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Originally Posted by Dravyk
Ok, PD. What are these people supposed to do when they enter the real world????
Should we stop selling peanut butter and perfume and every other thing that might possibly bother someone somewhere? How about special lanes in the pavement of midtowns with plastic dividers so those who are allergic to fuck-everything won't mingle with the "normals" who heaven-sakes might wear a dab of perfume or something?
Get real!!
This isn't getting anyone ready for the real world -- it's doing the exact opposite!! ... catering, pandering, deluding and putting off the inevitable. This is already making nothing but true psychological bubbles in the schools. Bubbles which WILL burst one day and then what happens to them then???
Seriously, provide an answer. I'd really love to know. Tell me how this is the right thing for them, for anybody ... and tell me where along this insane line does it stop at? How far does it go?
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Oh, so you've gone from pushing them off cliffs to preparing them for the real world.
That's good - I was scared to find out what you might want to do to people who have physical challenges. Are the fucking gimps as inconvenient as the weakling nancies?
I don't recall saying anything about not selling perfume or peanut butter, or saying anything that could be remotely construed as suggesting same by anyone not off on some kind of emotional tangent (most likely "I'm getting old/cranky old man" syndrome - you know, the one that starts out "These kids today are pussies...")
Do I think that some places (schools, employers, government offices) go too far? Yes.
Do I think that for every child out there who actually suffers from an allergy, there are nine (or nineteen) malingering parents hovering in the background? Undoubtedly.
By the time kids get out of school they have undoubtedly developed a number of coping skills that will facilitate their entry into the real world. Making some accomodations for them while they are undergoing that process is nothing more than an inconvenience for others.