Still having some trouble stringing together a rational post. When I get this way the best thing to do is look for inspiration. The story that, expectedly, caught my eye was one about a young teacher who posed for Playboy in 2011 and went on to become a H.S. Spanish teacher. This isn’t the first time a teacher has been outed for a past Playboy shoot. Students are adept at both wanting to see their pretty teachers unclothed and locating any circumstance in which that may have happened. On the other hand, I get the sense that a parent dug this 2011 spread up. Regardless, it isn’t so much about what she did as much as what the state wants to do, which is fire her.
There are a few ways to look at this. 1. The chick was wrong to expose herself. 2. The school is wrong for trying to get rid of someone for doing something legal and voluntary. 3. She was wise to use whatever legal means available to earn the money to be who she wants to be. 4. This is Texas. 5. We have a really messed up idea of sex in America.
I’m going with #5. So she posed for Playboy and some over-excited boys can pay to see her naked. Okay. How does that affect her teaching? What, will boys be thinking about her sexually, and girls disliking her because of what the boys are thinking and even going so far to talk badly about her sexuality? Umm, that was already happening.
So what is the difference? Parents have proof of her sexuality. Now that to me is the real problem. We live in a nation that has a very skewed view of sexuality. On the one hand we say it is bad to be a sexual creature but on the other we treat 50 shades of gray as literature.
Some thoughts:
- I wonder if we will ever understand why being intellectual is considered more evolved than being athletic. The body and mind have both evolved over the millennia and for whatever reason, intellectual growth and higher order thinking remains prized over physical prowess. I’m not saying I disagree with the hierarchy, but I am saying that I don’t know why I don’t disagree with the hierarchy.