Unrelated, but sort of related: My young daughter’s reaction to seeing the HQ of defense contractor BAE Systems.  “Is it like a dating service?” 

These are the scenarios they never tell you you’ll have to handle when you’re in teacher training, aren’t they? That student is so lucky to have had you and your compassionate response.

I hope there’s at least one adult looking out for him. I had a trans girl student pick me as the teacher to come out to after a lesson on genetics in which I said that XX:female and XY:male were typical, but exceptions abound and gender/sex is complicated.

There’s a lot to unpack here. I’m trans and I’ve spent my career thus far in customer-facing IT. I’ve long accepted that I will have both co-workers and customers who hate me. I guess that’s life where I can expect to always get the short stick.

You have nothing to be ashamed of... but I think I do. Since watching The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina on Netflix, I’ve become obsessed with Ross Lynch (who plays Sabrina’s boyfriend Harvey) and his band R5:

Shhhh, there’s nothing wrong with loving silly pop music at any age.

You forgot the last part. “I need a beard so people stop saying I’m gay because people are so fucking awful. They are ruthless and vicious and have no fucking clue how damaging it is to be the subject of tons of mocking and speculation in regards to something that kids regularly commit suicide over”

I remember his Heidi Montag-level of candid pictures with his girlfriend. He sure tries really hard to not be seen as gay, which is unfortunate because it comes off fake and fuels the fire even more. 

I love his music too and I don’t give a fuck! I think his voice is like smooth butter. 

Teddy Geiger co-wrote and produced a bunch of the most popular Shawn Mendes songs, and she has a new album out. Would recommend.

He’s not wrong about how having good hair is an evolutionary calling card, but I want to slap whichever member of his family told him that he didn’t have to try as hard as a result.

“I need a beard so people stop saying I’m gay” -Shawn Mendes

He’s still responsible for the ultimate nice guy anthem.

In that case, I hope you do the same with, nuns, monks, other clergy, people who wear crosses, women in heels or makeup, shaved legs or armpits. Hell, I hope you post up to yell at women going into salons and bikini waxing places.

I agree! I loved it but feel like no one else does. There aren’t even any gifs from it that I could post to back up my argument.

The books are some of my favorite and Jenny Han is THE BEST. Netflix needs to adapt The Summer I Turned Pretty so I can ball my eyes out.

You forgot Alex Strangelove in your list of teen netflix rom coms. Wondering if the oversight was accidental or intentional!

Right?! And then the lovely emo / pop punk boys arrived, murderously angry at women. And the allegations from that era are only JUST starting to trickle out...

After their twitter flirting last year, I kind of want it to be Cory Booker.

I imagine Heigl’s biscuits would be dry, flavorless and tough to swallow , just like her blog posts.