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My brain conjured up a song that I thought was that one, but it turns out it was one by 5ive. Quick, someone pull up an even more obscure reference from that era! I don't want to win this one!

I can't believe you didn't mention the #aaroncarterhornylevel meme, which is what brought him back to his recent level of "relevance."

They both used to be on the local news in Hartford. He seemed like a tool even then. If I remember correctly, he was ex-military and a really short Bostonian, which is always a great combination.

Exquisite.

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Your standards are as low as theirs, apparently.

Yeah, no. Try another site.

Jez nap pile! Everyone, join in!

I'll accept that it's coming across that way to you. Apologies; certainly wasn't my intent. I'll have to find a better way to articulate what I'm trying to say and try again some other time. I thought the connection was clear, but oh Internet.

As I said in my original comment, my guess is that there was a special grant/endowment earmarked for those students. I am in absolutely no way complaining that those students got awesome comprehensive health care. I am proud to have gone to a college that is pretty darn famous for its LGBT acceptance and community.

Good god, no. No, please, you are 100% misinterpreting what I'm saying. Like, could not be farther off. I understand that people get their guards up with these types of articles, but really, go after the "they're not real wimmins" poster instead.

That is my guess. It must have been connected to the scholarship they had for LGBT students and administered separately from the (awful) student health care plan, because I don't see how they could have done it otherwise.

Are you guys really thinking I'm complaining that LGBT students got help? I'm not complaining about that — I'm saying that it was weird that equivalent care wasn't given to everyone on the health plan, so obviously there had to be a special grant or program separate from the health care plan, such as the ones

I work in higher ed, and while I don't work in health services, my understanding has always been that vision and dental are the exceptions to the rule. Mental health coverage is not always covered as well, though it is much more common than vision and dental.

I understand all of those statistics and the problems facing the LGBT community. But it's still hard for me to understand how non-LGBT students in crisis were denied the help they needed. There are lots of categories other than LGBT that have higher suicide risks. It was just a weird system.

I'm not complaining; I'm contrasting. Difference.

5-year-old? Please say you mean "from five years ago." Ugh.

Red Pegasus? God help me, I can never remember the pattern anymore.

You went to Wellesley but don't realize it's not an Ivy? That's weird.

My "elite" (women's) college's student health plan covered LGBT-specific therapy but not regular therapy. Like, if you went to the health center and said you were going to kill yourself, you got 8 half-hour appointments in the counseling center and that was it. Anything beyond that, you had to go off-campus and you