Is The World Getting 'Too Gay'?

In my school system, a guy named Mr. Eeds (hell, you may have heard of him) comes to talk to us, and he brings his friend Spunky the Sperm and hits people in the face with it!.... Oh Jesus....

 

First, there is no such thing as "too gay."

Second, it sounds like your teacher has an agenda, and not a particularly pro-gay agenda. I can't imagine why something like this would be shown in a discussion about HIV/AIDS. However, it reminds me of the videos they used to show in High School years ago about drinking and driving. They'd show horrible crashes and badly injured people, all in an attempt to frighten people into 'behaving' and 'acting responsibly.'

I think it is perfectly appropriate (even necessary for public health reasons) for a classroom to talk about HIV/AIDS, ways to protect yourself, about how it is spread, but not in the context of fear. (If anything such responsible sex conversations should begin taking place at a much younger age - around the fifth or sixth grade, and continue with each passing year.)

Without having seen the DVD, and only going by how you've described it, it sounds like the intent was to cause the emotions that you're having right now: fear and disgust. I don't consider that to be pro-gay, sex positive, or anything else. I consider that engaging in scare tactics, and that's why I'd consider it wrong - not because it showed people having sex, not because it showed nudity, but because the intent seems to have been to frighten and disgust the audience.

 

I totAlly agree with you I think it did cross a line for school but then it is good to be informed about these things however I think they could do it in a much nicer way
I can't really answer the question of "is the world getting to gay" because I'm not really sur eon what you mean :/ sorry x

 

I don't think the world is getting "too gay." As long as there are gay people, awareness and normalizing being gay should be conducted as much as possible so that at some point it is not considered abnormal, unnatural, weird, or something that requires people to "come out."

In regards to the tape...sounds like it should have had a waiver signed before showing it in the classroom.

 

yup i started having sex at 13 and so did other kids in my school... and then we had sex education when i was 15? My teacher was a real douche he made me go up and talk about having sex at a young age and why we shouldnt be doing it...(only because my gf and i had kids) he got fired thank heavens or else it would have been ww3 in school that day

sorry got carried away there... um i think its normal to have that sort of stuff played n school... only concern, is why do they use gay guys as an excuse for HIV? dont straight people get HIV more than Gay People?....

 

Like many have pointed out, it might be just specific to your school.

Nonetheless though, the definition of morality has been changing with time. More often today we are also asked to challenge our notions of comfort. Why do we feel uncomfortable about it? Should we be against it just because we feel uncomfortable? How do we define morality and what are our values?

Whenever we say "the world is too something" We need to ask ourselves, what is normal then? And should this continue to be normal or should we continue to push that envelope?

50 years ago, guys holding hands on the street was "too gay".

 

I think a balanced line is the way to go. Truth is, kids start early. And the education has to happen before the unwanted pregnancies and STDs if there is to be a point to it! You educate someone so that they are prepared. Knowing about STDs, HIV and pregnancy is important. That said, you can be educational without showing porn! Back in the time when we were cave people, adults had sex in the same cave as their children, it was a natural thing. Children weren`t shielded from sexual activities in the Roman Empire and Viking Age here in Norway. The modern times came, and suddenly violence became more natural than sex. Now, it`s inflated and instead of it being natural, it`s overdone and often faked.

 

I'm not sure "too gay" is appropriate.

I believe it's just sex becoming mainstream. I think the whole information age has aided this progression tenfold. I can't tell you how many times I see porn gifs on tumblr.

For some odd reason, it's usually teenage girls who always reblog gay porn. But then again, this only from my experience.

 

I don't even want to imagine how you felt. My condolences.