nezua:

jeralyndwile:

magicalteacher:

jackieheartsb:

This is the first and last time I will discuss this on my blog.

My dad was my principal in high school for 3 of my 4 years. As if that wasn’t potentially alienating enough, my mother was also the registrar during that time.

Here’s the thing: I didn’t care what people thought and actually thought it was hilarious when my fellow students got caught and disciplined. If they were stupid enough to get caught, I had no sympathy.

Every now and then students would take their anger out on me, yelling at me or venting because they were angry they got caught. It was a hard position for me to be in. High school being the hotbed of teenage angst that it is forced me to choose between agreeing with my friends and looking as ridiculous as they did trying to justify their actions (“but but but, running naked and high in the hallways shouldn’t be subject to school disciplinary actions!”), or siding with my own, admittedly less popular thoughts on the subject. After the first couple times, I just stopped caring.

One of my first memories of school was when I was going into first grade. My dad was also my principal for grades one through three and my mom taught me third grade. But, I digress.

I was in the hallway of the school, just playing around as my parents put up bulletin boards or did other school-like activities and an older kid looked at me and sneered and said, “You’re the principal’s daughter, aren’t you? That sucks.” And walked off.

That always stuck with me. Why does it suck? I’m close to my parents. I’d choose my family over self-absorbed teenagers anytime. Even if it made school uncomfortable for me at times, I was never concerned with my popularity or how many boys were scared to ask me out because my dad might come after them with a hockey stick.

The reason I’m writing all this is because a former jackass (perhaps he’s reformed, doubtful) I went to high school with (who had lots of run-ins with my father) just messaged me on Facebook Chat and said, “Hahaha I just tried to add your dad as a friend.”

I didn’t write back. It took every ounce of strength in my body to close that chat window. I came up with all sorts of replies that would have duly backfired, but I didn’t say anything.

What these little children I went to high school with cannot understand is that I really don’t give a rats ass about them, their lives, or anything they are doing. I keep in touch with less than 10 (maybe less than 5) people from high school because that’s about the number that are actually worth something to humanity and society.

I hope they get alcohol poisoning in their little sad alumni get-togethers in which they reminisce about barely passing any of their classes and changing their major 10 times to prolong real life all while working at their local Abercrombie & Fitch.

Pretending you are in high school and that it still matters at the age of 24? Priceless.

Cheers, losers. Have fun folding polos.

“What these little children I went to high school with cannot understand is that I really don’t give a rats ass about them, their lives, or anything they are doing. I keep in touch with less than 10 (maybe less than 5) people from high school because that’s about the number that are actually worth something to humanity and society.

I hope they get alcohol poisoning in their little sad alumni get-togethers in which they reminisce about barely passing any of their classes and changing their major 10 times to prolong real life all while working at their local Abercrombie & Fitch.

Pretending you are in high school and that it still matters at the age of 24? Priceless.

Cheers, losers. Have fun folding polos.”

MY FAVORITE PART OF THE WHOLE THING. THIS IS EXACTLY HOW I FEEL.

oh yeah? wishing people get alcohol poisoning?

you do know, some people have alcohol ODs in their families? clearly, its nothing to you. bah to them, eh?

it takes nothing special to wish harm on people. i can easily wish a bonecrushing hospital incident on my principal or your relative if they be in the school system. we can go back and forth. we can smack each other in the teeth. cheers, loser. sadism and schadenfreude is cheap to come by and requires nothing more than skimming the lowest levels of our own personal dungeons.

you ain’t special cuz you angry. and hey. fuck the principal and his whole family.

that’s fair, right?

Yeah, agree with Nezua. I’m not sure how wishing people harm makes anything better. It’s ok to not give a “rat’s ass” about someone. I’m not a person that believes everything should be “forgive and forget.” But “hop[ing] they get alcohol poisoning in their little sad alumni get-togethers in which they reminisce about barely passing any of their classes and changing their major 10 times to prolong real life all while working at their local Abercrombie & Fitch” sounds a lot like “Pretending you are in high school and that it still matters at the age of 24” to me.

Same coin, different side.

I’m just saying…

writinggirl2writingwoman:

thecurvature:

ohfortheloveofdog:

vindicatedcommunications:

Once you state that you’re terrified of everything the Republicans stand for, I don’t take your political opinion seriously.

It just shows that you’re ignorant or you’ve drank the Kool-Aid and frankly, I don’t want people to be blinding believing such things about either party nor do I think they’re an informed person on politics.

People, whether Dems. or GOPs, are dangerous and bad for the US political system if they can’t analyze the good and the bad in both parties.

By saying you’re against everything the Republican party stands for just tells me that you know nothing about the issues that the Republican party represents other than what the TV or your political party has told you.

Gotta say: I am against everything the Republican party stands for.

Yes, I too have apparently guzzled down the Kool-Aid and am officially uninformed.

But if someone would like to point out to me one single platform of the GOP’s that I should not be absolutely terrified of as a person who supports feminism, LGBT rights, disability rights, social justice, economic justice, environmental justice, civil rights and racial justice, who doesn’t believe that a person’s life and rights have more or less worth based on which side of a border they live on, and that all of us as a society have a responsibility to each other to create the most equal and just world we can and to minimize harm no matter how many tax dollars it takes … well, I’d absolutely love to hear what bright aspects of the Republican party I’ve missed. I’d really, absolutely love to find something on which me and my congressional representative agree. Because then I’d have something to comfort myself with.

WHAT?!?!?!?!?! yeah, i know what the Republican Party stands for, and i proudly say - i am terrified and disgusted by it all. it’s not due to ignorance or drinking the Kool-aid. THE REPUBLICAN PARTY JUST SUCKS THAT BAD! nope, i’m not in love with the Democrats either. and yep, i detest the Libertarians too, again, not due to ignorance. and you know what? i don’t ALWAYS agree with or like the Green Party either! WHY do i have such opinions? BECAUSE I TOOK THE TIME TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY EACH HAVE TO SAY. Not what other people told me the folks they oppose stand for. But what each of them themselves have said they stand for. i also look at what they DO, not just what they say. And this past decade + the Republicans have been pretty blunt about what they stand for: blatant racism. blatant sexism (tho they stick together with their women the minute a person of color might be ahead in the polls). blatant ableism. unwillingness to compromise or to look at what the American people really want or need. everything about the Republican Party stance on everything SHOULD terrify you!

Oh, I love this “logic.” The only reason I could ever possibly be against something is because I’m just too stupid and uninformed to know what I’m talking about? Get outta here! I’ve done my homework and It’s this exact sort of condescencion that scares the hell out of me: the notion that people of color, women, the LGBT community, the disabled, the poor, the disadvantaged just don’t know what’s best for themselves. Did it ever occur to you that I’m terrified of the Republican Party because they are in the business of terrorizing me and the people that I love?

And I hate the phrase “drank the kool-aid.” Hate it. It’s not a coincidence to me that the fave analogy these days refers to a tragedy that led to the deaths of mostly women and black folks (Of the dead at the Jonestown Massacre, 90% were women and 80% were black, if you didn’t know). Sounds like more scare tactics to me.