do you go along with what the rest of the group seems to believe is the correct answer?

The percentages of conformity observed in group experiments such as these are truly alarming. So, from this, I think we can begin to see sort of the deeper reasonings as to why seemingly none of the other students did anything to prevent the series of unfortunate events that happened to Ms. Holmes.

"The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act." –Stanley Milgram.

[RedWaves]

I agree. This is a fucking school. It's fucking disgraceful when your teachers are part of the problem.



The teachers tend to be part of the problem in schools in poor communities.


Growing up in Alabama, I went to public school up until I dropped out and had some of the most racist teachers you could ever dream of having. In Middle School years, they actually fired the entire administration and half the teachers at my specific school after the complaints had mounted from parents about the bullying and so forth. Our education system in the deep south was extremely broken and still is to this day. If you are rich and privileged, you can go to a private school and avoid all of this. But if you're poor, well than you have no choice.


There's a reason school shootings happen, and that is part of the bread and butter to it.


From my own experiences, I had many racist and homophobic teachers in school that were extremely religious. They say there is separation between church and school, but in the public schools I attended there was no such separation.


The reason the drop out rates and low scores are so bad in the south isn't because the kids are stupid and just hate school. There's a lot more to it than that. Instead, in the usual American tradition they would rather blame the victim than the actual problem, ignoring the problem itself.