Helen Clark's Other (Soon to be Gotten Rid Of) VERY BIG Problem
A male teacher physically and inventively punishing badly behaving teenage boys, is not a huge deal to many people.
A male teacher walking in on 14 year old girls in the shower room is.
Helen Clark will sack David Benson-Pope from Cabinet, unless he resigns first.
Was Rodney Hide right to raise questions about Benson-Pope's behavior? I think few would doubt it, following the latest revelations.
posted by Trevor Loudon at
2/27/2006 08:24:00 PM
8 Comments:
Hang on a minuite mate.
Are we so politically correct that a male school teacher can't take responsibility for teenage girls anymore? But how can this teacher do his job if his authority is subverted by the missused power of woman's space?
Nobody is saying he's some kind of sexual pervert. Indeed, from all I've seen the "crime" is unstated. The allegation is merely that he broke a politically correct taboo. A professional adult woman in his place would make this a non-issue. It's only wrong because political correctness tells us so; because he's a bloke.
That's the truth of it. But we are so much under the PC spell that the attackers ignore it, the defenders cannot defend with it, and the bystanders can't see through it.
Benson Pope is still a prick, don't get me wrong. All I'm saying is the PC brigade has put friendly-fire rounds into its very own Minister. So don't be too happy about it because the PC brigade is still out there and still armed and still aiming for the Not PC.
I think Clark will spin this out as long as possible. It is a very convenient diversion from her fraudulent election spending.
Rick, a male teacher walking in on semi naked teenage girls has nothing to do with PCism. That kind of thing has always been unacceptable and will be long after PCism is history. Would you like a a 45 year old techer walking in on your 14 year old daughter when she's taking a shower?
No doubt you're right that this item subsumed by PC has earlier origins- indeed it may be itself the origion of PC. But for being an older stupidity it's no less'a one.
I'll answer your question by pointing out that the teacher did not enter the cubicles but called to the girls from the other side of a screen wall.
I think everybody is too quickly forgetting what right little pricks boys and girls on school camps can be. You want them out of bed early and, to that end, you want lights out early. You need to get everyone organised to do what you need them to do. The guy running the camp needs to be in charge, the entire camp cannot be allowed to be ruined by little tarts who can take showers until doomsday or eternal refuge by hiding in the dorm bedroom.
If they get away with it on the first day that's the whole camp blown and what the girls have learned from camp and apply to their lives is that ultimate power in our society has its source in the power of a woman's body over all men.
A responsible campmaster only needs to do what Mr Pope did once, and effectively, to break that bullshit spell once and for all. Authority that must endure brinkmanship (he can never win) with 14yo girls is no authority at all.
A paper bag full of weta's will have them moving like shit through a goose.
Probably non-PC too, but more creative! ;-)
Well...yah.
But then the ultimate power in our society has its source in the power of a wet bag of wetas...
...yeah okay...I can see a culture based on that. Good call. :)
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