What are they teaching these kids in school these days??

[Amina516]

I was sitting with my laptop on my bed with my wallet next to me (YAY! Online Shopping!!), when my 8 yr old son picks up my wallet and looks at my ID.

S: Is this an ID of you, Mom?
Me: Yep.
S: But I dont understand it.
Me: Ok. What dont you understand?
S: Next to "Sex", its says "F"..but I never saw you fail any tests so..
Me: *snerk*
S: How did you fail sex, mom?
Me: *bust out laughing" Well, F is FEMALE and M is MALE. Daddy has an M on his.
S: Oh. That makes much more sense. *walks away*


Im still laughing..

[Nurian]

....*snerk*......BUAHAHAAAA!!! That's too perfect! Too bad you didn't get this on tape. You could have blackmailed him with it years later!

[LibraryLady]

Wonderful story, Amina 516

There's a similar joke from my youth in the early 1950s. I was an innocent child at the time. I only learned it about the joke much later but I did hit my Mom with this.

A six-year-old comes to Mom and asks, "What's sex?"

Hoo boy. This is the time for THE TALK!

We sit down and Mom talks about the times when Mommy and Daddy really love each other very much. Mom goes through the whole rigmarole. Then the kid puts his/her question right out in front.

"That's interesting Mom, but it doesn't tell me how to fill in the 'sex' box on the ID card in the wallet I got for my Birthday.

[Primer]

When I was about 8, my older brother and I were at the local park filling out cards for the summer parks program. I came to that question, and asked, "What sex are we?" He looked at me and said, "I'm a boy and you're a girl."

[XCashier]

Reminds me of another joke:

A first-grade girl came home with her first report card, and crying her eyes out. Her mother looked over the report card, noted the straight A's, and asked her daughter, "Honey, why're you crying? These grades are wonderful!"

The girl replied, "I got an F in sex and I didn't even know I was taking it!"

[groveldog]

I remember one time in elementary school (4th grade maybe), and there was some form we had to fill out, and I had to ask the teacher was "gender" was, to fill it out. When it was explained that it means "boy or girl", I asked why it didn't just say "boy or girl" on the form. The teacher explained that the form is also filled out by older kids (up through high school) and the older kids don't like being referred to as boys and girls.

Sheesh, reminds me of my Media degree where "sex" was male or female in the scientific term, but "gender" was something else. Ie transgender, transsexual, male, female, bi, straight etc.

When I started reading this thread I thought "OMG it's crept through to Kindy". I'm all for accepting quirks in gender etc, but that kind of PC isn't necessary in Kindy! (Preschool?)
Big Phew that the kids were just naive, and it wasn't PCness gone mad.

I'm guessing some places felt that "sex" was an offensive term, or more likely, an invitation for a giggle-fest, hence the use of "gender". However, doing any sort of liberal arts will tell you the difference!

[Bella_Vixen]

The girl replied, "I got an F in sex and I didn't even know I was taking it!"

That's why you got an F!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







*scampers off*

[Digitalpotato]

if I recall when I was 8 it was still B and G. ;p

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I thought "F" meant frequently and "M" was for Monthly.

[SG15Z]

I thought "F" meant frequently and "M" was for Monthly.

Bah! Curse you DGoddess! I just broke rule #1 on my laptop! *shakes fist*

[tropicsgoddess]

S: Is this an ID of you, Mom?
Me: Yep.
S: But I dont understand it.
Me: Ok. What dont you understand?
S: Next to "Sex", its says "F"..but I never saw you fail any tests so..
Me: *snerk*
S: How did you fail sex, mom?
Me: *bust out laughing" Well, F is FEMALE and M is MALE. Daddy has an M on his.
S: Oh. That makes much more sense. *walks away*

That's the kinda of thing you can keep laughing about that he won't live down. too funny!

[artifical sweetner]

Sheesh, reminds me of my Media degree where "sex" was male or female in the scientific term, but "gender" was something else. Ie transgender, transsexual, male, female, bi, straight etc.

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I'm guessing some places felt that "sex" was an offensive term, or more likely, an invitation for a giggle-fest, hence the use of "gender". However, doing any sort of liberal arts will tell you the difference!

just to clarify that gender is the SOCIAL classification whereas sex is the BIOLOGICAL classification. most people prefer "gender" as a transgender does not identify with their biological sex always.

and yes,for the record, i was a liberal arts major (english, women's studies and sexuality/gender studies)

[Imogene]

Sheesh, reminds me of my Media degree where "sex" was male or female in the scientific term, but "gender" was something else. Ie transgender, transsexual, male, female, bi, straight etc.

'Sex' is between your legs, 'gender' is in your head. They don't always match. Which is where the distinction came from.

[dalesys]

So what would LGBTN each stand for?

[Broomjockey]

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual. Never heard the 'n' before though.