Then, WTF do you call it? Just WHAT do you call it? Censorship, plain and simple.

Dog-Cow is overly abusive with his response - but he's not far off target. Most, not all, but most of my generation were grown up when they graduated from high school. Legal adults, with the right to vote, the right to drink, the right to fight for our country, the right to marry, the right to have children, and the right to work.

Today? WTF has happened to our country?

We need Charles Darwin to remind us of that "survival of the fittest" thing.

If the kids aren't ready to make adult decisions sometime between 15 and 20, then they are not fit for survival. If parents aren't ready to cut the apron strings by the time the kids are 20, then those parents are unfit, themselves.

So, the relatively less bright elder brother can continue dabbling in old science, while the brighter, younger sister forges ahead into new territory.

No matter how you cut it, we don't need NASA putzing around in the atmosphere, there is another agency already dedicated to that.

I understand. The weak always look for the easy way. Tell you what - you take the nice, smooth, paved highway, and I'll take the bad roads. We'll both be happy.

Maybe YOU can. I don't want MY descendants waiting around for the next huge ass rock to collide with the rock we are living on. I really want my descendants (notice that you can find DNA in the word?) spread over a few dozens of rocks. Maybe even some in another solar system.

I don't much care if your descendants put their heads under rocks, and stay here. That's their business.

Because - censorship. Censorship is never the correct response.

Wow. Your limited view of school board members is really something. Maybe you're just projecting your own inner turmoil onto those board members?

As for the rest of your post - well - the boys AND the girls need to grow the fuck up. Oh - yeah - that's what high school is all about, right? Growing up?

The boys will eventually come to terms with being dicks, and the girls will eventually come to terms with the dicks. That's life.

I'm sorry that you were so damaged in the process of coming to terms with dicks. Unfortunately, it seems that it does happen sometimes.

So? Isn't it about time that NASA grew up, and looked further into space? We already have NOAA. Every nation on earth has weather and climate scientists. WTF do we need NASA to study the weather? We need NASA to build big honking SPACESHIPS to move mankind into the solar system. Screw the weather, in 150 years, half of mankind won't give a small damn about weather on earth.

I've heard of sex change operations, but nationality change? How did they do that?

He lies. He was still learning to spell his own name five years ago. And, his password is LMNOpeee.

So - only the faces of virgin girls should ever be seen in public. All other female faces have been "corrupted" by having sex? Sounds a lot like Islam to me . . .

Read your own statement again. You seem to argue that women don't belong in subjects unrelated to sex. Now, if I were to agree with you, then I would be one sexist bastard, wouldn't I?

Look at your chart again. Isn't there something odd about it? I find it somewhat amusing that after women got the vote, they 'voted' by declining to compete with the boys in technical fields.

The chart pretty well demonstrates that there is no real reason that girls can't compete with boys. It starts with girls at parity with boys. It declines for reasons that almost certainly have nothing to do with ability. Interesting, huh?

So, while you're so busy arguing for women's rights to work in technical fields, maybe you've missed the point. Maybe women really, really, really don't WANT to work in technical fields?

Now, you'll probably say something about 'cultural conditioning'. My next question would be, what conditioning caused the decline in the first place? Again - maybe it's the women who did the conditioning? Remember, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. Think about that for awhile.

If you and tens of thousands of other activists are busy trying to free women to do something that they really don't WANT to do, doesn't that amount to yet another kind of slavery? You want to bind those women into the same system that makes men so very competitive. Are you doing them any favors, or are you just trying to hammer all those round pegs into square holes of your own choosing?

I would argue in the opposite direction. As a teacher, I would want the controversy. Pretty much every student will be more engaged due to the controversy.

When I was a youngster, there were still teachers who didn't care if they taught you and thing. If they succeeded in teaching you how to think, they considered themselves a success. The idea has been phrased many ways, some of them quite witty.

One of the controversies when I was in high school centered around 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'. The prudes considered it to be vulgar, and people more like yourself argued that it should be banned from the curriculum simply because it was controversial.

I can tell you that EVERYONE in the class read the book. Even the knuckle draggers and meatheads read the book. I can't say the same for any less controversial book. Every student in the class was involved during class discussion, unlike discussions about ancient "classics" like Shakespeare's works.

Bring on the controversy. There may be limits to acceptable controversy, but I certainly haven't encountered those limits.

Alright - suggested homework. YOU write the algorithm that determines whether a photo might be considered alluring, or suggestive. You write the censorship program that you require to satisfy your own sensitivities. Then, install that software on all of your electronic devices.