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Colour palette entry for the colour palette contest. I used Lanterns, and spent way too much time on this. Hahah.
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Chair Study, gouache and chalk pastel on toned paper (10.25 x 9) by Rachel Doris, 2012
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When should you learn you have a penis or a vagina? (or both?)
I just love how when The National Sexuality Education Standards came out in January 2012, some people were saying that 2nd grade is a bit too early for students to learn about their own sexual anatomy. Maybe 6th grade would be better. That’s because children don’t realize that they have sexual genitalia until they are about 11, right?
WRONG.As soon as children are born, we start playing the “label game” in order to teach them the English language and how to explain the world around them. We point to their “tummy” and show them their belly buttons. We play the “I got your nose” game before they can even walk. So those people mean to say that we are suppose to point out every other body part a child has well before 6th grade, but skip over their reproductive organs? The ones they urinate with and have to wipe and take care of during potty training? Because that makes perfect sense.
As far as I’m concerned (and I am deeply, DEEPLY concerned with this topic as you have probably figured out), children should learn where and what their genitalia is called (vagina and penis- NOT vah jay jay and peewee!) just like any other body part, because that is just what they are: another body part. Nothing to be ashamed of or keep secret. It’s not like if we don’t tell the children about their genitalia, they won’t exist to them until we say something (Just like sex mind you- just because parents don’t talk about sex until teen years if at all, doesn’t mean the child won’t already know about it via other kids and the media).
All in all, people need to stop acting like our bodies have “secrets” and that certain parts should be ignored until “the right time.” It’s not helping ANYone.
I personally think that kids should learn about basic anatomy/puberty/reproduction BEFORE puberty hits. 6th grade was when I got my first period and if I hadn’t had a great educational parent I wouldn’t have known what was going on and would have flipped out. I think 3rd or 2nd grade is a good age because a lot of people hit puberty at 5th or 6th grade.
You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.
Erin (from A Dress A Day)
I wish someone would have told me this when I was younger.
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this video will never get old. never.
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