even that damn singing skittles bunny was held, and touched, and loved...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19293872/?GT1=10056

The above link is what I call, "The Case of Creating Robotic Children." So I'm from Virginia, right? Born and raised on the coast of VA, in the sorta "rough" city of Portsmouth, esteemed for the I.C. Norcom High School Marching Band, no malls, Frozen Custard ice cream, historic downtown, 80 different churches on one street, Victory Crossing shopping center, and multiple potholes. At least, that's when I was living there.

So I'm searching the 'Net for my next conquest to sound off about when I come across the above link. A middle school in Fairfax County, VA has banned students from any type of touching, whatsoever. No hugging, no holding hands, no arms over the shoulders, and they could get the chair or fatally stoned for kissing. Poor kids. All because it could "cause discomfort and/or violence." There's one courageous young man who has decided to report to the school board about what a ludicrous idea this is. I applaud his efforts. All for a few reasons that are so natural and clear to me that I don't see why any parents, officials, or anyone has thought of them.

(A) Let's define "touching." Hugging involves feelings of admiration and, particularly where I'm from, hugging is a sign of affection, a basic greeting, or hell, we hug after a joke hurts somebody's feelings. [Come here, baby. Me so sorry.] We don't hug somebody, then bust a cap in their ass! I can see if a dude is hugging a girl all tight, hand all on her ass or up her skirt, or something. Holding hands, same way. A baby holds hands with their mother to cross the street. I mean, come on! It's like the school officials are making the case that a girl will hold the hand of a guy she doesn't really like because she'll be uncomfortable telling him, "No, don't hold my hand." They are making these kids out to be big ole' dummies. Which comes to my next point.

(B) These kids aren't STUPID! There is no benefit of the doubt here at all. If a girl has enough self-esteem and a mouth on her face, she will tell a dude off if he so much as tries to put his hands on her in an unwelcoming way. Again, the kids are not boo boo fools. Are the Fairfax county kids so violent that, if the girl did manage to say "no, don't touch me," the dude will automatically slap the shIIt out of her? Not likely.

(C) They're making these children unresponsive, unemotional robots. And we see what happens when people have no love in their lives. They bomb city parks. They strap dynamite to themselves and walk into a restaurant. They shoot somebody over extra chili sauce. They're in mental facilities, rocking back and forth and holding themselves. Or they're really bad bosses. [LOL] These are the people we should fear, not some damn horny adolescents.

And the biggest point: (D) If you tell a child not to do something, 9 out of 10 of them will go off and do it anyway! It's the natural teenage way to date somebody when your parents say "no," all because you love them and "nothing else matters." We see it everyday. Hell, I did it!! I stayed out after curfew just because there was a curfew! Interactions with the opposite sex is what makes "teenage-hood" what it is!! There are probably 18 couples under the bleachers right now at the school, making out heavily, all because they can't touch each other in school. Just think how many girls can be pregnant off these silly ass rules...

I hope these school officials open their pale eyeballs and remember when they were an experimental teenager. I'm sure something will change. Big ole' dummies.

In Portsmouth, Virginia, we touch each other. That was my original point. :-D