November 2, 2010 It used to be that contributing to the delinquency of a minor was a criminal offense. Now it's part of the school curriculum. by David Richards (for henrymakow.com) Recently I worked as a teaching assistant in my old primary school, here in Warwickshire UK, helping 7-8 year olds. It was my first time back since I was a child. I found the atmosphere to be one of paranoia. It was very quiet, full of stifled laughs and fear. I saw room after room full of identically dressed, bored children ruled by disciplinarians. What I found most shocking was how the school alienated boys. It was overt and disgusting. The boys in class were buzzing with energy, desperate to do something physical or practical. Instead they were burdened with menial tasks: endless writing, math exercises, drawings. Their blood was boiling. As a helper, I had to deal with the 'troubled' children, i.e. a table of six boys. The girls on the other hand followed every order like robots and were rewarded with stickers. The boys were disciplined and humiliated for being boys. BILL'S NEW FROCK My outrage peaked during 'reading hour' when I was ordered to read 'Bill's New Frock' by Anne Fine to the boys. I picked up the book. It was about 100 pages in length. The front cover was a picture of a boy wearing a pink dress. I turned the book over to find this quote, 'A gloriously feminist romp... The result is a gem. Don't miss it.' Chris Powling, Times Educational Supplement. Kids absorb information like sponges at that age. They are incredibly naïve and trusting. The boys didn't like their teacher, but I joked with them and acted like their friend. They looked up to me. This book teaches boys to see the world through girls' eyes. The protagonist Bill wakes up one morning to find everyone treating him like a girl. His mother dresses him in a pink dress and he has to wear it to school. The novel teaches a series of feminist lessons. For instance, the class read the fairy tale Rapunzel. Bill is ordered to read the princess's lines. He complies but halfway through protests to the teacher: 'I don't see why Rapunzel just has to sit and wait for the prince to come along and rescue her. Why couldn't she plan her own escape? Why didn't she cut off all her lovely hair herself, and braid it into a rope, and knot the rope to something, and then slide down it? Why did she have to just sit there and waste fifteen years waiting for the prince?' So Rapunzel was not imprisoned by the witch but by her dependence on men. Bill is also traumatized to find that he cannot play football because he is a girl. The boys take up the whole playground playing while the girls must sit at the edge of the playground. Bill tries to get involved: 'The footballers gathered in a circle around him. They didn't look at all pleased at this interruption of the game. In fact, they look rather menacing, all standing there with narrowed eyes, scowling. If this was the sort of the reception the girls had come to expect, no wonder they didn't stray far from the railings. No wonder they didn't ask to play.' The message is clear: doing anything physical and aggressive, i.e. natural to boys, is intrinsically cruel. FEMININE CLOTHING A BURDEN Incredibly, five pages are spent illustrating the impracticality of dresses. Bill is asked to carry many objects BUT without pockets in his frock he can't balance them all. He drops everything and makes a big mess. Afterwards he vents his frustration on the dress: 'He couldn't help muttering something quite rude, and quiet loudly, about the sort of person who would design a pretty pink frock with no pockets, and expect other people to go around wearing it.' The pink dress is portrayed like shackles around a slave's feet. In another part, it rains during lunchtime and the children have to stay inside and read comics. Bill is given a girls comic and is very upset. He hates girls' comics. He starts reading the stories including one 'about the brave gypsy girl who led her lame pony carefully at night through a dangerous war zone.' To his surprise he starts to enjoy it and in the end is reluctant to swap for a boys' comic. The boys are being asked: How do you know you will not enjoy girls activities until you try them? I had no desire to spoon feed the children this propaganda, so I read little parts of the story in between asking them about football, which they already seem to recognize as the only outlet left for masculinity. But apart from a little fidgeting, they listened intently and followed the story and presumably accepted the feminist lessons. I saw enough to believe this form of indoctrination will have an effect. I finished the reading hour by telling the boys to never wear a dress. I decided to leave the school at the end of the week. CONCLUSION "Bill's New Frock" works on many levels: 1) To brainwash children that girls are oppressed from birth. 2) To tell children that gender is a purely sociological phenomenon. 3) To expose children to gender confusion. By the time school finishes Bill has dirtied his frock beyond recognition. When he gets home, his Mother takes the frock off, scolding him for ruining it. De-frocked, Bill is once again perceived as a boy. He is delighted: 'He was a boy! Some people might have said that he could have done with a bit of a haircut... But he was definitely a boy. Never in his whole life had Bill felt such relief.' The story ends, and we are left in no doubt how agonizing it is to be a girl. Imagine the effect of this book on girls! Why would loving parents send their sons and daughters to such a place? ---- Makow Comment: The Sequel: What Happens to Bill When he Grows Up? (or to the boys exposed to this psychological abuse?) Suggestions: 1. Bill marries a strong independent woman and defers to her because she has been so persecuted. They have three children. She gets bored with Bill and has an affair with the plumber. To get rid of Bill, she goads him until be becomes red-faced. She calls the police because she feels threatened by this. Bill is taken to prison and undergoes anger management courses. His wife's lover moves in and Bill supports them and the children, while scraping by in a rooming house. 2. Bill is confused about his sexuality. Encouraged by media and school alike he experiments with homosexuality and eventually devotes all his free time to cruising for anonymous sex. He becomes a middle aged roue. One night he takes home a rent boy who bludgeons him to death. He is buried in the frock that meant so much to him. 3. As a gesture of solidarity with oppressed females around the world, Bill becomes a cross dresser and is a sensation at Burlesque Houses throughout London's West End. 4. (Your suggestion here.) --- Related - Psychological Attacks at UK Schools "Bill's New Frock" : Teaching Gender Confusion
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