Teach them chess instead
Want to play the most boring game on the planet?
The Scouts have been encouraged to use gender-neutral language and to drop the terms “mum and dad”. Members have been encouraged to guide children through a card game called “Pronoun Pairs”, which has been devised as a way of teaching them about gender identity.
The game uses the character of “Billy the Butterfly” who is “non-binary” to introduce LGBTQI+ concepts to children.
If Billy is “non-binary” why the fuck is his name Billy? Why not Leslie or Alex or Terry?
The game, which has been branded “indoctrination” by critics, coaches youngsters to use gender-neutral pronouns, and a post-game reflection led by older Scouts suggests other ways in which language could be altered.
This suggests “using ‘sibling’ rather than ‘brother or sister’, ‘everyone’ instead of ‘ladies and gentlemen’ or ‘boys and girls’”. It adds: “You could use ‘parent’, ‘carer’ or ‘grown-up’ rather than ‘mum and dad’.”
But what for? Children who have one or two adoptive or step parents may not want to call them mum or dad, but why does that require teaching children in general about alternatives to the usual words?
For the sake of making a fuss, no doubt.
A guide to the Pronoun Pairs game, on the Scouts website, advises adults: “By taking part in this activity and learning about pronouns, we can celebrate the inclusion and diversity we’re so proud of.
The game itself is played by turning over cards which depict Sam the dog, who uses “he/him” pronouns, Leslie the ladybird, who uses “she/her” pronouns, and non-binary Billy, who uses “they/them” pronouns. When the cards are turned, children must form a sentence about the character in question using their preferred pronouns, with an example given for Billy as “they ate a sandwich”.
When the game is over adults can talk through the lessons of the game with the Scouts.
Dear god. Have you ever heard of a more boring game in your life?
H/t Acolyte of Sagan
Diawl! How I hate and despise games whose intention is ‘educational’ — that is to say, intended to ‘indoctrinate’ — and how I hate and despise the kind of ‘educators’ and parents who inflict these on their children.
Atheists still aren’t allowed…
Now kids, you may have heard tell that there are only two sexes. That’s not true. There as many as there are letters in the alphabet; in fact all the alphabets put together. LGBTQIA+XYZ etc plus everything in the Greek, Russian etc alphabets too. Probably as many as there are characters in Chinese. Anyway, chuck them all in as well.
That’s got that sorted.
Well, of course, it’s indoctrination. A totalizing worldview can allow nothing except that which furthers the cause. Every game (or book, song, movie, etc.) has to at least indirectly work against the hegemonic status quo, and an easy way to do that is to just make it be re-education masquerading as entertainment.
In the UK Billy is usually a man’s name (my father was known as Billy), but I think it also occurs as a woman’s name, as for Billy-Jean King.
Anyway, it’s not a game I shall be giving my grandchildren, and no, I haven’t heard of a more boring game.
Athel, it’s Billie Jean King, just as with Billies Piper and Eilish.
Again we see how these letters contradict each other. You can’t be non-binary without a binary, but the T insist it is a spectrum…except for some reason they are extremely binary about their spectrum. Some of them call themselves gender fluid, but even then it seems to be boy one day and girl the next…not 3/4 boy and 1/4 girl or half and half. The non-binary are the ones who are in the half-and-half, and yet strangely they all seem to be binary, too.
All the ‘non-binary’ people I know seem to be presenting as the opposite sex, or as their sex with only pronouns changed, so they can be ‘special’. Without the binary, the T and the NB are meaningless. Without the binary, they would not be able to change sex, and being non-binary wouldn’t be any different from the rest of us (which it isn’t, mostly, except for the insistence on specialized pronouns).
It’s allllllll about being special.
That’s so obvious, and so laughable, yet all these adult institutions and parties take it deadly-seriously.
I wouldn’t have thought that sex education would be in Scouting’s remit, which it is as soon as you’re talking about “LGB.” But at the sime time you’re bringing in the T, which is laced with toxic homophobia, so I wouldn’t trust any explanation of sexual orientation that is trying to have it make sense with “gender identity” at the same time. The T – led forced teaming slant is going to result in a distorted view of what sexual orientation is because it’s going to be taught as gender based rather than sex based, which means teaching about such things as lady-dick, and “men” who have periods and give birth, all at the expense of girls, women, lesbians, and gays. Some “inclusion.” No, thank you. HELL NO THANK YOU!