People forget that there was at least one armed guard at Columbine:

As a fellow teacher, I agree with you. No guns in the classroom - not in my students’ hands or mine. Mind you, I AM good under pressure and I’ve handled guns numerous times. Furthermore, I’ve survived two different incidents when an unstable teen put a gun to my head, and one where a student threatened to beat me up…

It’s not that people want “cheap housing.” We are not talking about people who are looking for a good deal. We are talking about people who are literally becoming homeless or forced to move out of homes that they have lived in forever to suburbs or cheaper states because of gentrification. By definition,…

What? At least in my experience, luxury buildings are much less profitable than section 8 housing and developers are finally seeing that. Luxury units end up sitting empty for much longer, while affordable units move quickly. Yes, NIMBYism is a thing, not as much of a thing as people think (and generally people aren’t…

I prefer to think of it as looking like an 80s shoujo manga heroine, which I’m ALL ABOUT.

It takes a ginormous leap in logic to go from

Right. Like the reason so many people like Donald Trump isn't necessarily his bluntness, but the way his bluntness seems to validate the hateful thoughts that, under the rules of a civilized society, people would generally have to keep in their head. Trump is, more or less, giving them permission to be vocally racist…

You seem sad. I hope it gets better.

An then there’s the HIPPA violations no one realized were happening:

Sure, they’re manageable, but it’s still expensive and there’s a level of hassle and discomfort involved. Just having a thyroid condition means I have to take a pill every day, wait to eat, get more expensive blood tests every year or so. There are more doctors visits, often to a specialist. I’ve had to have an…

By suggesting that Down Syndrome is a construct and not a very well-characterized disorder resulting from a well-defined genetic malformation you disregard over a century and a half of work. You disregard the suffering of countless families in the days before pediatric open heart surgery and surgical interventions for…

I will throw myself down a hundred flights of stairs before I continue a pregnancy I do not want. It doesn’t matter why I want the abortion, it’s my body. Women and women’s bodies have become entirely superfluous in these debates. Anti-choicers worry more about potential, non-existent fetuses than existent women. Or,…

Fuck these guys. My dad is a pediatrician and I’ve seen spent some time around kids with disabilities like this and people who say it’s all easy or docile are lying. I’ve witnessed parents or being hit or horrible situations where families break up to protect siblings. In no way is this is easy or simple for the…

There is also the issue of placing a burden on siblings who did not have any chance to make a choice at all.

Yes, there is another body growing inside MY body. Mine. Over which I have complete and total power to do whatever the hell I please. Inside and out. If I don’t want it there, that growing foreign body is getting evicted.

This is UTTER bullshit. None of these idiots has a clue what it’s like to PERMANENTLY care for a person with disabilities—and the disabilities can be quite severe. Are the families going to be provided round-the-clock care as well as money for medical expenses, etc., to care for these people their entire lives? My…

How about — and, here’s some radical thinking — people stop dictating what other people do with their bodies. It is not your fucking business. If you don’t want to have an abortion, don’t have one.

I can, I can! An abortion is a medical procedure chosen by a real, live, in-control-of-everything-inside-her-own-body person, which affects her, and her alone. Shooting a baby in the face is a stupid false equivalency beloved by ignorant trolls.

I was a young adult, 18. I had spent years in a sort of academic competition, in which I had done very well, much better than most of the competitors. At the end of the competition, there was a big ceremony, and I thought “Finally, I’ll get my just recognition for having done so well for so long in this competition!”…

I had an abortion at Planned Parenthood earlier this week. I chose them despite the slightly cheaper competitor in the same town and the protesters outside of the Planned Parenthood. There was an escort who walked me past them (and who laughed when my boyfriend took an extra lap around the block to intentionally spew…