Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 31 2017, @08:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the grooming-for-museums dept.

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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by kurenai.tsubasa on Monday January 01 2018, @03:39PM

    by kurenai.tsubasa (5227) on Monday January 01 2018, @03:39PM (#616431) Journal

    Let's clear this up since you seem to be concerned about it. I'm touched! My transition is as complete as it's going to get. I pass just fine, thank you. I can fool most people into thinking that I'm a cisgender woman, including womyn-born-womyn. If the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival were still a thing, I'll bet I could get in. I know how women are treated first hand, and it is better than what I experienced as a guy.

    I would also like to confirm that my sex life is just great! I get plenty of sex. My only sexual failing (well, besides being unable to give the man of my dreams 2.5 kids, which every instinct within me screams out to do) is that I do not have sex with womyn-born-womyn. I have been molested by womyn-born-womyn before. I have never been molested by a man. Isn't that fucking peculiar?!

    I think you posted once your height, and I'm shorter than you are. That means that if I misjudge a situation and allow myself to slip into condition white, I could have a very bad day. I see what you feminists are describing, and I live it every day. It's calling living in condition yellow. I am aware that there is danger all around me, but I have not identified a specific threat. That is every fucking day for me. So don't you fucking dare tell me what being a woman is or isn't like.

    There's also another curious implication with my short stature. If I am gendered male, I am instantly a target for testosterone-abusing meatheads with Ford F-Teen Fifties. (Oh, btw, just between us girls, a Ford F-Teen Fifty is a good sign that you probably want to steer clear of a guy.) If I am gendered female, guess what happens? I become a Hunny to be protected. That is one of the things that drives me insane about you feminists. You are so fucking privileged that you cannot see how privileged you are! Literally. I know, and you cannot deceive me about it like your white knights, because I have a firsthand basis for comparison.

    Here are some protips. Lock your doors as soon as you get in your car. Carry a weapon. Also having a good pair of sunglasses with a reflective coating is great for intimidation. It's amazing what sunglasses do. Stand up straight. Yes, that means you won't be hiding any boobs with poor posture. People will look at your boobs. Do you know which gender I catch staring at my boobs the most? You fucking womyn-born-womyn.

    So yes, I know exactly what I'm getting in to, because I live it every day! I have over a decade of experience passing so well that even you womyn-born-womyn are fooled into thinking I'm one of you. You know that not every man is out to get you, right? There actually aren't rapists hiding around every corner, come to find out. Men actually are not poisonous mushrooms or in a quantum superposition of rapey states. I think you feminists knew damned well from the get-go that Schrödinger's Rapist was just a cute sci-fi adaptation of literal Nazi propaganda.

    The only reason I am not in deep stealth, if you must know, is because I have to do this inconvenient thing called working a job. The way you get another job is with practical experience. And that means referencing a prior identity. That means you tend to wind up with chain of custody that points back to being assigned the male gender, especially if you want nice things like having a moderately capable gaming rig. In fact, if you must know, I pass so well that I would not be surprised if many people think I'm FtM, because there's only so much I can hide, and I really do not have enough fucks to give to infiltrate FtM forums to find crossdressing tips so that I can pass as a man! (Besides, that is their space. It's not somewhere for me to be infiltrating.)

    I also support other people, you know? I faced the ethical conundrum that I could be selfish. I could tell these people who depend on me that they can go homeless for all I care. My problem is that I do care. You feminists have even made one of them unemployable because of your fucking bathroom hysteria. Don't think for a goddamned second that my anger is just about what's happened to me.

    You were curious about my disposition with passing and questioned my efficacy as an infiltrator, so that's why the majority of this comment is about that.

    As far your trans friends, I feel for them. Have they controlled for transphobia? You feminists have done a lot to foment transphobia. If somebody questions whether trans women are “real” women, guess what most people off the street will say? They will say that even feminists say that trans women are nothing more than bathroom rapists who are invading women. The medical evidence? You feminists say it's all fake news, and they take your word for it.

    I am telling you, Azuma, that feminism has done more to damage trans people than fundamentalist Christianity, precisely because of the credibility people lend feminism on the matter.

    You know what? If you don't believe my authentic experience as a woman with cisgender privilege (though mine, as Serano notes, is ever on loan) that's your problem.

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   -1  
       Redundant=1, Total=1
    Extra 'Redundant' Modifier   0  

    Total Score:   0