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• Having an intellectual disability doesn't necessarily mean you can't act. Check out Chris Burke: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Burke_(actor). He's an actor with Down Syndrome.
  (posted to The Problem of Portraying Disabilities)
• My experience was much the same as yours. It was private school, and there was absolutely no mention of sexual health, discussion of reproductive anatomy, or information about contraception. We were given an anecdote about a woman who has sex
  (posted to Sexism in Abstinence-Only Education)
• Oh god, don't even get me started on Dr. Dobson. I read an early version of the book Preparing for Adolescence when I was six because my parents recommended it, and finished it thinking that people had sex with their
  (posted to Sexism in Abstinence-Only Education)
• Yes ma'am. Their answer was that men were visual and more easily turned on than girls, and therefore had a harder time controlling their urges, so it was the female's responsibility to not dress in revealing ways and to not
  (posted to Sexism in Abstinence-Only Education)
• This was an interesting post. To be honest, I think the whole "relationship" function on facebook is a little ridiculous, and I don't use it. It's tempting to think that people who "marry" their best friends on facebook are just
  (posted to A Letter I Hope I Send)

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• *clarification, assault on me. and rather than get angry at him for doing so, she decided to get angry at me for telling her. (posted to A Letter I Hope I Send)
• Because your statement was content to hang the issue around the necks of sorority girls, while providing justification for the same potentially offensive behavior coming from other not "heteronormative" and "materialistic" types. Sorority girls may be an easy target, (if (posted to A Letter I Hope I Send)
• Which is great, but doesn't address the point. (posted to A Letter I Hope I Send)
• a couple things... i would have to agree with those who say the joke is probably on facebook and the seemingly vapid gesture of announcing relationships on facebook. my experience is that most people who are "engaged/married" to each other (posted to A Letter I Hope I Send)
• Hmm, I hadn't thought of it this way. I am gay (queer female, I tend to say gay although I am realizing that despite it being my preferred word, it doesn't express my political convictions accurately to the world at (posted to A Letter I Hope I Send)

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