God, this was the break from the world I needed today. Go lil lion bbs!!! 🦁

Well, for one as I mentioned it has a comprehensive approach to consent, which was very much lacking before. It also has far less of a “don’t have sex you’ll die” vibe than before. It’s more, “don’t do anything you’re not prepared for, and here are the potential risks involved”. It also addresses stuff like gender…

Exactly! If the only way you’ll accept affection is through a very specific lens then there’s a good chance you aren’t going to get any. Meet people where they are and however they’re capable of showing their love, you’ll never not have it.

What the fuck? Man, I wish I was educated under the new curriculum. Certainly would’ve helped me understand that it wasn’t okay for my father to put his hands between my legs, which is pretty much the opposite of that idiot’s argument.

It’s so true. And honestly, the old curriculum is almost worse than what the school rumour mill came up with. I was educated under the old curriculum. I was taught sex before marriage made you less of a person (this was only taught to the girls, because of course it fucking was), that boys would do everything to get…

A big, important note here from an Ontarian lurking here: something that social conservatives have decried more often than what’s listed above, in my personal experience, was the focus on consent. It taught even young kids that touching people if they say no (obviously not discussing it in terms of sex the younger…

Thanks. Sometimes something awful will pop into my head not because I believe it anymore but because it was the conditioned response and it’s immediately like “Jesus, fuck, nope”. It’s nuts how much constant work it takes to break the bullshit, but it’s been so worth it. Partly because so much of it also applied to me.

Absolutely stealing this for future. That’s great and also gloriously accurate.

I feel sorry for kids raised by ultra-racist parents. My dad was ungodly racist (I suspect in part because he was too dumb to process the fact that marrying a native woman meant he’d have a mixed kid) and it has taken so long to un-teach myself his awful beliefs.

True. I just wish it wasn’t.

“badapplelonewolf” is an unfortunately useful shorthand. I wish it was not.

In this era, I honestly can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.

You know what really struck me? The police indicated this wasn’t a “major” incident, as it didn’t involve hundreds of injuries. How did America get to a point where a mass shooting at a newspaper’s office isn’t a “major” incident? How is this level of violence not a massive deal to everyone? (I know it’s a combination…

okay to be honest if i was rich i’d buy this exclusively to give my beloved aircraft mechanic grandfather something to do that did not involve cleaning his damn gutters or fixing the basement stairs like he’s trying to give me a heart attack

Exactly. I’ve known plenty of fucked-up writers over the years and they have, in general, dealt with it via writing and therapy. Turns out it’s possible to have emotional issues and not be an abusive dick head!

Ah, yes. Because it’s very feminist and respectful of basic boundaries to touch someone’s hair.

“pubic housing subsidies”

The precise claim was that a vein on his temple (clearly visible in photographs of the man, I must point out) was supposed to be sperm. I have no idea.

I mean, there’s this mess that we had as a poster in my thrid-grade classroom. (my awesome native mum was not amused. I think the the school admin still curse her name)

A friend of mine was given Surstromming by a well-meaning exchange student. He opened it in the back seat of the family van, not really sure what it was, and dropped it in horror as soon as the smell hit him. Thank god they were parked.