If you're reading my work here in chronological order, the last thing of mine you saw was a very impassioned and, perhaps, somewhat drunkenly emotional plea to end gender stereotyping in the horror community. Though I stand by what I said, it was also a tremendously dour piece, discussing a very serious and very hurtful topic. So I decided that my follow-up to it would be something altogether more positive.

I've been thinking a lot about elementary school lately. Despite the fact that I went to a Catholic school in St. Louis, my early education came with a healthy dose of progressive politics. There was a hard-line on church doctrine, to be sure, but matters unrelated to sex and procreation were presented to us in a surprisingly liberal framework.