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Dad jailed for daughter's failure to get GED {ParentDish}
May 14th 2008 8:45PM hilarious. Parent fails to get his kid a high school education, he goes to jail. Thousands of teachers fail at the same task and they get guaranteed raises.
PD*poll: Transgendered third grader sparks controversy {ParentDish}
May 14th 2008 1:04PM Well, the article says transgenderism which is different from issues arrising from mis-assigning a sex due to pseudo-hermaphrodism. Transgenderism is where the person believes that he or she is actually a member of the opposite sex. The current thinking is that this is a psychological disorder such as people who think they belong to a different race or people who think that their leg belongs to someone else and is treated as such.
The most common form of "therapy" is to impose strict restrictions on the child... no more friends of the opposite sex, no triggers, such as certain colors, toys, clothes or mannerisms. The idea is that up until a certain age, children's internal ideas of gender are somewhat fluid and thus the child can be made to identify with the "correct" gender and made right. Similar forms of therapy were done with homosexual patients in the past, only they also got to enjoy electro-shock therapy.
However, progressive ideas on transgenderisms are designed to help the child/adult to accept their condition and help families, friends, etc come to terms with the change. There's even work being done on stopping the onset of puberty for transgendered children and then using hormone therapy to encourage the physical appearence of the desired gender. There are some negatives to this approach, including sterility.
NSFW: Austrian PS3 ad replaces penis with thumb {PS3 Fanboy}
May 13th 2008 5:47PM Is that what a real man is supposed to look like?
Prom dress gets student arrested {ParentDish}
May 13th 2008 5:07AM At least she didn't bring a rock to school. Then they would have had to call in the bomb squad.
Image of the Day: Whoa! Check Out 'Jennifer's Body'! {Cinematical}
May 12th 2008 10:49PM so hot... and then she mucks it up with those nasty tats.
PD*poll: Should dad be banned from son's graduation ceremony? {ParentDish}
May 12th 2008 7:37PM Most 17 year olds have made a similar error in judgment??? No... a 17 year old error in judgement would be something like... taking out the family car without permission. Staying up all night at a party or playing halo rather than studying for midterms, even getting pregnant because no one thought about birth control.
Raping someone is not an error in judgement.
'Speed Racer' Crashes at the Box Office {Cinematical}
May 12th 2008 7:35PM exactly. Transformers received just as much online hate and fanboy displeasure and the raving hate still goes on to this day and yet it made over 300 million in america and over 700 million worldwide ( I looked that up ). People will make up their own minds on what they like.
Beyoncé sexing up children's clothing {ParentDish}
May 12th 2008 6:39PM I find this to be sad, but not unexpected. There seems to be a fetishization of babies and children in this culture. At first the fascination was with dogs or cars but now we've turned our attention to babies and children and status symbols and fashin accessories... so I don't find it surprising at all that some "parents" would want their kids to look like/dress like them... after all, what good is a fashin accessory if it doesn't go with your outfit?
'Speed Racer' Crashes at the Box Office {Cinematical}
May 11th 2008 9:20PM undead > monkey.
'Speed Racer' Crashes at the Box Office {Cinematical}
May 11th 2008 9:18PM That's funny.. I remember a movie called Transformers last year and everyone was panning it. Fanboys hated the new "bayformers" critics and film snobs were bemoaning that Michael Bay was making yet another movie... and I remember it bombing... wait.. what was that? It was one of the most successful movies of 2007?
Hmmm, I guess you're "if you think it, it will bomb" theory works not at all.
