Putting a positive spin on it.

[amanuensis1]

I have decided that, if the film of GoF is uncanonically portraying Durmstrang and Beauxbatons as old-fashioned in their lack of co-educational status, this means that the homoerotica in both schools is rampant--and that Hogwarts is by comparison a hotbed of progressiveness and so there's even less homophobia there than we slashers pretend, in our giddy fandom brains.

So meh.

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[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Yeesh. I'm rather happy that the most oppressive thing that happened in my all-girls (Catholic, mind!) high school was watching a nun put a condom on a banana, then tell us that we should never, ever do this. It was like sex ed by passive aggression. It was mortifying then, but my hindsight tells me that since the nuns weren't allowed to teach us about birth control without lambasting it, that was the only way they could teach us to learn things properly.

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

I'm rather happy that the most oppressive thing that happened in my all-girls (Catholic, mind!) high school was watching a nun put a condom on a banana, then tell us that we should never, ever do this.

That is so hilariously brilliant XD. Mine was a Catholic all-girls as well. Except I got in trouble when I put up my hand in sex ed class and asked why the diagram of the clitoris was wrong XD.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid of the answer, but, why'd you get in trouble? Did you ask why it wasn't pierced, or something?

[notrafficlights.livejournal.com]

I asked why they didn't show all of the internal parts of it, since they showed all of the internal parts of the penis & male genitalia. The teacher said "What internal parts?" and I said something like "The 90% of the clitoris that is in the body", or something similar. The teacher then got infuriated and sent me out of the class, with detention for "talking back". Which is codewords for "the teacher is a dumb bitch who doesn't know jack shit and therefore shouldn't be teaching this". And the diagram was totally wrong.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, man, I get those codewords, I do. *giggles*

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

That's freaking fabulous. I have to remember that strategy. (the "official disapproval" one, not the condom-on-banana one.)