I don't know what I think, other than "pnuemonia and anemia" is a weird combination to kill two separate people 5 months apart, who were young and otherwise healthy. Right? That seems weird.

Yep! I remember learning in college (after I grew out of that dumbass phase) that you can match up whichever group is considered the biggest economic threat to 'American' jobs with stigmatization, stereotyping, discrimination, etc. First there were those damn Irish, then those stinky Germans, then those freed slaves,…

I don't understand these morons. I mean, so much of the Texas economy is supported by illegal immigrants. Especially with the agricultural businesses using so much underpaid, illegal labor to raise profits.

In response several of us are planning "Slap the shit out of Young Conservatives" day.

Re: 1. My sister was diagnosed with endometriosis when she was in 7th grade. Her doctor wrote a prescription for the pill immediately, but my mom waited 3 more months to fill it because she thought it might give my sister the "wrong idea." I was like, 1. She was just in so much pain from this that they (mistakenly?)…

The whole "wait until marriage and you'll be fine" thing makes me so angry. First, because it's a way of stopping a young woman from exploring her sexuality on her own, she'll only do it with her appropriate supervisor, her husband. Second, because the history of women, and present state of women, is littered with…

When I was in middle school, there was a presentation given by a young black man and a young Hispanic woman. They took turns telling their stories, using a slide show, about where they grew up, how they started to become sexually active, and how they eventually contracted HIV. At the end, the woman pulled a ziplock…

Speaking of Jesus, he would probably not want religious authorities to tell kids that love is limited. Just saying.

My heart broke for you reading this. I'm so sorry you were subjected to that. Real sex ed would include a whole chapter on physician abuse so young girls could start calling them out on it.

So love is like money and you can run out. Jesus, that is a terrible thing to tell kids.

I teach consent workshops and read a lot
about best practice sex-ed, and in my travels I've heard a lot of terrible stories about abstinence-based, anti-sex programs.

It's crazy to me that there was always a pregnant person in the class. I went to a HUGE high school, but one that had great sex-ed, and there were maybe, MAYBE a couple of pregnant people the whole time I was there. Now, of course, I don't know how many abortions were occurring, but still. I know for a fact that I…

My high school wasn't allowed to have any sex ed classes (Yay Bible Belt!) we were also the #1 school, in the #1 county for teen pregnancy (Yay for obvious correlation!)

Incredibly, I was told that the pores in condoms are much larger than sperm cells so they can just, I don't know, swim out I guess, and impregnate you, because sperm cells are dicks like that.

That I'm straight.

Ha, at my middle school in Northern Louisiana the girls were taken into one room to be taught about periods and what not by the biology teacher. I later found out that the boys were taken outside by the ancient P.E. coach, and that they spent their sessions discussing football. What could possibly go wrong with that…

I went to Sherman High in Seth, WV (about an hour from where the "your mother hates you if you're on birth control" lady caused controversy) and our entire sex ed was just looking at pictures of horrible diseases and childbirth. I came out of there terrified of sex and never wanting to have it, ever. And although I…

Oh man, catholic education here, I will always remember in grade 11, we stopped our biology class for a guest speaker to come in and talk to us about "love". Yeah, love was talked about alright, specifically that in our bodies we have a limited supply of special hormones that are released when we have sex, and those…

Same here. No one lied about anything. They didn't even really discourage sex. It was more "You have to weigh the risks and benefits. When you are quite young the risks can be worse or harder to handle." My middle school was religious and gave me the same sex ed as my high school for the most part.

I am so, so sorry this happened to you. I'm fat, I know I'm fat, I wish everyone in the world would stop feeling the need to POINT OUT that I'm fat, and I genuinely live in terror of being humiliated on an airplane because one more person finds my existence near them too gross to stand.