Balloon Juice posted about an essay in American Thinker supposedly written by an 11-year-old boy. In the essay he details the horrible discrimination that he’s faced as a conservative kid in school.
My name is Sam Besserman, I’m eleven years old, I live in Beverly Hills, California, and ever since I can remember I have been subjected to political bias in school. The first time I noticed the bias was actually in preschool where the teacher was reading a book about the importance of mothers and the inferiority of fathers. I tried to tell the teacher that dads might be just as important. The teacher responded in a sing-song, “No, listen to me, I’m the teacher.” Of course, the girls loved the book and most of the boys hated it, except for a few who liked it and also wanted to become mothers some day. I was three years old and royally pissed off.
I had to listen to such feminist ideas every day and, at times, I actually bought into them. Months later, I still didn’t know whether mothers were really more important than fathers. Once I even felt like going into the bathroom and trying to pull off my penis. It wasn’t that I wanted to be a woman, I had just lost my enthusiasm for my embattled gender.
Let’s stop right here for a second. This kid wants us to believe that he remembers being indoctrinated into feminism at the age of 4? And that it made him so emasculated that he had to check his genitals?
The only male teacher I had might as well have been castrated. His voice was soft, his gestures were feminine, he didn’t know how to run a class and he had to rely on female assistant teachers to control the children. And, of course, the female teachers treated the girls ten times better than the boys and constantly reminded us of our alleged inferiority. One of the assistant teachers even put down our rhyme, “Boys go to college to get more knowledge, girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider,” by reminding us that more girls than boys go to college because girls are smarter. And this only encouraged the girls to hijack our rhyme and switch the sexes around.
The nerve of that teacher telling boys that girls are just as smart, if not smarter than boys. Obviously this teacher is part of the liberal/feminist/communist plot to teach the truth to children. School should be all about teaching girls their proper place in the world and making sure that Sam Besserman’s beliefs never get challenged.
Let’s review. This 11-year-old, Sam Besserman wrote the following sentence: The only male teacher I had might as well have been castrated. All I can say is that the boy has obviously had excellent teachers to be able to write so well.
What purpose does this essay serve other than to convince other conservatives that they are the victims and therefore are entitled to act like assholes? Perhaps the editors of American Thinker published a clever parody to show how many adult conservatives act like children with a grievance. What think you?