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This is a thread about how we see things others care about as ridiculous. Is anyone's mind changed after reading this thread? Mine isn't, and isn't likely to be any time soon either. My son in 5th grade is about to have the big "Human Development" (read: SEX) talk in class, and it's difficult for me to accept how many other parents have such serious and heartfelt problems with the words "penis" and "vagina".
Are they pussies? Do they suffer from disease? Investigation and education is the way to build bridges to understanding between any two ideas, not ridicule.
I know people my age ashamed of papers they received as children with red ink on them -- the red was never good news. I think the color is a ridiculous fixation as well, but it's the meaning to others (i.e., failure) that carries all of the meaning that is misunderstood, not the color red (which is a temporary and unfortunate stand-in for real dialogue about the real problem).
Who here hasn't experienced a dozen of these disagreements in the last year?
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