Talk about a twirp...
TWIRP stands for The Woman Is Requested to Pay, and it's an innocent-sounding enough role reveral tradition that happens in a tiny Texas school district once a year. The idea is that school-aged boys and girls reverse social roles; young ladies get a chance to buy their beaus sodas, open doors for them and ask them out on dates.
Apparently there's a bit of cross-dressing that happens, too, which has some 33-year-old who knows better than the rest of us up in arms -- enough so that it got cancelled this year, thanks to the intervention of a Plano, Texas-based religious organization called the Liberty Legal Institute.
Apparently they're worried that TWIRP Day's cross dressing will the impressionable young children of Spurger, Texas to a life of homosexuality. Which conveniently ignores years of research that suggests that transvestites are, for the most part, heterosexual.
Comments
Corporal punishment is still applied by teachers in schools around Dallas. That's to prepare them for the durass that is applied by a few professors at a local state univerisity. Either students pay for private classes that are not required by the school or they fail the course. Is allowing the kids to change roles for a day really worse than being hit or put under durass?
Posted by: FC | November 17, 2004 01:52 PM
I meant duress. LOL.
Posted by: FC | November 17, 2004 01:55 PM
Once again the religious right has invaded Texas. Some day I'm going to find an academic job somewhere else.
Posted by: suellen | November 17, 2004 03:00 PM
Many, MANY years ago, there was a similar incident in which some uptight school administrator prohibited girls from wearing tuxes to their senior prom.
I guess for this season's "moral issues" folk, hooker garb is still acceptable for young girls, but pants and shirtsleeves are not.
Posted by: CapeCoder | November 18, 2004 05:45 AM
hooker garb is still acceptable for young girls
Or, to borrow a term I spotted on LiveJournal, "prosti-tots".
Posted by: Christopher Davis | November 20, 2004 01:51 PM