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The Global Orgasmatron for Kids

Posted on | March 4, 2011 | 32 Comments


Here’s a story that prompted Duane Lester to allude to Huxley’s Brave New World. It may seem like satirical science fiction — as if, like Woody Allen in Sleeper, we had awakened to discover it is 2173 — but it is an all-too-real fact: “Experts” have determined that what’s wrong with our education system is that kids aren’t taught enough about sex:

“Oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms need to be taught in education,” Diane Schneider told the audience at a [United Nations conference] panel on combating homophobia and transphobia. Schneider, representing the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers union in the US, advocated for more “inclusive” sex education in US schools. . . . She claimed that the idea of sex education remains an oxymoron if it is abstinence-based, or if students are still able to opt-out.
Comprehensive sex education is “the only way to combat heterosexism and gender conformity,” Schneider proclaimed, “and we must make these issues a part of every middle and high-school student’s agenda.” . . .
A panel sponsored in part by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) advocated for “comprehensive sex education” not only as a tool to combat “gender oppression,” but also as the key to achieving all of the Millennium Development Goals.

Whenever I see something like this — extraordinary statements made by someone I never heard of before — my first thought is, “Who is this person saying these things?” So who is Diane Schneider? The first thing I discovered was that she had presented an NEA workshop on gay-rights advocacy in schools at a 2010 “Prideworks for LGBT Youth” conference:


Next, I learned that Schneider is a leader of GLSEN (Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network) in New York’s Hudson Valley region:

And then, finally, I found this biography:

Diane is a high school health educator in Spring Valley New York. She is very active with GLSEN in the Rockland County area, where she is its co-chair. She is also proud of the GSA that she advises in her high school. She is an online professor and has been active with the Health Education Leadership Team for NY State. She brings you this workshop as part of her training from the National Education Association’s (NEA’s) LGBT Trainer of Trainers.

Hmmm. A bit more searching found Diane Schneider quoted in a 2009 New York Times story about transvestite students:

Typically during “Mix ’n’ Match Day,” at Ramapo High School in Spring Valley, N.Y., students might wear polka dots with stripes, said Diane Schneider, a teacher who is a chairwoman of the Hudson Valley chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. But this year, she said, “about 50 kids came as cross-dressers.”

And here is Diane Schneider’s official page at Ramapo High School’s Web site. Perhaps parents and taxpayers in Rockland County, N.Y., have no problem at all with Schneider’s advocacy. For all I know, the school’s slogan could be “We’re Here! We’re Queer! We’re Ramapo!” and their football team proudly takes the field in rainbow uniforms.

The relevant question is, how was GLSEN activist Schneider chosen to present the National Education Association’s official position on “inclusive” sex education to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women?

Think about it: Of all the problems affecting the world, America’s leading organization of teachers is urging the United Nations “to combat heterosexism and gender conformity” by teaching “oral sex, masturbation, and orgasms”? Because that’s exactly what’s needed by impoverished villagers in Bolivia, Botswana, Belize and Burkina Faso.

Meanwhile, you will be pleased to learn, in her official statement to the U.N. conference, Melanne Verveer, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (and “one of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton ’s closest associates“), devoted separate sections to “Women and Green Jobs” and “Gender and Climate Change.”

So that’s the “women’s agenda” the United States is now promoting worldwide: Orgasms for kids, green jobs and fighting climate change.

Indeed, it is a Brave New World.

UPDATE: Now a Memeorandum thread. Linked by the Lonely Conservative, Nice Deb and Protein Wisdom, and thanks to Maggie’s Notebook for pointing out this connection:

‘FistGate’ Goes Global: GLSEN Activist
Promotes Masturbation at U.N. Conference

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Comments

  • Joe

    I am all for this. I would strongly support these UN educators going to Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia and teaching these techniques immediately! Let me know how it turns out.

  • http://twitter.com/smitty_one_each Chris Smith

    Heh. Well, the important thing is that they appear staunchly anti-Christian while teaching all of the new sexual gymnastics.

  • Joe

    Typically during “Mix ’n’ Match Day,” at Ramapo High School in Spring Valley, N.Y., students might wear polka dots with stripes, said Diane Schneider, a teacher who is a chairwoman of the Hudson Valley chapter of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. But this year, she said, “about 50 kids came as cross-dressers.”

    Hey, back in the day the kids had to get on a bus and go to Times Square for that sort of stuff. Now you go to Times Square and all you find is the GAP, Starbucks, and a bunch of over priced hotels.

  • Dan

    Call me old fashioned, term me anachronistic, but I remember when all men understood that fellating another man was something SINGULARLY disgraceful, dishonourable and disreputable.

    And that any man who hankered to take it up the butt, was likewise, DISORDERED.

    But hey, now we’re all supposed to be, as Mark Steyn quipped, “cool and casual” about men making moves on other men.

  • Dan

    And how long do you think it will take for some lefty to immediately say that if you have a prob, ———– then there’s something wrong with you.

    This too is something singular.

    For thousands of years men understood that it was disgraceful behavior. And all of Western civilization understood it to be at the very least, aberrant and disordered, something that could not be reconciled with the propagation of the species, ————– but just in the last 20 years or so, anyone who still maintained the time tested, traditional view, a view corroborated by Natural Law and by right reason, ——— then that man is someone with “issues.”

    Amazing.

    And they actually get away with such nonsense.

    It’s becoming mainstreamed.

  • Joe

    And if you react too strongly against it Dan, that means you secretly crave it. That is how crazy things have become.

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  • TR

    No no no Dan, if you have problem, there is a need for us to fix it! The University of Pennsylvania University Council has recently approved university coverage of cross-gender surgery for students (but not staff or faculty). WWWS (what would woody say?)

  • Mork

    The good news is, if they put the UN in charge of this stuff, it is bound to fail.

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    “We’re Here! We’re Queer! We’re Ramapo!” and their football team proudly takes the field in rainbow uniforms.”

    Whose turn is it to be center!?!

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  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    Sex education HAS NO BUSINESS in our schools. It is an issue between parents and their kids, period. Okay, so I’m a Neanderthal…sue me.

  • Anonymous

    I would strongly support these UN educators going to Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia and teaching these techniques immediately!

    Indeed. Instead of exporting liberalism, we should be exporting liberals. It would be worth the money to deploy them to Tehran and Islamabad, especially since they’d only need a one-way ticket.

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  • http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/ Debraheine

    I didn’t want to mention Kevin Jennings, because who can prove he had anything to do with this? But I strongly suspect he’s behind it.

    I’m so disgusted by this.

  • Anonymous

    You wrote:

    And here is Diane Schneider’s official page at Ramapo High School’s Web site. Perhaps parents and taxpayers in Rockland County, N.Y., have no problem at all with Schneider’s advocacy. For all I know, the school’s slogan could be “We’re Here! We’re Queer! We’re Ramapo!” and their football team proudly takes the field in rainbow uniforms.”

    But there is nothing in the slightest to support your wild exaggerations at her classroom page.

    Are you making up all of this stuff whole cloth?

  • Anonymous

    Make it clear: That cheer is the one written by The Other McCain, and has nothing to do with Ramapo High.

    Did you even bother to look at the page cited?

  • Anonymous

    You must be new here, and also incapable of appreciating exaggeration in the service of humor and/or mockery.

  • http://www.redstateeclectic.typepad.com AngelaTC

    I was indeed aware that the author was making that up. He’s sneaky like that, you know.

  • http://twitter.com/dustbury Charles G Hill

    On what planet is it necessary to promote masturbation? It’s slightly less universal than breathing, but only slightly.

    I conclude that this is a desperate bid for respectability by people who would otherwise be dismissed as, um, jerk-offs.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NXB2XLP26NEUL6OE5S5T2JVRGY Chris

    Sleeper is a very funny movie that has hardly dated at all. It sends up the New Age mentality of 1970s California and reminds you that Woody Allen wasn’t countercultural. There’s even a comic sequence based on cloning — in a 1973 movie.

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