I don't care if there's ONE kid in the class who may be hurt thinking the teacher sides with a system that has in some way damaged them or their families. That's enough reason to not wear it. Not to mention that their politics and beef with their union are COMPLETELY inappropriate in a classroom anyway.

Even on those days though—-and I LOVED being able to wear jeans, since it seemed like I was always squatting down next to desks or fixing equipment or doing other things that were a pain in a skirt, at any rate—I wore the jeans with a dressier or button-down shirt and sometimes a cardigan or whatever, and ballet flats…

I was a public school teacher until February, and I'm disgusted. If you're not able to consider the impact of something like this on the sensibilities of ALL your students, then gtfo of the classroom already, because you don't understand the reason you're there in the first place. I can't believe their callousness.

Definitely too much distraction. Not a fan either.

Have you ever run into a partner who didn't believe that you can basically orgasm every time? (30% of women? That's still almost 1 in 3, hardly freakish). I broke up with someone and during that messy process, he insinuated I'd been faking, and I was flabbergasted. It was like in a years- long relationship he hadn't…

Oh, bullies sure HATE IT when people find out what they're really up to at home, don't they? Good for him for getting his cretinous family on tape.

Yay! More grist for the MRA mill. Thanks, Leann.

My 7-month celibacy streak is starting to sound like a gift from God.

I was once attacked (not physically, but it was awful and I really don't want to go into detail) for NOT standing up to a groper, by the person I was in a relationship with. So it doesn't matter what choice you make, actually, as far as whether or not someone's going to think you did something wrong.

Actually, this was probably the hardest CingTFD I ever had to do. So I could think rationally and get her some help, twice. And not obsess on a daily basis about her but give her the space to get on with it.

And Gandhi. I loved that movie.

Well, I just trimmed my FB list to about half. After nine years of watching someone fall down the FOX news rabbit hole until he went from conservative to a raving, unabashed racist, I no longer tolerate even a whiff of it. Fuck that, life's too short, and I've wasted enough of it on these turds.

Good grief, those were stupid. I couldn't finish any of them. It doesn't help that I hate minivans and always refused to get one (and I have an old Element, so I'm not exactly cool either.) The cheerios one actually showed promise because of waking up to the mask for a fraction of a second, then rapidly…

I thought the hipsters were the ones who always needed to let everyone know how absolutely beneath them everything pumpkin spice is.

:-o

Hahaha, stuck in a subdivision in Roanoke, here. I've heard horror stories about teaching in this state. And I was offered a part time job at a private school, three levels of my content area (so three preps)...$7650 a year.

I think the one on the bottom looks like this:

It's also the most satisfying to bake. Every time I produce a good loaf of bread I'm way more impressed with myself —-and the fact that the process actually worked—than with say, a pan of brownies or batch of cookies or something.

Unhappy? No. Ill-at-ease? Yes. (I only carry in certain situations...alone on long road trips or camping trips, for example.)

I own one, and there's been exactly two instances in all that time (years) when I've been in the exact right place and situation to feel like it gave me a possible advantage and made me feel happier it was there than not. Otherwise....nope.