Of course, this also happened so…
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I’d hate to be perceived as a contrarian (as usual), but…
Personally, I disagree. Because being called a name is actually directed at me, so I am more likely to interpret it as an insult. Whereas nudity has to be really in my face for me to consider it personally directed, so I am more likely to simply register “nudist”, or in this case, “some dumbass”. BUT I am also aware that others will have their own perceptions and values as pertains to this sort of thing.
People who raise their children with the belief that people in certain roles have power over them are inviting problems of some sort anyway. Which is more harmful to my children and affect them for the rest of their lives: being socialized into a hierarchy, or seeing a penis?
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It’s not simply “seeing a penis” it’s an act of vulgarity and a display of the socialized hierarchy.
I have no problem with penises. Heck, I own one myself. But when one is displayed in an act of lewdness, directed at one or more people as a symbol their power or sexuality, or for their own sexual gratification, it’s as much or more of a personal violation than name calling.
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Now those are some unsavory concessions from an upstanding member of the teachers union.
Point taken. This was not a good thing. I only hoped that someone else might have said this. Thank you! 10^6!
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Kudos! 
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I have been thinking about this a great deal. Wait that doesn’t sound right. Abort!
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Guys get pretty weird about that; At my JC there was a row of 5 urinals, at break there would be long lines in front of 1, 3 and 5, no one using 2 or 4. I thought it was strange but I didn’t mind, never had to wait in line.
At my work there are 2 urinals next to each other, one ‘regular’ height and one low one. One day I went in and someone was using the regular one so I went to the short one. The next day there was a big “out of order” sign on the short one.
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You may want to see a urologist 
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That’s the difference between owning a penis and being owned by a penis.
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Guys who don’t aim properly pee all over the tops of those short urinals. Whenever it’s my turn to be stuck at the short urinal, there’s always a yellow crust on top.
Sadly, for some of us, there’s no difference.
This is not how you end the argument…with the urban legend of ‘pick a nig’. Remember that fifty years ago, that would have been 1966. When anyone lynching anyone would have meant a whole city would have been aflame. Get it right, Coward.
I’m from New Haven, Ct. Like, Yale? Like, we supported the Black Panthers? Look up May Day, 1970, and tell me that we would have held a pick a nig and lynched anyone. I am a widow of a Black man.
I am not familiar with that urban legend. I was referring to this:
Not only were there commemorative postcards, but:
At one particular lynching, it is said that nearly 15,000 people were in attendance
Quite the public spectacle. I was downplaying it quite a bit. Even if there was technically no tailgating at this particular sporting event, and I have no way of proving either way, it still had an attendance on the order of a professional sports game. Keep in mind these were extrajudicial executions, and we celebrated our barbarism. The good days were not so good, and that’s what we were trying to point out.
I wasn’t the one who mentioned that lynchings were 50 years ago, but I agree that they were. This was nearly 53 years ago, and it wasn’t exactly the last lynching in US history:
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There were lynchings well into the 1960s and even today, you get the occasional lynching. As the widow of a black man, I’m surprised you don’t know this history.
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