Boom, thank you.

That guy does not know who he is dealing with. Also, he is in way over his head, intellectually.

there are so many times that you have spoken over around and through my actual words that I cannot even begin to pick it all apart so I will explain what was wrong with one single part of your last comment and then I will say 'Good day sir'.

I'm sure things depend on the individual person. Like I mentioned above, I've always been told I'm smart and it's the only good thing I truly believe about myself.

I was always told I was smart and still get told that almost daily because my coworkers are really generous with compliments. As a result, it's the only good quality I truly believe about myself. I have the worst self-esteem you could imagine, but since I was consistently referred to as smart since I was an infant…

1. Your Marxist perspective doesn't change anything. Oppression isn't a contest. The end. The "peanuts" you speak of aren't a limited resource - the man who stopped the lesbian kiss doesn't have a finite amount of times he can see people kissing without stopping them, and he just HAD to stop this one, because his…

You know what? As a lesbian who has been subject to discrimination, I say this to you my friend: Fuck you.

So what, everything that happened to me was okay then? The violence lesbians face for being both gay and women is okay because other people might have it worse sometimes? Or do you not count rape as a form of violence?

Thank you for starting this thread.

I was stalked, assaulted, and raped after I was seen leaving a gay bar and refused a man so don't fucking tell me that gay/bi women don't have it bad. I've known similar things to happen to several of my lesbian/bi friends as well.

I'm not conceding anything. You want to argue that "gay men have it worse". They don't.

Social isolation can lead to mental health problems. Do you need links for that? (I don't have any, but it should be easy to google.) I thought that was well understood. It's a big problem in any group facing isolation: seniors, LGBT, etc.

Yeah, gay women have it sooooo good.

I dunno, if a kid learned calculus or guitar out of a book with no teacher, I'd call that being self taught.

I feel that I should point out that they do not all equal out by third grade. I teach kids in general education who have learning disabilities. They are of average intelligence. I have eight year olds who read on a k-1 level, fifth graders who read on a 2nd grade level. I have taught seventh graders who read on a…

(I'm going to just chime in here and say that no one taught me how to read. I was four. There was Sesame Street. Children don't learn to read through exposure to environmental print alone, but plunk them down in front of Sesame Street for enough hours and a lot of them will make the connection between a simple…

On the other hand, when a trans friend came out to me, she told me how jealous she was of gay men. She had to have medications and a set of expensive, uncovered surgeries, before she could have sex that didn't disgust her. She said she hated just looking into a mirror. She had no parental support and had to wait…

It can lend acknowledgement to an inner feeling or intuition a kid has, if they are truly intelligent/bright, that they are. Otherwise, as I wrote above, it can feel like gaslighting to the kid who is smart, has figured out that they're smart, and sticks out because of it. Like, "you're not special, you're like…

I tell the boy he is more advanced than the other kids, and I know how hard it is To deal with. I don't make judgemental statements about him, or the other kids. It's hard to see him trying to connect with other 4 yos when they can't even comprehend what he's talking about.

I agree with this re: giftedness.

I was tested as was every other kid in the school. I have no idea what my IQ is or anything else (my parents followed that rule of not telling), but in addition, my parents kept me out of gifted education because they wanted me to be mainstreamed. This meant, of course, that I was a…