Dating education
| “ | Those who can, do; those who can't, teach | ” |
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Dating education is Chris's term for the formal instruction he believes should be available to instruct people on how to date. The concept is intended to be analogous to sex education; Chris's premise is that it is pointless to teach young people how to interact sexually if they don't even know how to interact socially. As with "sex ed," Chris abbreviates dating education to "date ed," and is overly fascinated with the (alleged) joke that the idea of "date ed" sounds "dated".
Consistent with his autism and his particular refusal to accept reality, Chris tries to seek out clear, direct steps in social interactions where his natural gut instincts and social skills (or lack thereof) fail him. While modern psychology offers such people social skills groups which address the root issues by introducing basic social skills, Chris instead prefers his own notion of dating education and would rather sit around waiting for the public school system to implement it. In fact, his school apparently did have a "Coping Skills" class, mostly likely part of a special education curriculum, which he was required to attend. But he says that he'd either read Goosebumps or sleep through class.
In principle Chris believes dating education should be taught in high school as a companion course with sex ed; however since the primary audience for this class is himself he has depicted it as being available at a collegiate level as well. To persuade the world to introduce date ed Chris devoted Episode 19 of Sonichu to demonstrating his vision. However, the paradox of dating education is that it is supposed to teach Chris things he doesn't know, while his depiction of it is necessarily limited to teaching only what he does know, which is limited to the children's book How to Talk to Girls. As a result, dating education ends up being a semester of being sequestered away from potential mates while chatting with them anonymously over the internet, until love arbitrarily happens. Presumably, under Chris's understanding of love, his characters will be trolled relentlessly in the meantime.
In short, Chris believes he is capable of teaching something he is demanding that be taught to him and others on a grand scale.
Origins
Chris, in his own words, describes why he feels the need for sex ed:
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As I have proposed the idea in my adult life within my Sonichu Comic Books, and a bit before then, High Schools SHOULD have Dating Education Classes along with the Sexual Education Classes. In my humble opinion, Sex ED is fine for AFTER 3 or so DATES, but HOW DO WE EVEN GET TO THE FIRST DATE?!!! If I had the Dating Education back then, I wouldn't have to had suffered being a frustrated virgin for soo many years. |
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Chris genuinely believes the reason why he doesn't have a sweetheart is not due to the fact he's lazy, fat, ugly, racist, homophobic, a liar, and an overall failure but that he merely doesn't know how to date and has no experience. Chris seems to think this is the reason why most people are single, not due to personal defect but merely lack of knowledge on how to go about on a date.
Course Syllabus
Required text: How to Talk to Girls
Core concepts:
- "Remain calm and to keel all flustered emotions off your minds when first approaching your person of emotional interest"
- Be friends first and "let the romantic emotions grow between you two over a reasonable amount of time. A few weeks to even a few months will multiple meetings and dates with your friend are reccomended [sic]." (This works for some, but not for everyone, who will see sex as awkward and not want to ruin a good friendship)
- A gentlemen "should ask before kissing her (or you), as a gesture of respect and kindness"
Methodology:
- Boys are given Barbara dolls and girls are given Robert dolls to better understand the "opposite gender."
- Students are paired up by the teacher over the internet anonymously and then eventually reveal themselves and fall in love in person.
- Students will be required to regularly do short transcripts of imaginary conversations with GI Joes for the women and Barbies with the men.
Final Exam
The final exam consists of 10 questions, the last being an essay question. No calculators (What?). Black or blue ink only. You have one hour to complete. Send all answers to Chris himself so they may be used to improve his own personal dating method graded.
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Name_________________ Date__________
**FOR ALL Sonichu & Rosechu Site VISITORS AND COMIC READERS** YOU MAY TAKE THIS EXAM FOR YOURSELF AND IF YOU DO, FEEL FREE TO COPY THIS IMAGE, PRINT IT OUT, AND TAKE THIS EXAM FOR YOURSELVES. THEN E-MAIL ME YOUR ANSWERS, VERBATIM, ESPECIALLY THE ESSAY QUESTION AND I WILL GRADE IT HONESTLY. |
In 3 November 2009, possibly not particularly enjoying grading the homework that people emailed him, Chris changed the final paragraph to read:
| YOU MAY TAKE THIS EXAM YOURSELF, AND YOU MAY GRADE IT YOURSELF WITH THE ANSWER KEY IN THE BACK OF THIS BOOK.
AND FOR THE ESSAY QUESTION, WRITE YOUR HONEST ANSWERS BEFORE COMPARING THEM TO THE BEST EXAMPLE OF AN ANSWER ALONGSIDE THE ANSWER KEY. |
Answer Key
1. C
2. D
3. C
4. A
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. B
9. D
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On 01 August 2009, Chris uploaded an answer key to the test as it appears on the test, including a suggested essay question answer.
Answers to the multiple choice.
Answers to the essay question.
On the CWCipedia
Surprise, surprise, Chris made a terrible article about his shitty idea. Interestingly, the article was copy-pasted from an essay he wrote.
Originally written for a recent 2009 Community Support Contest sponsored by C-Ville's Battlefield Ford; too bad I did not win, but I'm not giving up on teaching our future generations the basics of Dating alongside Sexual Educaiton [sic].
| “ | Dating Education Classes can best enforce the Natural Man-and-Woman Pairings/Couples; the homosexual count would be reduced. | ” |
| Chris, on Dating Education Death Camps, because men are only gay because they can't find a woman to fuck | ||
Of course, it makes perfect sense to teach future generations dating education, because the overpopulation could sure use a boost now! Why would "future generations" need to learn dating education if they don't seem to be having trouble with it? Chris doesn't understand that for a grassroots movement, you need more than one person to support and promote it.
Relevance
First and foremost, it’s another example of his compulsion to blame anybody but himself for his problems. Chris can tell that his social skills are woefully deficient, but he doesn’t understand the real reasons why – his refusal to accept the advice of others, to adapt his behavior to the situations he encounters, and to go out and experience the real world instead of withdrawing into the Internet or his cartoon fantasyland. He believes that he just hasn’t gotten the proper "education," and it’s the world’s fault for failing to supply it.
It also gives us a hint as to what he really wants from a relationship with a woman. Chris doesn’t realize that no two relationships are alike, that each is as unique as the individuals involved, and the real value of a relationship is in the experience of discovering what makes them unique, which is what makes the notion of teaching a bunch of hard-and-fast rules for "how to date" so utterly ridiculous. Instead, he imagines that getting to know a woman should be a simple, mechanical process, one that he could learn and repeat if only somebody would teach it to him, with a very specific goal at the end.
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