03.14.07
Nobody Wants To See Your Butt!
OK, I’m all in favor of “art.” I’ll admit, I’ve never been a big fan of museums, galleries, or sculpture gardens. But I have a healthy appreciation for the arts (music, in particular), and I’m generally a defender of artistic expression, even the otherwise blank pieces of canvass that have random splatterings of paint thrown at them from ten feet away. Not my thing, but who am I to decide what constitutes “art?”
Gotta draw the line somewhere, however. When a teacher decides to drop his trowsers and show his butt in the name of art, I have to strenuously object.
Aside from the intimacy of your marriage or your committed relationship (or your one-night-stand, if that’s your game), nobody wants to see your butt. It’s not a pretty thing. It’s not an artistic thing. Certainly, nobody wants to see your butt exposed to High-School kids in the name of “art.”
Yet here’s the latest outrage put forth by an educator:
A part-time Florida high school music teacher has run afoul of the school district because he is baring his bottom in a community theater production of “The Full Monty.”
I repeat, nobody wants to see your butt.
Like most weirdos, this teacher cites the inalienable right to bare all.
“For me it’s the principle of the thing, because I’m not letting anybody stifle my art (emphasis added),” said Brenner, a fledgling musical director, vocal coach and performer who teaches music and chorus at the high school.
Thanks, but PLEASE stifle!!!!
Some things are just barely offensive (pun definitely intended). Some are outright disgusting. Butts need to be covered. Hiding behind “art” doesn’t cover your butt!
JB said,
March 14, 2007 at 3:42 pm
Ya know, I have to disagree, to a point. It’s not like the dude in question is dropping trou in the middle of class, he’s participating in a theatrical production. Would the same be said if he did the full-frontal version of Hair ? Probably. But that is theater sometimes, and that’s just the way that world is.
Now…. “my art”. Puh-leeze. He’s a part-time music teacher. Or was. It’s not the actions themselves that get my proverbial goat. If the cat wants to be in “Full Monty”, more power to him. But he had to know this would have some potential problems attached to it.
What bugs me is the asinine pretentiousness. “….stifle my art”. Why don’t you kiss my ass, Mr. Substitute. I shall indeed stifle your art by not buying a ticket to your show, or any show like that. Not because I don’t enjoy theater in particular or “art” in general, but because I don’t want to see naked man-ass and because “Full Monty” is a stupid show.
So get a gig as a part-time something else, and leave the rest of us alone.