I don't know about you, but for me the news of the day's lately been more boring than watching a Volkswagen rust. I suppose I could type some stuff about the hapless Jets, but even a fan like me who's been around since their inception really doesn't want to waste the effort.
So, in my hopeless scrounging around this morning, I came across an item on Drudge, reprinted from CBS Boston, regarding a 7-year-old boy who's being investigated by his South Boston elementary school for possible sexual harassment, because he kicked another boy in the crotch.
Now, in my day, kids fought in schoolyards all the time. And if you were harassed or banged around by a bigger bully, you either got some of your friends together, chased him down and got even, or else you did your very best to avoid him in the future. But, if a fight erupted, and you were caught, there'd be a reprimand, detention or some sort of penalty paid and life went on. The whole scenario lasted twenty minutes.
But not today, where we have political correctness and folks in authority who haven't a clue regarding real world events. The answer now seems to be to take everything to it's farthest limits and blow it all out of proportion.
According to the victim's mother, “He’s 7 years old. He doesn’t know anything about sexual harassment." While her son himself said, the boy he kicked had been bullying him on the school bus ride home from elementary school last week. Then the mom went on, “He just all of a sudden came up to him, choked him. He wanted to take his gloves, and my son said, ‘I couldn't’t breathe, so I kicked him in the testicles'.”
As far as the school's concerned, the mom described a call she got explaining that the case will be treated like sexual harassment, due to what it considers "inappropriate touching," putting it this way: “Your son kicked a little boy in the testicles. We call that sexual harassment.” She said she’s been asked to attend a disciplinary hearing at the school Monday.
And there we have it, a case where a kid was cornered and fought back the only way he could without a weapon, and now he's being prosecuted for it, which reminded me of an old story.
It seems that in Ancient Rome, some guys were rounded up and thrown in dungeons as heathens. Their penalty was to face unfed lions in the arena, an event that always drew huge crowds. Then one day, the guards dragged this scrawny little guy from his cell, buried him up to his neck in the arena's midst and uncaged a gigantic, very hungry lion.
And, as the lion approached the buried guy and began to circle before pouncing to attack, the guy angled his head in a way where he bit the beast in the same place as the kid hit the bully on the bus. Then, as the lion jumped up in pain, squealed and ran away, the crowd of Romans began chanting and screaming, "Fight fair, heathen! Fight fair!"
So, in that regard, I guess things haven't changed a bit since ancient times where hopeless losers banded together and ranted against the very few who wouldn't give up and figured out a way to win against overwhelming odds.
That's it for today folks.
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