I remember seeing the acronym MILF on some teen movie. Creative and comical, rated PG 13. How harmful could that be?
My 15 year old son was playing on the volleyball team. He is a very polite kid to the point that the coach told me that he told him he didn't have to be so polite. This should have been my first clue.
When the season had ended a banquet was planned. I waited for the invitation. One day my son asks me to drop him off at the banquet. I asked him why he wanted to be dropped off and not go with his mother (his father passed away two years ago.) He explains that the invitation went out two weeks before and we had to pay $10.00 for each person that he brought and now it was too late. I asked why I never got one. He got quiet. He states that he doesn't want me to go. He needs to protect me. Why?
"Because several of the boys on the volleyball team told him that they would "hit it" with his mother."
What?
I am going to this thing and speak to the coach, this behavior is ridiculous.
I get to the banquet and explain to the coach why I did not fill out the invitation and pay the $10.00
He tells me that he believes this thing could happen because after all, "boys will be boys."
I explain to him that these young men cannot survive in the real world, in real jobs speaking about and to women this way.
This is called sexual harassment and it is illegal.
Nothing happens.
I am really rethinking allowing him to play under these coaches that allow young men to behave this way because they have some genetic need to.
FAST FORWARD TWO WEEKS
Turns on that as of this morning I found out that two of these same boys that said that to my son have also been hanging out in the locker room and my son's locker was broken into. One day they stole his ipod, the next day his lunch money. He shares a locker with another kid and nothing was taken from the other child.
Gee what a coincidence.
I ended up this morning in the dean's office filing a written complaint about the entire incident. I am upset that my child felt like his mother could not come to the banquet because of the verbal abuse of the other bullies and now it seems they were the only people that had access to the locker room alone.
Sticks and stones do break bones and words do hurt as well.
How would you feel is someone said this about your mother or father?
Friday, May 30, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
Memorial Day and the Walking Dead
Last year my son and I went to Washington DC.
My grandfather has a great resting place along side the path from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Eternal Flame. I guess you had to get there early to get a good seat. He died in 1943 before I was every born.
If you have ever been there you will notice the grandness of the war hero's in statue formation.
The formation of these is moving, but as all art the viewer can be moved in many directions.
Like my interpretation of the wall the lists those young men from Vietnam was a slight turning of the stomach, somehow I was at lunch again. I got sick.
When you see the age of those boys and that they took the ones that were the poorest and least educated first.
Long ago in ancient Greece the soldiers actually voted on if it was worth going to war, they decided if they wanted to risk death and burden their families themselves. Not the government, because after all it is not those in politics that suffer as much as the average person that depends on that entire family.
I have heard this song recently, can anyone name that tune? We are in a war that will be memorialized in some of the same parks in 20 years.
The one thing missing that is the true cost of war is the loss of a child. The one thing that is missing is the statue of grieving parents over the casket of their returning child.
These statues to me sell war and honor heroes and do not represent what the real human costs are.
How about a few statues of the men that have committed suicide after coming back or the large amout of mentally ill that are continually homeless.
The walking dead!
Why aren't they honored as well?
This memorial day lets look at the real cost of war as the mothers and fathers grieve for the child they walked at night with a fever as an infant and the mentally ill and suicidal that walk among us.
All the deceased are not in the ground and buried, they are walking among us in silent sorrow.
Lets all remember them as well.
The true cost of war lives among us.
My grandfather has a great resting place along side the path from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Eternal Flame. I guess you had to get there early to get a good seat. He died in 1943 before I was every born.
If you have ever been there you will notice the grandness of the war hero's in statue formation.
The formation of these is moving, but as all art the viewer can be moved in many directions.
Like my interpretation of the wall the lists those young men from Vietnam was a slight turning of the stomach, somehow I was at lunch again. I got sick.
When you see the age of those boys and that they took the ones that were the poorest and least educated first.
Long ago in ancient Greece the soldiers actually voted on if it was worth going to war, they decided if they wanted to risk death and burden their families themselves. Not the government, because after all it is not those in politics that suffer as much as the average person that depends on that entire family.
I have heard this song recently, can anyone name that tune? We are in a war that will be memorialized in some of the same parks in 20 years.
The one thing missing that is the true cost of war is the loss of a child. The one thing that is missing is the statue of grieving parents over the casket of their returning child.
These statues to me sell war and honor heroes and do not represent what the real human costs are.
How about a few statues of the men that have committed suicide after coming back or the large amout of mentally ill that are continually homeless.
The walking dead!
Why aren't they honored as well?
This memorial day lets look at the real cost of war as the mothers and fathers grieve for the child they walked at night with a fever as an infant and the mentally ill and suicidal that walk among us.
All the deceased are not in the ground and buried, they are walking among us in silent sorrow.
Lets all remember them as well.
The true cost of war lives among us.
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