I won't link to the clickbait article in (surprise, surprise...) The Daily Express and the Torygraph, but apparently kids in schools aren't just self-identifying as male, female, gender-neutral etc, but are now doing so as dinosaurs, animals and in one case a moon
A quick example of whatever cobblers it is that they just made up:
Another child wears a cape and identifies as a moon. The Telegraph also reportedly spoke to a student in Wales who claimed one of their classmates had identified as cat for three school years - and would "meow rather than answer a question in English".
"The teachers are not allowed to get annoyed about this because it’s seen as discriminating,” claimed the pupil. They said their fellow pupil "feels very discriminated against if you do not refer to them as ‘catself’.”
Far from being irate at this, as I'm sure I'm meant to be (sorry Daily Express and Torygraph) this sounds like bloody great fun and its got me thinking...
if you could be anything, what would you self-identify as?
I'm going to go for a panda. Mrs Binners is convinced that pandas aren't real anyway. She believes, with some justification if you watch them, that pandas are a hoax and are actually people in mascot costumes, just dossing about.
That sounds like the life for me...
So, what are you going for then? The world is your lobster (if thats what you fancy).. fire away....
An ocelot
sounds a bit like...
The Flaming Lips - I can be a frog
Negative, I am a meat popsicle
A Sloth set on world domination if I only I could move a bit quicker and have a bit more determination
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If I identify as Boriss Johnson, will the fail pay me a million a year for making up culture war bullshit?
A friend does research on lying, specifically about when children learn how to lie, and what they do with that knowledge, she often goes to preschool to test this theory with kids by reading them Snow White, kids who haven't yet learned to lie don't understand why Snow White doesn't know the the old woman is in fact the Wicked Queen; they know, ergo she should as well, anyway, besides the point, when some-one points out a news-story based on "Children told researchers" she cites a paper from a Californian university that "found" that up to 55% of school aged boys between the ages of 13-18 in California had lost a limb, or have a prosthetic limb. When asked, the boys wrote that the limb loss was due to fighting in wars, alien invasion, or fighting with sharks.
I want to be a ring tail lemur, please.
Probably go with a tree. And just make rustling noises not in response to anything.
My wife is Irish.
Her pronouns are yer one/herself.
I am the wind. Sometimes quite literally, usually after beans.
she cites a paper from a Californian university that “found” that up to 55% of school aged boys between the ages of 13-18 in California had lost a limb, or have a prosthetic limb.
Not relevant to topic as asked but I love these stats. Up to 55%...... so could be none then?
To the question as asked. I identify as 'concerned parent'. When I see cockwombles like Laurence Fox burning pride flags in his garden and see the small but vocal minority that support that sort of behaviour, I know the UK is still not a safe place for some people, let alone the wider world with 'less enlightened' views. And I worry that it's not getting safer, in fact the opposite.
So while the OP is intended as light hearted and I take it as such (I'm part concerned parent, mixed with dog, FWIW - happy to curl up and sleep, will do tricks for a biscuit, basically here to please my owner) it's a fine line between that and those that deliberately claim to identify as something odd as a means to belittle and ridicule. Let's stay the right side of the line.
Panda video is brilliant and I think Mrs B is on to something.
Not sure what I'd identify as but according to the quiche I ate last night, I am a family of four!
The UK is a rather dystopian place. It seems as though its place in the world is slipping and it's becoming a laughing stock.
Interesting piece in one of the big German dailies on the weekend about the state of its politics and an apathy amongst the population.
I'm reluctant at times to tell people that I'm from the UK.
The UK can do better than the current trajectory it is following.
I identify as a bald, chippy, graphic designer from Ramsbottom.
I'd choose to be a grizzly bear.
Spend all spring alone foraging for nuts, berries, and other stuff to eat.
Go and have a good old fight, and then a shag hopefully.
Then spend autumn getting fat eating ridiculous amounts of salmon before having a nice sleep through winter.
The UK is a rather dystopian place.
Maybe, but this current nonsense attempting to oppress a tiny minority of people who can already find it hard to find their way in an often hostile society, along with a lot of other wedge issue stuff, is "imported" (or rather, if you follow the money, "imposed" on the UK) from other countries. It's far from a unique UK problem. Some of the States in the USA are well ahead of us in going backwards.
Sorry, I wasn't going to, but sod it... I'm posting it...
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I'd identify as a Tory government minister. Just think of all that booze, drugs, groping, long holidays, ace salary and a pension to die for.
@Mister-P, you are doomed identifying as a cyclist, the most despised 'lifeform' in the Universe.
Me, I'll be a Jedi.
Joking aside, if I had a choice I'd identify as a cis-gender, heterosexual male.
Then I'd get punched, groped, verbally abused and spat at a lot less.
But apparently I choose to be the way I am. Hey ho.
I identify as thin
a tree.
I identify as Me.
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i love little owls so a little owl or a small dog like a yorkshire terrier with an extra loud bark 😀
A cougar, obvs.
I know this thread is a bit of fun but there's a serious issue here, this entire non-story from shitrags like the Express is a narrative fabricated to belittle and discredit an already heavily persecuted and widely misunderstood minority. "Oh, if you can identify as a woman then I'm going to identify as a cricket bat!" It's straight out of the Piers Morgan playbook and it makes me come over all Malcolm Tucker.
Sorry, I appear to have Drac's sponge.
Also,
it makes me come over all Malcolm Tucker.
I had to be very careful in proof-reading that.
I'd like to identify as a Quokka, the happiest animal on earth.
However, with my luck it's more likely to be "That's him officer, the one on the left"
^100% agree. And in fact, I think the original story was actually a school wind up anyway; whether it's too sensitive a subject for someone to use it as a vehicle for wind-up or not is possibly open; hijacking it to demean and belittle the whole orientation / gender identity movement definitely crosses the line.
https://twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1671070747287011328
According to the size of the fruit and nut bar I've just demolished, I identify as a family of four.
a student in Wales who claimed one of their classmates had identified as cat for three school years – and would “meow rather than answer a question in English”.
perhaps the classmate was actually speaking welsh, but the student identifies as a person who doesn’t want welsh culture forced on the welsh, so didn’t realize!
It's such a load of bollocks! Looking back on my school days there were a couple of kids who were clearly gay or whatever through the lense of retrospection.
They were and are friends of mine. Although life takes you in different directions so they are more face book acquaintances, they are lovely people living good productive lives.
I don't care a damn about anyone's sexual preference.
I do care when certain elements of the media are force fed down my throat about how it's so disgusting and horrible that people who are gay/bi/trans or whatever, insert you're own acronym here.
- I'm far more concerned with the attitudes of those who feel it's some kind of personal threat to them personally against something that really doesn't affect them at all, now that is weird.
- One gay couple I know have adopted a young child, and knowing them, that child will have an excellent upbringing, at least far more excellent than some heterosexual but dysfunctional couples I know.
It makes me wonder as a heterosexual, why people are so afraid.
I JUST WANT TO BE MYSELF!!!
I'd happily be anything other myself.
One gay couple I know have adopted a young child, and knowing them, that child will have an excellent upbringing, at least far more excellent than some heterosexual but dysfunctional couples I know.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
One gay couple I know have adopted a young child, and knowing them, that child will have an excellent upbringing, at least far more excellent than some heterosexual but dysfunctional couples I know.
MrsMC works in adoption, quite a high proportion of adopters are gay, from what she says. They are also invariably secure, stable, loving, and very tolerant and patient with kids who have issues from their early life experiences.
One gay couple she has dealt are in the process of adopting a third, the 11th child of the birth mother to go through care, and full sibling to their second child. MrsMC will get another beautifully written card in thanks, and a stunning bouquet of flowers (which she will have to declare)
I'm fairly sure she'd prefer to be married to a gay bloke, if given the choice!
I think the original story was actually a school wind up anyway
Thanks for that link. Colour me shocked.
Does anyone know whether Muslims are planning to ban Christmas again this year?
Looking back on my school days there were a couple of kids who were clearly gay or whatever through the lense of retrospection.
There was a lad at our high school who at the time we all thought was slightly odd. Years, decades later it came out (so to speak) that he was gay and I thought "oh my god, of course he was, how did we not realise?!" (Mind you, this was school in the 80s, you'd get called a puff for talking to girls.)
I’m far more concerned with the attitudes of those who feel it’s some kind of personal threat to them personally against something that really doesn’t affect them at all, now that is weird.
It does seem to be a particular trait of the right to be obsessed with what everyone else is up to. What difference does it make to them? The whole backlash against same-sex marriage for instance, you'd think it was about to become mandatory. Make a comment about vegans and watch all the preachy carnivores descend. A bloke wants to wear a dress, well why the **** not, it's probably nice and airy in summer. A woman has a heavy tan and wears a headscarf. A rape victim wants the Morning After pill. Any of this affects them how, exactly?
These *ing **** quarterwit arsehole *s need to find a hobby that doesn't involve hating other people for the crime of existing.
I dunno, as ****ing ridiculous as they are there's a certain appeal about the platypus. Laugh it up mother****er, you won't be laughing when my claw venom kicks in.
Joking aside, if I had a choice I’d identify as a cis-gender, heterosexual male.
Why? Don't you know we are the most repressed people out there? You forgot white BTW.
An ocelot
Buyers remorse more like.
I identify as a brilliant but eccentric genuis. Sadly, not all my bosses respect that.
