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Photo by   Rinson Chory   on  Unsplash . . Being a white male myself, I have the ability to speak for all white men, now, and those from whenever. Thank you white men for that honor. It is a similar honor you have bestowed many millions of times on the only person of color in a classroom with 29 white classmates, i.e. to speak for everyone of their color. With these reins bestowed on me to stow away the pale ancients, I have the power of a billion white sons, all the way to great, great, great, and a thousand more generations of white great grandsons. I would ask you to kneel, but I do not want to overstep my massive authority. . Some may consider my idea as that of burning books; I would rather have it compared to burning heretics at the stake. If you white men think about it for a second   ( which you likely haven’t), white men have been doing all kinds of terrible things for millennia. That makes what I am proposing a performance of justice. Justice delayed as lon...

Photo by   Mateus Campos Felipe   on  Unsplash First published on Medium . . First, “sexism” stands in for   genderism   in title. There are also barely enough “V” words to choose from for writing the most cogent of alliterations, but I did my   ornery   best. . Second, I want to avoid giving away the plot, or accidentally spout spoilers. As you may have already noticed, I struggle to regulate my thoughts. Actually, I have gotten much better since 3rd grade. That said, sex is hard for many to talk about.   Right there; I did it again!   Anyway, our prudish sensibilities, and our lack of updated training in the language and understanding of sexuality, let alone gender, is legion, and a lesion on society. . Mom and dad should teach it. Surely don’t teach such important things in schools. The church should teach it. With the church guiding the lessons, mom and dad should teach it. (Maybe dad shouldn’t teach it?) What if a 3rd grader neighborhoo...