Here we go again.
The latest teacher to be fired
for having a past—Stacie Halas.
According to the Huffington Post,
“A Southern California science teacher was fired Wednesday night for performing
in a pornographic video, school district officials said.”
Halas had performed as a porn
actress before becoming a teacher, so I find it difficult o understand legally
how this can impact her career as a teacher now.
The problem apparently stems from
the fact that some students became aware of a video available online.
Perhaps
the problem lies with the students and the parents who were not more aware of
what their children were doing on the Internet.
It seems we slide into dangerous
territory when we begin deciding that a woman’s past occupation should
determine her present situation. All accounts are that she was a good teacher.
Just because women were once
employed in the adult entertainment business doesn’t mean they can’t go on to
pursue other work.
You’d think that people would be
happy to see that porn actresses and strippers can make something of themselves
with their clothes on.
There should be no disgrace in
our pasts.
And there should be no discrimination just
because some of that past “work” can be found on the Internet.
Thank you, Gothamist, for sharing
the latest person willing to strip down in the name of, well, stripping down: Man Protests TSA Screening By Stripping Naked, Gets Arrested.
John Brennan took a stand against
the TSA’s screening process by making it easier for the agents to see he meant
no harm. Unfortunately for Brennan, his performance ended in his arrest for
indecent exposure and disorderly conduct.
I find it interesting, as does
Gothamist, that when a woman did the exact same thing last week at Denver
International Airport, she was taken to a hospital for a mental health
evaluation.
Brennan allegedly refused
repeated orders to put his clothes on, and later told authorities he is a
frequent flier who "disrobed as a form of protest against TSA screeners
who he felt were harassing him." According to the Portland law enforcement
report, "Mr. Brennan's actions caused two screening lanes to be closed and
while some passengers covered their eyes and their children's eyes and moved
away from the screening area, others stepped out of the screening lanes to
look, laugh and take photos."
So I’m just kind of curious what
the differences were in these two strippers’ circumstances. Is it simply that a
woman stripping down in public as a form of protest must be mad while a man
doing the same must be a pervert?
And for all the hubbub about parents covering
their children’s eyes I must ask—why? Haven’t kids seen plenty of naked humans
before? It’s not like the naked people were involved in sexual acts. I would
much rather my children see some naked protesters in real-life situations than airbrushed
bikini models on magazine covers at the grocery store.
This article and video on Yahoo’s
Shine answers the question—when will women go too far to lose weight? Brides’Extreme Wedding Preparations: The Nose Tube Diet.
Sarah B. Weir writes about what I
seriously hope is not a coming trend.
Want to lose twenty pounds fast?
Like in ten days fast? Just have a tube stuck down your nose and be fed through
a bag and surprise, surprise! You’ll lose the weight.
Does this scare the living
bajeezus out of anyone else? And it’s not cheap either—$1,500 for the ten-day
program.
"People think I'm sick, I'm
dying," Jessica Schnaider, 41, of Surfside Florida, told the Times
referring to people's reaction to seeing her wearing a nasogastric feeding tube
attached to a portable plastic bag of low-cal liquid nourishment. During the
program, she skipped picking up her daughters at school because she didn't want
to scare the other children.
But this does not deter her from
her weight-loss plan.
What does she say to her children
about why she has a tube down her nose? For vanity’s sake? Which is kind of humorous
when you think about it; you have to look like you’re a seriously ill person to
get to the desired end.
And, of course, as most people
know by now, the weight loss will most likely be temporary and one might even
gain back extra weight afterwards.
I was going to say—what will be
next? Surgery to reduce body weight that is merely cosmetic? And then I was
like, oh…yeah.
We’re already living in this beautiful
new world.
