Project about women's clothing canceled because bloggers see hidden gay agenda

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The latest saga began this month when teacher Tonya Uibel sent a letter home with her pupils announcing that all third-graders at Maude Wilkins were required to participate in a Women's History Month project examining how women's fashion has changed over time.

The letter said, in part: "If your child is a young man, he does not have to wear a dress or skirt, as there are many time periods where women wore jeans, pants and trousers. However, each child must be able to express what time period their outfit is from. Most of all, your child should have fun creating their outfit and learning about how women's clothing has changed!"

Janine Giandomenico, a mother of a boy in the class and a frequent user of online social networks, posted a complaint on Facebook. By Monday, her concerns had worked their way to Warner Todd Huston, an opinion writer and editor of the Publius' Forum site.

He skewered the school and suggested that the timing of the event, scheduled for Friday, was designed to coincide with a national "Day of Silence" to protest harassment of gays.

"Pushing the gay agenda while feminizing our young boys through a cross-dressing day? This isn't your parent's grade school celebration, for sure," he wrote.

On Monday, as the Web traffic swelled and national media outlets picked up on the story, principal Beth Norcia decided to cancel the fashion show. She wrote in a new letter to parents that instead, students would draw how women's fashion had evolved.

One third-grader, Elizabeth Heisler, said as school let out Wednesday that none of her classmates had seemed confused about whether boys were supposed to wear dresses. The cancellation of the fashion show means she doesn't get to wear her red and black "can-can" dress to school on Friday.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/maple_shade_schools_tries_to_d.html

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Yup. RWN's are so goddamn stupid.

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Clearly the offended party doesn't know anything about young men. The more masculine they are, the more they want to wear a dress - I learned this at college in the course of numerous charity 'fancy dress' events.

Edited April 16, 2010 by Madame Cleo

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The well dressed man sports a European hand bag.

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The well dressed man sports a European hand bag.

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Sigh.

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Almost all men in Tonga wear tupenus. I was in third year college when I saw a few of them visiting Cebu to play volleyball. My friends and I were giggling while staring at them.

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