Bravo to this young woman and whether it was the school, or her parents SOMEONE taught her to be a clear and cogent thinker who stands up to be counted. I hope to hell my son can be half as articulate at her age.

The school's next sexuality workshop should be run by the student who wrote that open letter.

I promise I will see you again, and next time, you can call me Mom.

He took it as further proof of my demonic origin.

My freshman year of college, I made the mistake of dating a very serious born-again Christian. (I was raised both Catholic and Unitarian Universalist, I'm not sure what he was doing in the relationship either.)

I'd say worse. A post it has taken effort to write. A text message includes things like "UR NT WAT I WNT IN A BF"

I'm so happy I wasn't dating during the cell phone phase. I'd be so fucking pissed to be dumped by text. Get your ass off the sofa and come break up to my ugly crying face.

But as that NYMag story demonstrated: Texts and Texas are so close to each other!

Holy smokes, You feel pretty strongly about cheerleading. I believe I said I wouldn't encourage it, not that it wasn't allowed. I believe I said she knows there are options. I was being hyperbolic when I said I felt like I failed. I do feel like it is sad that they present this activity just to girls and is a reason…

Does anyone remember the Super Special books? There was one where they all went on a cruise and then to Disney World. I think I read it 50,000 times. I once faked sick on Yom Kippur so I could read it alone and not have to deal with family.

Not a baby-sitter! DISQUALIFIED

I am so appreciative of your Wrinkle references. Charles Wallace's character is one of my fondest literary memories as a young person. Not sure why. I have to re-read the series again, especially the ones about Sandy and Denys.

I never read it, but did you ever pick up the racy updates to the Nancy Drew series? At one point she makes out with somebody who isn't Ned on a couch and I was SCANDALIZED.

An outraged friend Gchats to say: "You are so off about Stacy, she raised awareness of diabetes, for starters. Also, she was fashionable! Also, she came from NYC. Also, Stacy was good at math - that's why she was treasurer.She broke so many barriers." We are carpooling to a wedding this weekend and I'm going to be…

Shannon was Kristy's neighbor at Watson's house. She was super rich and went to a fancy rich private school. At first Kristy didn't like her because she thought she was a huge snob, but THEN they became FRIENDS! She was an "alternate" member of the BSB (along with Logan), who filled in when everyone else was busy.

I idolized Claudia. She was clearly the best with her "almond shaped eyes and jet black hair".

with several of Hollywood's most awesome women: Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts, Andrea Riseborough, Zach Galifianakis, and Merritt Wever, among others.

What's laughable is your idea of risky.

Any person other than a white man, constantly has to apologize for not being ok with the shitty shit (white) men do. Men fuck up constantly, left and right, and that in no way EVER reflects badly upon their own gender. One (black) woman fucks up, and all (black) women are obviously inferior and inherently flawed. But,…

Inspired by Boondocks cover, I like to explain "I have a right be hostile"