Four days without writing.
Bliss.
My head is quiet.
Today, in addition to being Thursday of Teen Read Week, is also Spirit Day for the Trevor Project. It's a day when we carefully think about acceptance and love for all kids.
I don't like the word "tolerate."
It sounds like a chore you would be forced to do to put up with something unpleasant, like bad breath or something.
Just to be "civil," which is a stuck-up way to be.
If all you do is "tolerate" LGBTQ kids, then the best you can expect is for other human beings to "tolerate" you, because you stink, or shit like that.
Make yourself more pleasant than that.
Smell nice.
Love kids.
Go put on something purple.
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Yes.
Tolerance is for shit like rules and the government, not for people, and definitely not for kids.
I'm expecting to hear from Jake's principal later today. The other day he wore a shirt with the slogan FCKH8, which, as you know, is pro-gay marriage. (He's not gay, he's just become very politically passionate. )
Both the vice principal and the principal pulled him aside to tell them the shirt was "inappropriate." At which point Jake quoted extensively from the student manual, and went on to quote case law, both state and federal. He absolutely lawyered them.
Today he's wearing the shirt again. I almost feel sorry for the principal. Welcome to my life, sir.
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