Yeah, I’m in awe. And proud of mine, and of course we worked punishingly hard because that’s what you have to do. But I am still ashamed that these children are left to do this, that we were not able to preserve them from that.

A couple of years ago, my daughter, waking up to the scale of the problems left to her…

“Inane public ramblings” might be a better term

Amen, baby girl.

Right? Although the millennials have given us a beautiful present: feelings matter. A few weeks ago I found out just how radically underpaid I was despite routine work heroics, nearly consumed myself in a fireball of rage and nausea, went to my younger still-X boss, and made my nauseated, enraged, deeply hurt feelings…

Same. I thought I was Generation Y. Now according to everything I’ve read I’m an (older) Millennial and Y no longer exists? I remember no internet though.

Hello, also 35 yo. I heard we were Xers for a bit, but sociologists keep trying to lump us in with Millennials. I think that ultimately we’ll (people born 1980 to 87ish) be spalled off into a microgeneration. I mean, if a generation is defined as a peer group with shared childhood experiences then we stand apart from…

This was my favorite moment of the day. What a brilliant kid.

There is nothing more difficult than standing in front of a group of people and letting silence be. (I know this from my teaching career...). It’s interesting to see the audience reaction - silence makes people so uncomfortable! Some feel the need to fill it - cheering, chanting etc - until the silence sinks in. …

Remember: if you stand with the GOP, you stand with a party that stands with pedophiles. That suborns perjury to get their man in place. That calls themselves ‘the party of law and order’ whilst subverting justice.

I brag about my dog that much.

This animal and his enablers need to be driven to the sea. This shit is done.

How many sex workers have you spoken to? Because I do know some, and they would be spitting mad that you’ve decided that they couldn’t possibly know what they really want, the poor dears, and you’re just sure they’re being exploited in some way they’re just too darn womany to understand!

You’re totally correct, but back here in the real world shit happens and people have bills to pay.

Cool, and until you’re “given” that world do you support the rights of women (and some men, and lots of gender fluid/non binary people but I’ve noticed that antis tend to forget sex workers aren’t just cis women) to earn a living by a means of their choosing as safely as possible or nah?

What would be awesome is if we removed the stigma from sex work and treated it like other jobs, with benefits and shit.

I can imagine a competition between kids to find the most offensive-yet-allowed items to put in their bags.

Me too and I’m a guy.

I would completely fill my bag with tampons in protest.

Honestly, I think I’d FILL my clear bag with tampons, condoms, hemorrhoid cream, Nickleback cds, lube, and other assorted sundries just to make the clear-bag-decision-makers uncomfortable.