Glamour hugely misleads its readership over the latest bill in Florida to clarify education. The claim is that girls may not talk about menstruation and periods. Which is, of course, a ridiculous idea. No one is suggesting that and we'd be among those shouting if someone did.
What is happening is that the curriculum is being clarified. These things, these things here, should be taught in these types of lessons. Those things over there, they're more suited to a different type of class. And that really is all that is happening.
As Florida legislators debate whether a bill would prohibit discussing periods at school, young Floridians explain the necessity of health education in the classroom.
That's not what is happening in the slightest.
Now, as Florida legislators debate whether or not a bill—referred to as the “Don't Say Period” bill and meant to limit sexuality and health education in the state's schools—would prohibit young girls from talking about their periods in the classroom, young women like her have a message to their elected officials: leave our periods alone.
Simply not the truth at all. What is – perhaps deliberately – being missed is what Glamour then says:
While the bill doesn't explicitly mention menstruation
There's nothing about the subject in the bill at all. So why the claim that there is? The conclusion has to be that Glamour is seeking to deliberately mislead its readers.
Parts of the bill do say that sex is immutable, and that personal pronoun preferences do not have to be obeyed by teachers or others. Given that these are modern sins against the current fashions some opposition is to be expected. But on the other hand, those are ideas that would gain large – but not fashionable – support. Therefore while those might be the reason for the opposition to the bill that's not how it can be put.
So, therefore, an invention of something that simply is not there in order to get the readership energized to oppose it. You know, entirely misleading, even perpetrating disinformation, in order to pursue a political goal. That is, not journalism, but politics.
There's more to the danger than that of course. Because the readership deserves to be educated, not misled. As we'd like the schools to be educated, so, too, the media.
Florida – even this suggested bill rather than the law of the state – is not trying to ban talk of menstruation in schools. So why invent the idea that they are? In order to mislead, of course.
This article originally appeared in Accuracy in Media. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News. Republished with permission.
Glamour is Transphobic! What about young boys’ periods?!? Come on, Glamour. You must be cancelled for your bigotry!
Young boys do NOT have the equipment to undergo menstruation.
But we are told men can get pregnant.
True but that was sarcasm.
Glamour was a propaganda rag when I was a teen; clearly it has not changed an iota!
My thought exactly. Trying to make a mountain out of a molehill is all I see.
This is just one more example of the left loons trying to advance their cause. They don’t want any type controls on what they can do to brainwash our children during their school hours. Then of course they don’t want them to go home and tell their parents what’s being taught. People better wake up because the left is turning this country in to one woke hunk of land. We need to get them all out of positions where they are in control of our schools and our government, while we still have the chance.