10 people what. I don’t think I had any *classes* that small in high school. How do you even have classes. Our GSA had more than 10 kids (though out of 1500-is kids).

My dad only had to deal with the parents who wanted their kids to be able to opt out of the whole chapter on probability and statistics because gambling was sinful. (He gave them things to do that didn’t involve dice—mainly drawing a number 1-6 from a bag, which you might recognize is basically like rolling dice—but…

Guessing this was First They Killed My Father? My high school English teacher assigned this and the resulting uproar from the Sheltered Snowflake contingent almost caused the instructor to resign. That book was so well written that some of the imagery still sticks with me 10 years later.

That was on my freshman reading list in college too! She was an alum of my alma mater. Really interesting, powerful book. But yeah, I would have loved to have had Alison Bechdel in college.

Huh. I mean, that makes sense, in really homogenous areas where everyone is evangelical/fundie. Where I went to (public) school, there were evangelical Christian kids, but they were definitely a small minority and probably on the same level of coolness as the chess club.

This is the saddest thing I've read all day.

I remember in high school how one religious girl in particular chose to self-edit reading out loud. She would abbreviate Jesus christ as JC, but had no issue saying the N-word from the text out loud with the hard R.

I know. My aunt assured me they would lead to witchcraft. She refused to let my cousins see the movie, and mentioning it was a no no. Sadly, her freak out was misplaced as I did not become even a mildly competent witch, and I never did find the devil worshiping chapters.

I actually had some fundie parents kick up a fuss when I read Harry Potter with my 4th graders because WITCHCRAFT!

You just have to keep reading them over and over and over until they have completely infiltrated your mind. And maybe like, sleep with the movies playing on a loop in the background too.

Nononono. It totally works with Harry Potter. Not with any other literature, but I am definitely a witch of the highest caliber now and when I say “Accio ____” it works. REALLY.

How did this kid graduate high school without reading a book that in some way/shape/form had even implied homosexuality? Ugh. I’m 90% angry at this constant fundie passive homophobia “for the Bible tells me so”, 10% salty because I didn’t get accepted into Duke tbh.

He said “graphic depictions of sexuality” not sex. Like he couldn’t deal with relationships being presented.

But he's totally fine with the gruesome violence and sexuality in the Bible, right? Wahhhhhh.

My uni guilted/threatened us into reading some boring ass drone of a memoir written by an alum my freshman year. This kid gets Alison Bechdel and acts as if it’s a negative. Usually the author does a workshop at the uni, so I’m jealous as hell. And if he hasn’t read the book, how does he know it has “graphic visual…

Grosso could've just not read the book, but why waste an opportunity to appear sanctimonious in public?

No, they shouldn’t. Her big album was released when they weren’t even born. Time winnows out musicians, and most people who aren’t hobbyists or professionals end up knowing a lot about music during their lifetimes, about the greats during their parents’ lifetimes, and about a handful of people who came before. Alanis…

You are just learning about it now? It was during her Canadian teen idol years. She used to be the real life Robin Sparkles.

sigh

I once had 2 interns who didn’t know what a fax was. They called, “there was this weird beeping sound” so they hung up and ran to me in confusion.