I know quite a few nurses who aren’t as smart as they think they are.

Thank you. I will now spend the rest of my day trying to convert you to the cause:)

Well said

I would, but I don’t see one here.

Really? Seriously? That’s your story and you’re sticking to it?

Aww, yeah, everyone grew up and are now raising their daughters to believe their gender isn’t real, but ‘assigned’ by evil obstetricians at birth, society is a vast conspiracy of men designed to oppress them, and a college campus is literally the most dangerous place on earth for them be.

OMG! Was that you next to me in church? Eyerolling hard enough to take down a building?

Bless your heart...:)

Yes. That is exactly what she’s saying.

Maybe I’m just bad at this whole adulting thing, but I never got into the mindset where I’m supposed to be perpetually annoyed with teenagers for having the gall to be emotionally chaotic and irrational.

I remember as a teenager sitting in some church youth program and this woman got up and started talking about how horrible self esteem is, as a concept. I think the basic idea was that *self* esteem invited focus on the self, which was a form of self-worship, whereas good Christians should focus only on god and…

I’m your age, or maybe a tic older. They heard us. They did things about it. They just didn’t make the news. Just because it’s louder now doesn’t make it more relevant.

Why is it such a crime to these people to want to be treated with respect? is it so difficult to fulfill others and yourself by just being a nice, good person?

Sure... because life isn’t easy, we should arm our children. Of course, it doesn’t count if they get the guns from you. Amirite?

“In the post, Vukmir advocates old-school discipline and structure and bemoans what she sees as the “emergence of a psychotherapeutic culture of cushioning self-esteem at all costs.””

Kids are so much better off when they hate themselves....

For every complex, difficult problem there is an easy solution that is always wrong.

Great, so she’s suggesting that with a little old-fashioned boot-strapping these young men could have gone on to bigger and better things—like killing people by the millions as politicians.

Nurses are notorious for being idiots. There’s a reason they don’t sit for the MCAT

I did - I corrected myself somewhere around here.