{"id":133290,"date":"2017-04-17T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/can-we-include-this-cartoon-in-sex-ed-classes-please.html"},"modified":"2017-04-17T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:00:07","slug":"can-we-include-this-cartoon-in-sex-ed-classes-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/17\/can-we-include-this-cartoon-in-sex-ed-classes-please.html","title":{"rendered":"Can we include this cartoon in sex ed classes? Please?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be fair, the idea of male\/female relationships as "the battle between the sexes" is not new in this generation (it grounds most of the episodes of I Love Lucy,<\/i> not to mention Shakespeare, and is still the groundwork of so much TV today). While discussion of rape culture and toxic sexuality seem to make the modern era seem worse than ever, I wonder if, like recognizing racism as being wrong,<\/i> what we are seeing is simply awareness<\/i> of how "bros over hoes" and young men focusing on sexual scores is problematic (to put it kindly), not that it's more prevalent than elsewhen.<\/p>\n

Anyway, click through to the full cartoon, because it's good stuff. And, frankly, the "Two Super Obvious Points" should be the core of any sexual education curriculum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThe Pencilsword: No ‘I’ in sex<\/a><\/span>
\nWhat Toby Morris wishes someone had told him as a teenage boy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To be fair, the idea of male\/female relationships as "the battle between the sexes" is not new in this generation (it grounds most of the episodes of I Love Lucy, not to mention Shakespeare, and is still the groundwork of so much TV today). While discussion of rape culture and toxic sexuality seem to make … Continue reading “Can we include this cartoon in sex ed classes? 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