Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.
Dan SavageDon't move to Seattle and write a stupid sex advice column. That's a waste of time and you need to grow up and get serious.
Dan SavageSchool is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.
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