In My Mind's Eye

I am sorry if the name of this post offends my liberal friends.  Wait.  Nevermind.  No I'm not sorry.  The story I am about to share with you is a classic example of liberal logic at it's best. If You Send Your Kid To Private School, You Are A Bad Person. Yes, that really is the title of an article written and posted on Slate this morning.  The title itself is a joke, but surely the article can't be as bad as it's title makes it sound.  Right?  Wrong. If you feel up to reading it, please do so.  If not, I'm here to point out some of the more asinine statements made by Ms. Benedikt.   You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like  murderer bad—but bad like  ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid  bad. So, pretty bad. Let's start with the opening sentence.  You aren't as bad as the Ft. Hood Shooter, or even George Zimmerman, ...

My daughter was looking through posts on facebook the other night when she came across a term she didn't know:  Cisgendered.  I didn't have a clue either, so we looked it up. Cisgender  and  cissexual  (often abbreviated to simply  cis ) describe related types of  gender identity  where an individual's self-perception of their gender matches the sex they were  assigned  at birth. So we need a term to describe people who are okay with either having male sex organs or female sex organs.   I look around our country and watch politicians and regular people alike assign everyone they know to a group.  White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Male, Female, and now we have....Cisgender. There used to be a time when we encouraged our children not to label people based on the circumstances of their birth.  We told our kids not to judge a book by it's cover.  Now, all we do is separate our socie...