Brian gets his buttons pushed, and then later in the episode he pushes back at Erik. Ned, in the meantime, just sits in the background instigating both sides. Ned: 1. Brian: 0. Erik: 0.
After discussing some television, including the now-infamous "missing" Dollhouse episode, the three of us talk about some of the recent movie rewrites resulting from scripts being leaked online. Are the writers/studios handling the issue appropriately, or are they being arrogant buttheads?
And finally, in Ned's rant this week, we discuss 10-year-olds' support of homosexuals coming out.
We look forward to your comments upon this episode. :)
RC #35: Pushing Buttons
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Posted on April 22nd, 2009 at 12:36 am
I read about the House spoiler before the episode even aired. I think Entertainment Weekly mentioned it in an article about the actor earlier in the week. I don’t even watch House and I was annoyed.
Also: not to get into a debate about education, especially since I don’t even have kids, but many would argue that home schooling typically involves more “indoctrination” than the public school system. I’m not saying that’s always the case, just that both systems have their flaws.
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 at 12:52 am
Depending on what you mean by “indoctrination,” keep in mind that many of the stereotypes about home schooling are due to the fact that groups with extreme religious beliefs who are counter-culture enough are more likely to home school (or form communes) than others.
HOWEVER, the reality is that perfectly normal people home school too, regardless of theological, philosophical, or sociological beliefs.
(…and the other stereotype, of course, is that home schooled kids don’t develop social skills as well — I personally only know five people who are/were home schooled, and perhaps it’s merely coincidence, but ALL FIVE are actually MORE socially adept than anyone else I know.)
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Education is one of my hot buttons…
The way it works, is not that the child “understands” the issue if they go around without talking. But they LOOK like they do, adults see this and think: “wow, this school is teaching 10 year old kids about gay rights, that is just great” without ever giving a thought to the fact that they DON’T understand it, or even worse attributing the incentive to the children (http://www.paperclipsmovie.com/).
When I was in grammar school, the September 11 attacks happened, we all had to stand up and make speeches about what happened, we where 8; I remember distinctly that just a few days earlier, we were learning about strange things called “cheques”.
When I was in middle school all had to read Ann Frank’s diary, together, at the same time and out loud.
At 8 I knew 911 was a tragedy, I didn’t understand what a tragedy was, but 911 was one.
At that age I couldn’t understand death, religion, suicide and hatred or even how airplanes worked. Tragedy was just a WORD, and I associated 911 with the word, not with it’s meaning.
This steals from the true enormity of any event. If the first time I heard about the holocaust was when could ACTUALLY understand it, the impact on my life, would have undoubtably been far greater.
So I guess what I’m trying to say is teaching people about stuff like
this, may have the OPPOSITE of the intended result,
desensitizing, changing: 911 is a tragedy, Into: 911 is a “tragedy”.
-PBnFlash
Posted on April 25th, 2009 at 5:37 pm