Year 9 RE homework

[Kiwimommyinlondon]

I’ve watched DD, Y9 labour over a poster for her RE homework for the past hour. The topic is homophobia and she’s listed out the terminology they’ve been given to include - bisexual, queer, lesbian, trans etc Am I being unreasonable in thinking this is a massive waste of time? They’ve discussed the topic extensively - arguably weekly - so I’m busy baffled that she then has to create some pointless artwork for homework. I’d love to see greater focus on the diminishing rights of girls and women around the world. Sadly I dare not complain.

How is ‘Trans’ subject to homophobia anyway? It’s not a sexuality.

And ‘queer’ seems to be so fluid it can be applied to virtually anything. BDSM (even if between heterosexual people), furries, drag, cross dressing…

It’s a shame, but completely understandable, that you don’t feel able to suggest to the school that they’ve flogged it to death now.

Homophobia is still a huge issue, people are still killed in this country for their sexuality. Undoubtedly women's rights deserve more attention than they get, but you're wrong to think homophobia should get less IMO.

Isn't 'RE' - religious education? how is this in RE?

How do they include trans in homophobia?

Do they know homosexuality is same sex not same gender attracted?

Do they know that telling an effeminate boy or a tomboy that they might be trans is potentially homophobia?

relationship education, is that what it stands for?

I wonder, as a homosexual teen, how it might feel to make a poster with those slurs? it seems a bit negative to me?

Anyway, considering there is far more violence towards women from their partners, than there is homophobic related violence, you think they might spend their time teach girls how to lay boundaries and follow their instincts.

I'd actually consider quietly making an equivalent one about mysogyny - with all the sex-based insults: witch, bitch, whore, cunt, nag, bossy etc. Put on some stats about number of women killed and trafficked, percentage of sex offences resulting in conviction, percentages of women vs men in top business and government roles, equal pay gap.

Make it mirror your daughter's poster, then show it to your daughter and talk about it with her - telling her that the fact this isn't even covered in her school class shows the level of mysogyny in our own society and the wider world.

Actually, I'd probably chicken out of doing that, because I really struggle to tell my DD about dark, horrible things in the world. And I wouldn't want to destroy her confidence, and make her realise quite how badly the world is stacked against her due to her sex.

But that silence from schools and that reluctance to destroy innocence from me is why young women are giving away their rights and protections: because they don't know how important and needed they are.

I wonder, as a homosexual teen, how it might feel to make a poster with those slurs? it seems a bit negative to me? Where in the OP does it say they have to use slurs?

@JustWaking if you don't want to discuss it, you can't complain if society as a whole or school ddon't either.

My kids know my views and the ways I consider the world unequal, just as they know about financial inequality.

Girls know, because they live in the world.

I would talk to her about the homophobia in some trans groups, and their lack of respect for same SEX attraction. I might also talk about the takeover of eg Stonewall which now doesn’t really support the LGB community anymore, and started (although pulled out of) legal action against the LGB Alliance - but then my extended family includes more than one lesbian couple, so dc are well-versed in (some of) the issues they face