January 2012
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some shit i wish they'd taught me in sex ed →
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tattooedducks:
abstinence only sex education sucks ass. my parents were good about talking to my bro and i about sex, but there are a lot of things that they didn’t know to tell us because culture changes so much over like 30 years.
this is all stuff i learned myself over three or four years of research, experience, and constant desire to learn in spite of all of the people who...
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megan rosalarian gedris: One teachers approach to... →
togetherforjacksoncountykids:
“It’s Okay to be Neither,” By Melissa Bollow Tempel
Alie arrived at our 1st-grade classroom wearing a sweatshirt with a hood. I asked her to take off her hood, and she refused. I thought she was just being difficult and ignored it. After breakfast we got…
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i aim my arrows high: Ms. Magazine: The Myth of... →
aimmyarrowshigh:
Written by Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barnett, co-authors of The Truth About Girls and Boys: Challenging Toxic Stereotypes About Our Children
Has your local public school opened up a new all-girls classroom? Are you tempted to enroll your daughter in it? After all, the principal may have offered up impressive evidence that girls learn in very different ways from boys, and...
The Corruption Test →
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pawtism:
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167. I’m so boring I make Garrison Keillor look like Courtney Love. This shit is rigged. I swear I got this score just by being married and out of college.
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Although the fact that being homosexual automatically gains you 10 points is kind of a red flag on this test. Also i’m...
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I am suddenly gripped with concern that I'm making...
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Nerds and Male Privilege →
coelasquid:
rosalarian:
This article is fantastic. And so is this comment:
Jesse
Nobody wants to believe that if given power, they’ll use it badly. Especially when they’ve been attacked by those with power earlier in life. In other words, nobody wants to think when a ship full of their friends crash on a desert island, they’ll end up as Piggy holding the conch shell.
Bit of an obscure...
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Minty Fresh 2.0: My Occupy LA Arrest by Patrick... →
pauliophonic:
darcibastiaan:
My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica.
I was arrested at about 1 a.m. Wednesday morning with 291 other…
Even if you agree with police that linking arms is a ‘violent’ form of resisting arrest, this is...
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So You Made A Rape Joke
ok4rj:
So you made a rape joke and now people are, like, really, really mad at you. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt; maybe you were at a party and the booze made your common sense slip away from you or maybe you were making what you viewed as a flippantly humorous remark on Facebook. Either way, you probably didn’t mean any harm, right? So what’s the big deal?
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