Florida High School Students Asked Questions About Their Sexuality in College Course Assignment
“Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?”
Why do things like this seem to happen so often? Why do schools need this information about their students?
FOX News reports:
College course asks Florida high school students about their sexuality in controversial assignment: report
Florida high school students taking a course at a local college were reportedly assigned to complete a sexuality-focused questionnaire that asked if they were gay and blamed heterosexuals for overpopulating the planet.
The course and sexually focused questionnaire was part of a Miami-Dade College course offered to high school students, The Daily Wire reported. Titled “Preparing for Student Success,” the course was designed for students to develop academic goals and come up with strategies to succeed in college and was offered in Miami-Dade County, the news outlet stated.
However, the students were asked a series of questions that included “What do you think caused your heterosexuality?” “Is it possible that being straight is just a phase you may grow out of?” and “Considering the menace of hunger and overpopulation, could the human race survive if everyone were straight like yourself?”
Other questions asked: “When and how did you decide you were straight?” “Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?” “There seem to be many unhappy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change your sexual orientation. Have you considered changing?” and “Why do straights place so much emphasis on sex?”
“It’s not normal. I mean, imagine if a person, anyone, goes close to your son and asks him these questions, I’d call the police,” one concerned mother whose son was enrolled in the class told The Daily Wire. “It’s perversion. Why are you talking about their sexuality to 15-year-old boys or girls? It’s absolutely sick. It’s sick.”
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First, WTF does sexuality have to do with preparing for college? These questions were inappropriate, so let’s get that out of the way first.
But the questions themselves are…strange.
It doesn’t sound to me lay some gay professor trying to convince heterosexual kids to become gay; they sound like a gay professor trying to rationalize his lifestyle by satirizing things he’s heard from heterosexuals over the years.
Reverse the questions and see if that’s not how it sounds to you?
“What made you become homosexual?”
“Do you think it might be a phase you may grow out of?”
“Have you ever considered trying heterosexuality?”
The response from gays is always “it’s not a choice, I was born this way”.
So why would they ask heterosexuals those questions if not in an effort to satirize them?
The one that really gave it away was the last one:
“Why do straights place so much emphasis on sex?”
That question could be used as an example of psychological projection in mental health textbooks.
The point they’re missing is that heterosexuality is the norm, both biologically and by standards of percentage of the population, and homosexuality is the aberration, which is precisely what makes the “reversed” questions sound ridiculous.
It seems perfectly normal to ask someone if they’ve considered changing their aberrant behavior or why they chose that path to begin with.
It’s pretty silly to ask someone “why are you normal? Why can’t you be abnormal like me?”
But that’s neither here nor there.
I agree completely that the questions were inappropriate for the setting, but I do question the charges of “grooming” without further context.
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This isn’t some innocent professor writing these questions. It is part of the never ending pressure placed on straight men to become r*mp rangers, trannys and non binary tortoises. I know, because I prefer the tan highway just like the professor., and I identify as a toaster.
Calling Gov. DeSantis: Have this man removed from any education posts in FL ASAP.
wait until they find out what they are asking/saying to the toddlers !!!!
lefty:
the world is overpopulated
lefty:
we need to bring in migrants to populate the country
STOP ALLOWING THESE MENTAL DEFECTS TO CONTROL THE COUNTRY/SCHOOLS etc
I seem to remember answering a survey on sexual preferences when I first entered college in 1973. The school asked every entering class the same questions and published papers on changing attitudes and preferences. However, the questions weren’t loaded like the ones in this survey.
“Loaded” is an understatement.
This is one of the (hopefully rare) drawbacks of dual enrollment. My hope is that the community colleges are more reformable than their higher ed big brothers.
“Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?”
“Is it possible your deviancy stems from a pathological fear of females?”
“There seem to be many unhappy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change your sexual orientation. Have you considered changing?”
“Recommending conversion therapy to minors is a crime in roughly half of US states, including Florida. Have you considered not committing crime?”
The questionnaire is not recommending anything. It’s posing to straight kids the exact same questions that gay kids are routinely bombarded with, precisely in order to make them understand how rude those questions are.
See the comment above about “normal” versus “abnormal.”
Also, it is not a crime anywhere to recommend such “therapy”. It’s only a crime to practice it, because it doesn’t work and screws so many people up.
This questionnaire isn’t seeking information; its purpose is to make straight people think, and make them realize what gay people have to go through all the time. Every one of these questions are routinely posed to gay people, and the kids to whom it was given are likely guilty of themselves doing so, but it never occurred to them how invalid they are until they were asked to answer them themselves.
So, you agree that it is a politicized* exercise to try and break heteronormative thoughts and behaviors?
Do you also think that aberrant behaviors should be normalized? Particularly ones with serious negative medical and societal consequences?
(* It’s not really politicized. It’s actually a religious question, on very foundational worldviews. And the asker is an anti-Christian, almost assuredly a Progressive.)
It’s not “politicized”. It is absolutely a university’s job to make students think about matters they’d been taking for granted, and that is what this does.
Homosexuality is normal. It is within the normal range of human sexuality, and that of many other species. And we are a society that recognizes that. Various religions may claim that acting on it is immoral, but they can’t claim it’s abnormal. And as far as I know no religion claims being homosexual is even immoral.
You are missing the point here. If the purpose of this series of questions is to encourage attitudinal change about homosexuality then that agenda should be stated up front, not disguised in a survey supposedly used to help high school students prepare for college. If the authors believe that changing attitudes about sexual preferences is necessary for success in college, then they are entitled to express that opinion, but if their goal was to modify the sexual ideation of teenage minors then they probably committed a bunch of ethical and legal violations of research protocols.
Students who can’t tolerate homosexuals will not do well in college. Changing those attitudes is just as valid and important as changing racist attitudes.
It’s a myth that “overpopulation” is one of the greatest threats facing humanity.
Quite the opposite: population collapse is a pressing concern. And to flip one of those questions around: where would the human race be if everyone were homosexual/queer? EXTINCT.
As we’ve seen numerous times before, biology and science are clearly not the Left’s strong suit.
Of course it’s a myth. But it’s a valid way to pose the question, and show how ridiculous it is to attack gay people by asking what would happen if everyone were gay.
Obviously that would not be good, but nor would it be good if everyone were straight, or if anyone were anything. What would happen if everyone were a doctor, or a farmer, or a telephone sanitizer. We’d all die, of course. That’s why we have a world where everyone is not the same.
attack gay people by asking what would happen if everyone were gay.
How is that an attack on gay people? I have only ever heard that mentioned when someone was advocating for the normality of homosexual activity.
That’s not an attack on anyone. That’s a question about the validity of their argument about homosexuality being normal.
Also, being a homosexual is NOT an “identity”, despite the decades long effort to plant that idea in the public conscience. Homosexuality might be a feeling deeply ingrained in a person’s mind, but we don’t expect everyone (at least, before we normalized this) to act on all of their feelings. The problem with homosexuality is not one’s feelings, but the actions of the individuals. And they are aberrant and a perversion, in the strictest sense of both those words.
Also, farmers and doctors are perfectly normal variations. And they perform vital functions of human life. Homosexual acts do NOT. Being a doctor or farmer is not against Nature, nor any of the laws ascribed to Nature’s God by various religions. Homosexuality is against Nature AND almost every religious stricture regarding sex (and promoted by NONE except Progressivism).
Homosexuality is not “against nature”, it is manifestly a part of nature. Those making the argument that it’s “against nature” merely expose the fact that they have a very weird and twisted idea of what “nature” is. Really they’re dishonest; what they really mean is that they don’t like it.
“Why do straights place so much emphasis on sex?”
And this is ludicrous. It isn’t social conservatives who are constantly on about sex. Not even remotely.
If he’s trying to do the turn-around (as Milhouse is stating) this is a major fail. With very few exceptions, every social conservative discussion of sex is a response to other people trying to make their sex a public thing or an argument to normalize perverted behavior. So, it’s a stupid argument.
The professor needs to be censured for religious indoctrination in class.
It is social conservatives who falsely and hypocritically accuse gays of “placing so much emphasis on sex”.
No, it isn’t, and the fact that you think it is just demonstrates the problem. It is social conservatives who imagine that every mention of homosexuality is about sex, when most of the time it isn’t. They are the ones who make it about sex, and then complain about it.
The title of the course is “Preparing for Student Success”. It supposedly about getting high school students accustomed to long-term planning for their upcoming college attendance. I fail to see how these questions are relevant even if they are clumsy attempts to get students to consider the perspective of homosexual people. Who on earth thought this was part of preparing high school kids for college? What twisted nitwit believes that in addition to picking a major, budgeting study time, balancing work & social time we need to encourage deep thoughts about how the gays perceive your common questions?
In all fairness, it’s difficult to blame any (possible) overpopulation on gays, isn’t it?
No one is trying to do that. But one of the arguments that is constantly brought up against gays is that “if everyone was gay there would be no next generation”. So the author of this is trying to come up with an equivalent strawman in reverse; something bad that would result if everyone were straight. Overpopulation is just a throwaway line, not meant to be taken seriously for itself, but just a thought experiment to show the ludicrousness of the opposite argument. The fact is not everyone is the same, and we shouldn’t want everyone to be the same. And our society is based on the principle of tolerance for other people who are not like us, who disagree with us, and who do things that we don’t like but that are none of our business.
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