[tanaros]

I have not watched the video, but I will note that “passing around” can mean “passing around the room [and then taking back].” The linked article says only the toys were “shown.”

This is not the same as “[giving] out sex toys to kids.”

[robswc]

>This is not the same as “[giving] out sex toys to kids.”

I consider someone coming in and giving out butt-plugs to kids the same as "giving out sex toys to kids." I don't think anyone was under the impression that they got to take them home, if that's what you're thinking.

I was actually trying to be less polarizing in my phrasing.

[gjsman-1000]

For the people that the story targets, even if there may be that misunderstanding, does that make it any much better?

[hnbad]

I'd wager the group of people outraged hearing that some person who is not even a teacher is invited to hand out veiny rubber dongs to their children is larger than the group of people outraged hearing that a sexual health educator passed around something that looks more like a smooth plastic carrot (and collected it before leaving). So yeah, the difference matters and leaving this open to interpretation aids embellishment and therefore reach. After all, where there's smoke, there's fire: if this gets reported on, it surely can't be the most charitable version of events.

[robswc]

>I'd wager the group of people outraged hearing that some person who is not even a teacher is invited to hand out veiny rubber dongs to their children is larger than the group of people outraged hearing that a sexual health educator passed around something that looks more like a smooth plastic carrot (and collected it before leaving).

Hardly a wager when the former population would undoubtedly be included in the latter.

Why does anyone need to be coming into the class room to pass around butt-plugs and dildos for kids to play with?