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  1. I am so confused by the amoxicillin article. I mean I get it – I’m allergic to it, so I’ve never had the stuff (at least in memory). But what??? Some sort of liquid, sweet, goo antibiotic?? to cure ear infections?? That’s weird. I’ve had a bajillion ear infections in my life and I just can’t imagine having to take some weird sweet goo for them. I didn’t even know that’s what that was, it’s just been a name of the one medicine I’m allergic to. This makes me question things. Is it good? is it cough syrup-y? What is this whole side of antibiotics I didn’t know about??

    • Counterpoint: Nah, amoxicillin was gross and you are not missing out. It had a flavor profile that tasted like chalky antacids mixed with cloyingly sweet “bubble gum” artificial flavoring but also somehow mixed with cocktail bitters. Also, it was opaque and looked like milk that someone dyed with Barbie-pink food coloring.

    • I havent read the article yet but im assuming that amoxicillin is the antibiotic i used to know as ‘banana flavoured medicine’ and loved as a child, despite the fact that everytime i had it i was struggling to breath from recurrent chest infections. Bloody hell i loved that stuff.

      • Having read the article it looks like it was only banana flavoured in the UK. Also i cant imagine trying to please all the children in the world with one acceptable flavour for medicine, but not please them too much so they don’t want more. Thats a job someone else can have.

  2. I am going to keep reading these nuanced articles that call out call-out culture until the paradox rips a hole in the fabric of space-time and I can escape to Earth-2 where Hillary is president.

  3. Stories about gay/bisexual teachers losing their jobs are always so messed up. I’ve been very lucky to work in a pretty tolerant school and district, but it still makes me nervous. Just one person feeling weird about it and voicing that could derail an entire career.

  4. “There are a myriad of reasons why there are so few older members of our community – AIDS, suicide and a harsher social context with older generations – to name a few. I can only imagine the bittersweet feeling they must have of watching their dreams come to fruition as “the gayest generation” blossoms in front of them, only to be so excluded and brutally treated by it.”

    • When I was much younger, I wasn’t willing to give people space or time; to absorb, to learn, to adapt. I presented them with my truth and demanded that they reflect it back to me immediately, or they were wrong, or worse. The older I get, the more willing I am to give people that room. Things take time, and that’s the tragedy of youth- especially queer youth. Youth doesn’t have time to give. Queer youth doubly so. We still don’t all make it, after all. I’m not sure how to impress on someone who’s 15 or 18 that a third of their life is (to someone else) no time at all. I’m starting to lose my grasp on that frantic immediacy myself. I can hope that we can nurture compassion and respect in our communities, so that more of us survive to the point where we can look back on ourselves as kids and think “wow, was I really that impatient? was I really ever that sure?” because honestly that may be how you know you’re a grown-up.

  5. So excited to see Julien Baker in December!!! Now if only Tegan & Sara would come here again. I read that NPR story on The Con at 6:30 am so that’s probably the only reason I didn’t also cry at it.

  6. The Twitter link reads: “@grrreen fondly remembers The Con and wonders why white men are still allowed to have opinions.” I linked the two together in my mind, since my least favorite of the commentaries on The Con were the ones written by the white men. It should have just been all women!

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