Jeez is right.

It’s just silliness.  But everyone feels the need to jump on this bandwagon I think.  I’m starting to wonder if some of them simply want the publicity.

Oh gag.  Not very eloquent, but really, that’s the physical urge I feel when I read stuff like this. :(

I am beginning to feel the need to start a movement to stop the madness(??).  Maybe all of us who are reasonable, intelligent, thinking, (liberal???) people need to band together to put a stop to this before it gets any worse. 

What are these people thinking and where are their heads?  Oops, rhetorical question, we all KNOW where their heads are!!

Happy Thanksgiving.....try not to be too lonely.  Are you at least spending it with someone?  I hope so!

Yes, I agree that it’s silliness. And people do appear to be leaping out of the woodwork to climb aboard this bandwagon. They’ve been encouraged by this so-called mandate that their leaders have claimed.

But I think this silliness has a pretty dark side. A little silliness here and a little over there. Small incidents like this one, happening in many places across the country add up to a trend and, before you know it, they effect changes that aren’t easily reversed.

These ideas and attitudes are thoroughly endorsed and supported by a lot of money and power with access to media and power centers.

Take for example Tim LaHaye who has once again joined forces with Jerry Falwell who has once again activated his Moral Majority with an organization called The Faith and Values Coalition, which relentlessly targets gays and lesbians as well as promotes “the confirmation of pro-life, strict constructionist U.S. Supreme Court justices and other federal judges.”

Falwell also sponsors LaHaye at Liberty University with a program taught by LaHaye called the Tim LaHaye School of Prophecy which teaches an eschatological approach to theology and social order.

They’re not kidding around. They mean it. And considering how much success they’ve had in swinging this nation to the right over the past twenty years, I’d say they are a force to be wary of, if not outright terrified of.

And it should also be noted that a few of the upper echelon neo-cons have been courting and working with people like LaHaye, Falwell, and Pat Robertson for quite some time, too.

Yeah, I know all about that.  And I think those people are WRONG. 

The thing is, that school day thing had NOTHING to do with gays or gay issues at all. 
That’s what makes it so ridiculous.
The thing is, I don’t think it’s wrong that they stopped it, in the same way I think it’s wrong to discriminate against gays when it comes to employment, etc.  What I mean is, I don’t approve of them stopping it… But it doesn’t seem like a gay rights issue to me.  Because it has nothing to do with homosexuality at all!  It’s just a school fun day!  THAT is why I think it’s so ridiculous.

But yeah, it is part of a fuller agenda, of course.

Personally, though, I think there should be no such thing as gender specific clothing in the eyes of the law.
In regards to dress codes… I have no problem with a dress code in a public school.  But I don’t think it should ever include gender specifications.  For example, if a 14 year old boy wants to wear a dress to school, and his parents allow it, I see nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn’t break the dress code that applies to girls wearing dresses.

I think this should DEFINITELY apply to company dress codes.  Yes, I think it should be illegal for a company to bar men from wearing dresses, if the women are allowed to wear dresses in the same positions.  (In other words, that wouldn’t apply to construction workers, who, regardless of gender, wouldn’t be wearing dresses for safety reasons.  And not to apply to uniforms which are non-dresses for women.)

The reason being, is because it’s only fair.
And it has to work both ways…

Some years ago (late 90s), I found out from a friend who had worked at the Pilot Pen company in Connecticut, that all female employees were REQUIRED to wear skirts or dresses and were NOT ALLOWED to wear pants to work!
A woman can look very dressed up and professional in a pants suit.  And straight women often wear pant suits.  So I don’t think their motives had anything to do with having a “professional” look or much to do with homosexuality, if at all.  I think it had everything to do with sexism.
This suspicion was further confirmed for me when my friend told me that when the foreign office visited for meetings, women were not allowed in the meetings.  So if a manager was a woman, she had to have one of her male underlings prepped and sent to attend the meeting with the foreign office visitors.
I don’t know anyone who works there currently, but I had heard back in 2000 that the dress code had been changed.  My friend still thinks that it was because of a lot of complaints they got after I’d made it public on the internet, and to every professional woman and/or lesbian I knew, and provided phone numbers & addresses for the company.

That said, I do think it’s completely reasonable for employers and schools to ban clothing or visible tattoos of a sexually profane nature.  I think it’s reasonable not to allow children to wear t-shirts to school with adult XXX language, and I think it’s perfectly reasonable for a doctor’s office not to hire someone with a picture of a penis tatooed on their face.
I just don’t think dress codes or heaven forbid laws, should discriminate based upon gender or sexual orientation - or a transgender status.

I would also think it was wrong if the school REQUIRED students to participate in the role reversal day.
But then, I also am against schools giving special privileges for dressing in green on St. Patrick’s Day or dressing in costume for Halloween, or whatnot.