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Teacher, parents weigh in on nude-artwork incident
Lincoln Elementary School art teacher Mateo Rueda had no idea what was in store for his career when he wrapped up a lesson Dec. 4 by telling students to look through some art postcards in the classroom library for examples of color usage in notable paintings. The cards, which were part of an educational package called "The Art Box" produced by Phaidon publishing, were placed in the library before Rueda began working at the Hyrum school. He knew the set portrayed a wide variety of classic artworks, but he has since said he was not aware that three or four of the 100 pieces featured in the box showed nudity.
Before the week was out, Rueda would find himself at the center of a controversy at the school, would be contacted by police after someone filed a classroom pornography complaint against him, and would eventually be out of a job.
The situation came to light Wednesday when The Herald Journal published a letter from the mother of one of Rueda's students complaining about the art teacher's dismissal and praising his work with students. She also let her feelings be known on Facebook, where her posts gained wide circulation among local school parents and educators.
Cache County School District officials have declined comment on the matter, noting that this is "an ongoing personnel issue." However, one district official who asked not to be identified said that Rueda's termination had more to do with the teacher's interaction with students after the students noticed the nudes than it did with the actual pictures themselves.
Parent Venessa Rose Pixton said this was the nature of a complaint she lodged with the school after learning about events of that day from her 11-year-old son, who was in Rueda's class. "It wasn't the pictures so much that really bothered me; it was the method in which he went about it afterward," Pixton told The Herald Journal, though contending in the same interview that she thinks the teacher shirked his responsibility by not reviewing the pictures thoroughly before allowing children to access them. "My son felt that Mr. Mateo belittled them," Pixton said. "He said Mr. Mateo even told the class 'There's nothing wrong with female nipples. You guys need to grow up and be mature about this.'" Rueda flatly denies he said this or took such a tone. "No, that did not happen," he said this week. "I did say that when you grow up, you're going to find yourselves going to museums or to places where unavoidably there's going to be nudity."
This is The Art Box, containing 100 postcards. Also at Fox 13 Salt Lake City and Snopes.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 01 2018, @03:56AM (2 children)
Kurenai is a little insane. She's an MtF whose transition has been stopped in the middle due to meddling and lack of funds, as far as I can tell, but there's also obviously some comorbid mental issues here. She was treated badly by a bunch of TERFs (trans-exclusive radical feminists, a.k.a. "complete fucking assholes" to you and I) and as a result has been so traumatized that she considers all feminists of all stripes to be evil and vicious and personally out to get her. She believes they are responsible for her inability to access certain medications necessary to continue transition, if I recall.
She also doesn't do her research and tends to post when emotionally agitated, which leaves us in the weird position of a transwoman who posts all the MRA talking points. I...don't know what to make of this. I'm not trans-exclusive by any means, but have only known one reasonably stable MtF out of nearly a dozen and am getting very tired of all the drama. I'm also getting tired of being attacked for no good reason, for things I did not and do not say, do, or believe. And this is going to make life as a fully-transitioned woman very difficult for her, because the assumptions she's making about how untouchable and privileged women are just is not true. Frankly, I think she's going to kill herself when that reality hits home.
And I'm rolling my eyes and cringing at her constant tantrums, not least because, as unfair as this is, it makes every single MtF out there look bad. This is because it's a long-standing rule that "$MINORITY does something bad" equates to "$MINORITY are all bad" in the eyes of far too many people. But she cannot or will not see this. I'm beginning to feel like a lifeguard trying to help a drowning person who insists on kicking her in the boobs.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday January 01 2018, @04:57PM (1 child)
Do you comprehend why I started attacking you and feminists in general again? Do you comprehend why I am purposefully ignoring everything you've ever said in the favor of trans women?
This is what it's like being on the receiving end of the misogynerd narrative. You are held accountable for the actions of others. Yes, even:
You've lost your patience? I've fucking lost mine, too!
As long as this Narrative goes on, I will continue doing this.
I do not know how else to make it clear how wrong the misogynerd narrative is. I'm going to tell you the exact same thing I've been told countless times when objecting to being held accountable for the actions of others. “If you don't like it, then do something about $problem we're holding you collectively and severally accountable for.”
Isn't it fucking frustrating? Doesn't it just drive you up the wall knowing that you're being held accountable for other people's actions, even when your own actions and words have explicitly been the very opposite?
Welcome to my reality with the misogynerd narrative.
And don't you think that it's a matter of time before men in tech adopt a similar position, if they haven't already? The misogynerd narrative is blowing through feminism's credibility like credibility is going out of style.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 01 2018, @08:03PM
Listen, asshole, I'm not one of the people who subscribes to that collective guilt bullshit, so you can quit applying it to me right the hell now. You are dangerously short on allies as it is; if someone outs you you could lose your job, your housing, and even your life. I have seen all of these happen, some to friends of mine. Your situation is precarious and brittle. Keep people offering to be on your side, on your side.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...