Various sites are reporting a bizarre and troubling story that the principal of the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center in Texas shutdown its adult cosmetology class after concluding that one of the male students looked gay. Principal Thomas Amons is being accused of shutting down the whole program because he allegedly knew he could be charged with singling out the one student on the basis of presumed sexual orientation. An instruction. Amons is a deacon at a Baptist church.
Student Kwmane Gray, 22, (left) reportedly caught the eye of Amons. Instructor Cequada Clark is quoted as saying that “[h]e saw [Kwmane Gray] come into the class, and then he came to get me out of there” and told that Amons did not want him in the class. It appears that Amons was shocked at the appearance of a possible gay person in a cosmetology class. Clark says that she refused. After she went public, Clark says that she was fired.
The backlash has caused the district to announce a new cosmetology class.
Source: Dallas Voice
Idealist, was it something I said?
Why are we so super-reactive. Every damn word seems to find somebody’s trigger. Oh yes, my triggers too.
Cosmetology….oh I got a niece….!!! for example.
My example is just one now actual, and my words are NOT aimed at the speaker, but at ALL of us.
Let us stop COMPETING. Let us stop looking for ATTACKS. If we unwind, relax, etc. then we might find it easier to come into contact with what is written. And write more peacebly. Personally, my own efforts to lower my own fear level has been helpful.
But a general lowering here of our competitiveness and raactivity might also help.
If we spent less time super-reacting then we would spend less time fighting and less time mending fences over misunderstandings—-and less time listening, if you do, to my sermons.
OK BettyKath, you forced me to tell the other funny make-up story.
In about 1995 or so, Playboy Magazine contacted me to write a piece that would be half of a “debate.” The rules were this: 250 words, 2 hour turn-around time, fax in my piece, there will be 5 questions, it’s $1,000. I said, hey, sure! I was the “mothers’ rights” expert and they were having a “fathers’ rights” expert do the same. Neither of us was to see the answers the other would fax in. Double blind.
So they send me 5 questions. Easiest questions on earth! ALSO I knew exactly what their FR guy would say in answer to each question. So I answered, undercut the FR guy on every answer (by educated guesswork), and faxed back in 20 minutes. They got the FR guy’s answers an hour after I sent mine in; I got a fax confirmation sheet.
They didn’t print immediately.
They phoned me and said they were sending a photographer to take my picture. I said “MY PICTURE? IN PLAYBOY? WHY?” They said, “oh it’s just to show the speaker above each column, fully clothed, just a head shot, perfectly normal, blah blah.” I said OK. They sent a photographer over. He comes in and says, “OK put on your make-up for the shot.” I say, “I don’t have make-up.” He says, “OK I’ll use this” and opens up a little case and has USED make-up and — get this — USED LIPSTICK.
So I say, “uh, no.” He says, “There’s nothing wrong with them!” I say, “then YOU wear them. I’m not.” We argue and finally I tell him if he wants make up on me, he has to go buy some NEW and come show me it IN THE UNBROKEN CONTAINER and then he can put it on me. So he goes ahead and does that, makes me up and shoots.
The story never ran. When the FR guy saw my answers (as I saw his, and they were exactly as I had predicted!), he made a fuss and threatened to sue Playboy if they printed. He insisted that they had told me his answers before giving me a chance to respond. He fussed so much and threatened so much that they killed the story and although I got a free make-up session, I never got my picture in PLAYBOY. 🙁
I believe Koreans have the pedicure market cornered.
Malisha, LOL.
When I was working I did the makeup bit but now I don’t. Maybe a touch of lipstick now and then when I remember. But I still need my hair cut and an occasional pedicure is now an essential luxury in which I indulge
Oh BettyKath, sorry, just kidding.
Some of my best friends are cosmetologists. They would NEVER agree to paint black eyes on Zimmerman’s ugly mug. 😉
Actually I never did make-up but I have two funny make-up stories. One is that I was doing some talk-show TV once and I was in the green room and the make-up guy asked me something about my preference for a foundation and I said, “whichever one gives me the biggest grant.”
The other one takes too long to type. I can’t even apply lipstick properly.
Originally cosmetology was slated to be named Fardology. But when the teachers in the classes pronounced the name in a loud and fast speaking tone, all the males were overtaken with uncontrollable giggles and laughter.
Prompting them being dismissed from learning the science of Farding.
Viva La “T”ifference.
“That principal should be fired on the spot. He is disgusting and stupid. I sure hope his Gaydar was correct. I smell a lawsuit.”
raff, Does it really matter if the student was gay? The principal shut down the class on the basis of his bias, not necessarily the actuality of the person’s sexual orientation.
Malisha, Don’t put down cosmetology. There are young people in my family who are studying to be cosmetologists. I use the services of cosmetologists to help me look presentable. (I need all the help I can get!) Some of the cosmotologists whose services I have used have been gay, some not. I return to those who do a good job. Move on when they don’t.
idealist707 1, September 17, 2012 at 2:52 pm
Dredd,
Tribute? Why you introduced microbial symbiosis in the human bady to this blawg, at least to me.
So in my case all derivative issue should be attributed
to your pioneering introduction.
Speaking of berries, do you know what dingleberries are? Don’t tell anybody else.
Briefly put, at the right stage of development when stars and supernovas had been around long enough to generate the required elements, and the energy and material levels were adequate, the ionizing effect of solar radiation led to the clumping of elements and
raising of energy levels.
This produced pre-complex molecules, and molecular structures which had life-like functions. More on this later. Got a video which explains.
Symbiont with stars? These microbes could serve as seed elements through their densifizing effects and their gravitational effect could draw the lighter necessary element (hydrogen) to concentrate, compactify, and ignite a new star. These microlives did not survive, but supernovas from type III stars again increased their number. A form of pro-creation.
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Ok, cool.
I will look up “compound action” Hmmm?
Logical error or grammatical?
Dredd,
Tribute? Why you introduced microbial symbiosis in the human bady to this blawg, at least to me.
So in my case all derivative issue should be attributed
to your pioneering introduction.
Speaking of berries, do you know what dingleberries are? Don’t tell anybody else.
Briefly put, at the right stage of development when stars and supernovas had been around long enough to generate the required elements, and the energy and material levels were adequate, the ionizing effect of solar radiation led to the clumping of elements and
raising of energy levels.
This produced pre-complex molecules, and molecular structures which had life-like functions. More on this later. Got a video which explains.
Symbiont with stars? These microbes could serve as seed elements through their densifizing effects and their gravitational effect could draw the lighter necessary element (hydrogen) to concentrate, compactify, and ignite a new star. These microlives did not survive, but supernovas from type III stars again increased their number. A form of pro-creation.
“GeneH.
Have you stopped reading my comments?”
Yes and no. Reading is a compound action.
Elaine,
Are you sure? That is TCTC?
Would that be pronounced “teasy-teasy”. Does that imply something?
Malisha,
Speechless, but not wordless.
“There should be no question about what cosmetology is; Shellie Zimmerman is a cosmetologist, isn’t she? They study make-up. Make up stories, make up excuses, make up poverty, you know” –
Best one yet.
Dredded person,
I asked for a challenge for two reasons: It will be lengthy so should be moved to a quiescent thread. And I don’t feel it worth much time if there is no interest. At a blawg, probably weak.
Who of these geniuses shall I answer first.
Not by love interest first. Let them wonder.
GeneH.
Have you stopped reading my comments? When passing on the link to the tale of the PAL, (as in principal),
I related his adventure, ie excursion into reality. with the teacher to hairdresser competition. Shocked by all the flaming sheilas, he immediately told the teacher that he did NOT want any of “these” in his classes.
Stupid as he was, it of course never occurred to him that there might be some, ib all the other types of courses curreently running.
I just looked at the school’s website. It’s says that the Taylor Career and Technology Center is “the best kept secret in Beaumont.”
Not anymore!!!!!
Can anyone truly say that they not only don’t want homosexuals in cosmetology let alone operate under the principle that there are none already in the field of cosmetology with anything resembling a straight face?
Jesus may have wept, Frankly, but Hollywood is screaming bloody murder.
I just love the smell of a lawsuit on a rainy day.
OK who’s in the picture? It says “(left)” — is it someone gay or a leftist or the principal?
There should be no question about what cosmetology is; Shellie Zimmerman is a cosmetologist, isn’t she? They study make-up. Make up stories, make up excuses, make up poverty, you know —
idealist707 1, September 17, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Dredd,
In a tribute to you, I would say that microbes are formed in space in a symbiont relationship with stars.
As far as I know, my original theory, not studied by anyone—-yet.
I will explain it, if challenged.
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I don’t understand the tribute thingy, but whatever, space is larger than it looks …
Why do you have to be challenged?
Just do it! (sorry Nike) …
Are you a Cosmetology Dood that has to be slapped to stand up for your hypotheses? 😉
Stand up for your rights!