Intolerably

Charles
May 16, 2012 at 1:59 pm
Actually, Nate going all Rules-Lawyer on this is actually pretty cowardly of TB. But we already knew that. And his lecturing the children as if they weren’t already in support of what he’s arguing is a narrative failure.

Nate continues to “tell it like it is”. In classic TB “tell-don’t-show” style, the principal states that intolerance exists “inside this building as well.” But the only objection we’ve seen to the SSC (same-sex couple, if you’re just joining us)  has come from perennial Puritan Roberta and the mob of anonymous adults outside the building. Wouldn’t it make for a more compelling story to portray at least a few students as less than accepting? Instead, Batiuk unwisely casts this as an old-fogeys-vs-the-kids conflict.