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...Mary's sisterhood and sibling rivalry. Having both bedded the King of England, can they kiss and make up? This being more a Masterpiece Theatre episode than a pay-TV romp à la The Tudors, it never leaves you in doubt that noble sentiment will win out over sexual intrigue, that hanky will trump panky. The resulting melange isn't awful, but you'll be forgiven if you wait for the DVDs of The Other Boleyn Girl - this one and the TV movie - for a leisurely home-viewing to compare and contrast...
That, however, may be starting to change. The big news last season was the unexpected success of Spring Awakening, a hard-edged, hard-rocking musical about the sexual coming-of-age of teenagers in repressed 1890s Germany. It's the sort of show that a few years ago would have been satisfied with a critically acclaimed run at a hip downtown theater--where, in fact, Spring Awakening began life in 2006. But the show, buoyed by good reviews, transferred to Broadway the following spring and awakened to find itself, against all odds, a multiple Tony winner and a box-office...
...racial slurs are no longer tolerated in most schools. However, American educational attitudes toward homosexuality remain lamentably ambivalent. On the one hand, Lawrence King felt comfortable enough in his school environment to come out at such a young age. On the other hand, many young people who have unconventional sexual or gender orientations are subject to merciless teasing (and in this case, ultimately death) because of attitudes that schools have not done enough to curtail. If homosexuality were presented to children in schools from a very young age as an acceptable facet of diversity (as race and religion...
...Your story reports that opposition Leader Brendan Nelson supported the government's apology and that many people turned their backs and jeered as he did so. Nelson, rather than accepting that the day was all about saying sorry, took the opportunity to talk about sexual abuse, alcoholism and domestic violence in some Aboriginal communities. He also noted that in many cases where children were removed from parents, the harm and anguish were unintentional and inflicted by "well-meaning" people. There was truth in his statements, but such sentiments have been expressed many times before. To dredge them up on that...
...more and more kids are coming out in junior high school and expressing gender different identities at younger ages.” He suggests that this trend indicates a greater degree maturity on the part of adolescents. His error is to mistake the use of adult sexual categories for maturity...