Talk Hard!

Fellow blogger Erin at A Dress A Day wrote in Oct 2006 about how You Don’t Have to be Pretty. A friend just pointed me to the post and I wanted to share.  For both boys and girls, there is a lot of emphasis these days on how you look.  As Erin points out, how you look is not going to be the most lasting thing about you, nor should it be something you feel you have to maintain for the benefit of everyone else, as though you were constantly onstage. So go read that post and think about being happy, not just with the way you look, but with your whole self.

Mainly, that abstinence-only education materials in Texas were found to be factually inaccurate in addition to being ineffective.

The money quote comes in the comments:

How do we fight this?

Follow the school board elections and fight for people who believe that students deserve an accurate education and a decent shot at growing up before becoming parents.