I remember one day in 5th grade during P.E. class, a particularly douchey male classmate of mine turned to me completely unsolicited and said, “Boys are better than girls at sports, you know.” Now, if this had happened today, you better believe I would have smacked the dodgeball or whiffle ball or whatever sports accessory I may have been holding at the time into his righteous face (just kidding, violence is bad). But I was ten, and even though his statement didn’t seem true to me I just let him get away with it. I mean I personally fail miserably at sports, but that’s due to complete indifference and laziness, neither of which I attribute to my gender or even physical ability. And now that I think about it,…
Every year my best friend and I always watch Love Actually around the holidays. If you haven’t seen it, it’s basically the perfect Christmas movie: good actors, sappy story, lots of love. There are also a couple of musical gems in there.
Olivia Olson singing All I Want for Christmas better than Mariah (in my opinion):
So today I just got home from the SDLC (Student Diversity Leadership Conference)…and found out that I had about 200 comments waiting for approval, most of them coming from the post “Corduroy Skirts are a Sin.”
And all I can say is…holy crap, I love you guys so much. The debate on that post is insanely amazing and was fascinating to read. I’m glad so many people found it interesting and that people all over the world were able to hear about Chris Pesto’s amazing activism.
But I also want to say I’m really sorry that so many of you had to wait that long to have your comments approved! They’re all up there now — I was NOT trying to silence anyone, which a few people seemed worried about, I just…
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