Has it really come to this? A High School art teacher is suspended because she has some topless photos online.

What the fuck is wrong with us? I mean, seriously. Just what the fuck. Where does this hatred of the naked body come from? I've never understood it and I guess I never will.

What's doubly disgusting in this particular case is, if you read the article, it says:

The photos came to light last month as a result of a feud over ceramics equipment with another art teacher, according to sworn affidavits. Students who had seen the pictures showed the teacher, who then notified school officials.

Let me get this straight. It's immoral for an art teacher to have topless photos of herself taken, but it's not immoral to bring these photos to said art teacher's boss and use them as leverage to settle a dispute over fucking pottery equipment by getting the teacher fired? Expression is punished while blackmail is rewarded?

I repeat. What the fuck is wrong with us? I mean, seriously. Where did this skewed perception of "morals" come from? It must be religion, I suppose. So dark the con of man.

Just how far back do we have to go before Western culture as a whole respected and loved the human body, rather than seeing it as an outlet for sin? And why can so few people see that this concept of sin is merely an invention of the church? Why is it not obvious to more people that it is nothing more than an outlet through which the clergy establishes control? That which they cannot control becomes amoral, a one-way ticket to eternal damnation. They have no control over a society that views sex as healthy, so they fear it, and so they vilify it. And so teachers get fired because a society, even in a town as liberal as Austin, Texas, has been beat into accepting the strange, unnatural, and destructive idea that the naked human body is dirty, and that anyone that puts theirs on display must necessarily be amoral and unfit to teach a crowd of high school students.

What fucking lunacy. What stark raving madness. What catastrophic imbecility. The inmates are running the asylum, and apparently have been for quite some time.

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And just when you thought it couldn't get any more into bizarro world, I remind you of this story from last month, where A teacher showed up to work drunk, fondled a 13-year-old girl, and was arrested, and yet, apparently, wasn't fired immediately! The school system "will seek to have him fired," so speaketh the article, but doesn't appear to have walked him out the door. God forbid he were a woman that had some topless photos found online - she'd have been fucking canned on the spot.