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:( *sends internet love*

Religions and religious communities like the ones I mentioned deserve all the criticism that can be thrown at them. Religions and religious communities that truly preach love, understanding, and acceptance, are great as are the people that participate in them.

Thank you, I am quite lucky to know and love some amazing people I now call family :)

It took me a while to realize that a borderline-autistic lack of social awareness was the only thing that kept me sane during childhood.

I knew some girls “everyone knew” were having sex at that age. In retrospect, it looks a whole lot more like misogynist bullshit slung at girls who developed early and/or didn’t fit in socially.

Can you imagine being 11 years old and trying to guess who/if anyone is writing your name down as a friend. I think I’d have had a full blown anxiety attack.

That’s fucking infuriating. This shit destroys us in so many ways.

True fact: I once sat in a room of highly paid educators for HOURS as they tried to come up with an acronym for the program we were putting together. Not working on goals, objectives, strategies, outputs. etc. Trying to come up with the damn acronym. I was almost murderous by the time it was over.

You’re absolutely, unequivocally, %100 right and thank you for sharing your experience.

I have nothing to add other than you are absolutely right, and I hope that you are on your way to healing and are surrounded with love.

God, I’m so sorry about how many ways you were failed by people who should’ve been on your team. I don’t know what to do about this stuff, but for fuck’s sake, it has to change somehow. We can’t keep tormenting our kids like this; it’s indefensible.

Peer acceptance was judged based on the number of people who identified a given student as a friend.

Sexual education and acceptance needs to be taught to everyone. It’s sad and terrible there is a sexual stigma for young girls and it makes them easier targets for sexual assault and rape, and continued abuse. Religious schools and communities amplify this even more. It took me years to realize it wasn’t my fault for…

Good points. And it’s also likely that those things don’t flow just one way or the other. I definitely knew a lot of girls in this 6th-9th grade age range whose sense of identity was “rebellious DNGAF girl who has sex and doesn’t get along with the other girls,” and looking back I think, yeah, there were elements of…

Was the study able to determine which was the cause and which was the effect?

I remember thinking of what it meant to be of a certain place, time and ethos like it has meant for Detroit, like it has meant for Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Harlem and on and on. There is a particular frequency that certain artists operate on representing themselves, their homes and world in a…

DOWN-TOWN

I haven’t listened to this guys album yet but I just wanted to say I went to school in Flint and have been to that Planned Parenthood. Woooo!