Velvet Banana

An elementary school in Wisconsin held a week long themed school dress up event. One of those days was “Senior Citizen and Opposite Gender” day where kids could dress up as the other gender. Naturally, right wing Christian fundamentalist groups assailed the innocent school tradition to the point where the school will never hold an opposite gender day. This is exactly the sort of societal pressure to adhere to antiquated ‘norms’ projected onto a forward thinking school (and causing the school to cave-in) that we’ve discussed in class. One of the headlines of this story is “Cross Dressing Event at School Causes Controversy” located in the “Strange and Unusual” section of the paper. Wow!