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A little girl asked her father one day if Santa Claus was real. The father thought for a minute and began to worry. He couldn’t bear to see his daughter so disappointed, so he told her “yes.” The girl eventually turned twelve and was just starting middle school. She asked her father again if Santa Claus was real. Her father, again keeping in mind how sensitive she was, told her “yes.” The day after the girl’s sixteenth birthday, with her brand new car keys in one hand, she asked him again. Her father, wanting to prolong the disappointment, said “yes.” As the girl packed her boxes to move in with her boyfriend for the rest of her life, she asked her father the same question and told him to tell the truth this time. Her father said “yes.” …show more content…
“...how can you talk like that about not wanting to be part of the social body?” she says, “It’s horrible…” she says. She just avoided it altogether and kept the idea in the dark. In the real world, one would find themselves in the same situation if they were to talk about subject like sex. These kinds of aversions to discomfort seem completely reasonable on the surface. However, it’s resulted in an extremely abridged and one-sided sex education standard in the U.S. Schools find that sex is an extremely touchy subject and it makes them and the students uncomfortable, so they decide it would be a better idea to censor it than to actually teach students about their own bodies and how to keep healthy. It also transfers into LGBT rights. Gay marriage, at one point, was illegal in America. People obstructed human beings from marrying who they were in love with, because it made them uncomfortable (also there’s a certain little book that told them to). It’s preposterous. The slothic put these poor people in a place of misery where they would never feel equal to a straight couple. It’s absolutely

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