Dumbest question asked by a co-worker who was serious when he asked:

[geminigirl]

You mean...women don't have prostate glands?

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[griffen.livejournal.com]

Mentioned this to my much more clueful friend atari_eric. His comment: "This is the kind of thing that spawned the phrase, 'Don't look at me, I just work here.'"

He found it quite disturbing that your office deals with sex education and that your coworker was this clueless. (The two things together, not each separately. Well, maybe the second one separately, but not the first. The first is very cool.)

[cappyhead.livejournal.com]

Darling, that's nothing. At my last job, in an HIV clinic, a fellow social worker who had been there for over a year turned to me and asked, "Say there are two guys, and neither of them have HIV... can they make the HIV virus by having anal sex?"

At least she had enough sense to know it was a stupid question.

[baratron.livejournal.com]

That's actually what I used to think when I was 9 and the whole AIDS crisis started in the news. Well, I didn't think people could spontaneously make a virus - I thought it lived in the air and somehow only entered into people when they had sex. The thought of people having sex with more than one person utterly horrified me.

And here I am now ;)

[griffen.livejournal.com]

*facepalm*

You know, there was a fanfic I read, an X-Men slash fic, involving Bobby (Iceman) and Remy (Gambit) as lovers. Warren didn't approve, and when Remy became ill with cancer Warren assumed it was AIDS, because after all, they were TWO MEN FUCKING, right?

I can't recall the whole speech, but I do remember one thing that Bobby said in his showdown with Warren: "You thought it *had to be AIDS because we're two men and we have sex. Right? We don't have to catch it from anyone, we just sort of spontaneously generate it, right? Or get it through osmosis or something?"

You know, I rarely get sarcasm. This sarcasm, I got.

[roosterbear.livejournal.com]

I would be tempted to ask him what he thinks a prostate gland does in a woman.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh dear. Gotta agree with what Griffen said.

There is a gland in the same spot (can't remember its name)
that would be a prostate if someone female were male but...
Seems its thought to be the source of female ejaculation iirc.

fluffKitten

[catling.livejournal.com]

{set jaw=dropped}
Don't you work in sex ed? That statement would show an alarming degree of ignorance from most humans, from someone in sex ed that's just plain sad and scary.

[geminigirl]

Technically HIV/STD and substance abuse prevention education. Which yes, in effect means I do a great deal of sex ed. I could accept from this person (a gay man) a bit of confusion about the position of the urethra vs. clitoris, but the prostate thing...that just well...

[schillerium.livejournal.com]

If there's one thing I've learned in my 30 years on this planet, it's that you should never, never underestimate the fundamental stupidity of most people.

[mattp.livejournal.com]

I could say the same thing... after 9 months working in tech support ;-)

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