Librarian with provocative t-shirt

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son in 4th grade told me that the librarian was wearing the t-shirt with the message “Everybody knows I love lesbians”. What do you think about the dress code in elementary schools? Is that ok ?

I am a religious conservative. I think marriage should only be between a man and a woman and that homosexuality in a sin. But I also believe in freedom of assembly and we are not the taliban beating people into submission on the streets. My coworkers, customers (if I had a business), employees of places I do business with, teachers, students, etc, their sexuality is not my business day to day. One, people who call themselves "lesbians" exist. That librarian "loves" them. I guess that is a fact in his or her life, that us between him or her and God. Two, the "word" lesbian isn't a vulgarity in the English language so kids seeing it is not a problem. If they have a question about a word they can ask someone about it. Their parents can tell their kids to run unfamiliar words by them only, but that is up to them.

I commend you for your open mind, but I still don't think sexual-adjacent terms should be bandied about in primary school. And lesbian is such a term. I'd feel differently if this was secondary school.

Well you are free to think what you think but what are we to do with these insights into your brain?

[Anonymous]

I know exactly what shirt you're talking about.

It's from Great Mythical Morning.

https://mythical.com/collections/everybody-knows-i-love-lesbians

[Anonymous]

And it's the public schools that are indoctrinating kids? lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know exactly what shirt you're talking about.

It's from Great Mythical Morning.

https://mythical.com/collections/everybody-knows-i-love-lesbians

Hit enter too soon...

Definitely not appropriate for the workplace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It''s wild that you think loving a certain person is bad.

Is it okay to love men, women, football players, dogs, pirates, dancers, softball players?

What specifically bothers you?

Never said that. My main question is about the dress code. I can imagine several t-shirts used by conservative Christians that would be offensive to the LGBTQ community. My point is whether it’s ok to bring the culture wars to school.

You mean, would it be OK to wear a Nazi shirt? And you’re comparing that too I love lesbians?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It''s wild that you think loving a certain person is bad.

Is it okay to love men, women, football players, dogs, pirates, dancers, softball players?

What specifically bothers you?

NP, with kids in private schools.

It bothers me that an adult woman would think it is appropriate to wear something like this in front of children, whom she is presumably working primarily with all day. Horrible judgment, or worse.

OP I would report it. It's not OK. It's unprofessional at best, and possibly more sinister at worst.

What specifically makes this unprofessional as compared to I love football players? Or I love brides and grooms.?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son in 4th grade told me that the librarian was wearing the t-shirt with the message “Everybody knows I love lesbians”. What do you think about the dress code in elementary schools? Is that ok ?

Maybe her husband is Greek and from the island of Lesbos?

-shrug-

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know exactly what shirt you're talking about.

It's from Great Mythical Morning.

https://mythical.com/collections/everybody-knows-i-love-lesbians

Ahhh..just came here to say this! It's inside baseball for Rhett and Link fans! And it isn't really sex even without context. It's not a hateful or graphic message, so I don't see the issue.

[Anonymous]

I think it's fine. The staff are not children and don't have to adhere to the same dress code they do. Librarians can be lesbians. Lesbians can have any job they want, and it's okay for them to be out.

[Anonymous]

NP but I’d be uncomfortable with that shirt, because of the “sex-adjacency” of the word, as pointed out by a PP.
I would be totally okay with a shirt that says “Everybody knows I love women.” I would not be okay with shirts that say “Everybody knows I love heterosexuals” or “Everybody knows I love blonds” (objectifying). But then again as a kid I didn’t hit puberty until I was in seventh grade, and my school didn’t do sex ed until eighth. These days puberty is starting so early (9!?) for so many kids, and at least in FCPS some early form of sex-ed starts in elementary school…

[Anonymous]

^but actually, if a woman librarian wore a shirt that said, “Everybody knows I love men,” I would be weirded out by that too. Sigh.
I have more thinking to do about this.

[Anonymous]

I’m assuming that since your child reported this as offensive you fought him that “lesbian” is a bad word and that marriage is between a man and a woman. So go reinforce that. No amount of arguing with people on DCUM is going to change your mind. If you are super offended contact the school. Something tells me they already know and don’t find it problematic.

[Anonymous]

I mean the shirt is kinda lame but is it worth going admin about? Totally not. Save your bullets for things that have a negative impact on your kid like another child stealing his lunch money. Don't use them to report a librarian's t shirt. So many bigger fish to fry in 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son in 4th grade told me that the librarian was wearing the t-shirt with the message “Everybody knows I love lesbians”. What do you think about the dress code in elementary schools? Is that ok ?

I am a religious conservative. I think marriage should only be between a man and a woman and that homosexuality in a sin. But I also believe in freedom of assembly and we are not the taliban beating people into submission on the streets. My coworkers, customers (if I had a business), employees of places I do business with, teachers, students, etc, their sexuality is not my business day to day. One, people who call themselves "lesbians" exist. That librarian "loves" them. I guess that is a fact in his or her life, that us between him or her and God. Two, the "word" lesbian isn't a vulgarity in the English language so kids seeing it is not a problem. If they have a question about a word they can ask someone about it. Their parents can tell their kids to run unfamiliar words by them only, but that is up to them.

I commend you for your open mind, but I still don't think sexual-adjacent terms should be bandied about in primary school. And lesbian is such a term. I'd feel differently if this was secondary school.

The word "lesbian" isn't sex adjacent! Honestly, how regressive can you be? I feel like I am reading a message board from the 1950s. Reducing the identity of "lesbian" to a sexual attraction or sexual behavior is ignorant and offensive. If you are a straight women, does that mean that your defining quality is that you like to sleep with men? Is that what makes you who you are? A lesbian is a woman who loves (*LOVES* not f---s) women. It's not a bad word or a dirty word. It is an identity and as PP said: lesbians exist. If you are hoping to keep your elementary aged kid from finding out that lesbians exists, I feel so sorry for your kid. Don't let your own obsessions, anxieties, and hang ups burden your kid. Let them try to grow into a normal, well-adjusted adult person who doesn't over-sexualize elementary school librarians and isn't weirded out by the fact that people different them exist in the world.

Holy sh!t what did I just read??

The term lesbian is 100% a sexual orientation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP but I’d be uncomfortable with that shirt, because of the “sex-adjacency” of the word, as pointed out by a PP.
I would be totally okay with a shirt that says “Everybody knows I love women.” I would not be okay with shirts that say “Everybody knows I love heterosexuals” or “Everybody knows I love blonds” (objectifying). But then again as a kid I didn’t hit puberty until I was in seventh grade, and my school didn’t do sex ed until eighth. These days puberty is starting so early (9!?) for so many kids, and at least in FCPS some early form of sex-ed starts in elementary school…

How is it objectifying to say you love someone? Heterosexual and lesbian are not sex-adacent words. The fact that you sexualize those identities (instead of seeing them as human people who form lasting pair bonds) says much more about you than it does about the librarian, and she shouldn't have to accommodate your unhealthy oversexualization of others. Have you thought about talking to someone about your own repression/obsession with thinking about strangers' sexuality?