Then she should probably post on libertarian blogs.

I’m a kinetic learner. I think with my hands. Even when I’m sitting down and reading I unconsciously act out the text. These jokes about jumping forward and backwards for a test would have been GREAT for me, I could dance it out. Win! But I still hated PE, because we never learnt anything and it was no fun so I just never went.

My mum was a PE teacher back when it was still called games, and at home that’s what did, played GAMES, and that was fun and taught me all sorts of mental (strategy, teamwork) and physical discipline. We always did practical or fun things: lifesavers, orienteering, sailing (island dweller). S’more practical and inclusive, too: you can play hotstove in a wheelchair, you can go rambling if you’re blind, you can swim with mixed ages…

I’ve wandered. Uh. Oh, point being, PE clearly isn’t about learning physical skills or fostering ability, it’s about teaching you to surrender control of your body to authority. If it were it would be teaching practical, environment-focused things like the aforementioned orienteering, car-dodging for city kids, lifesavers for coastal kids, self-defense…

And now I shall go enjoy some Funny Games US, which is a horrific movie, remade shot for shot from a superior horrific movie. I do think it was better in the original Austrian. They were scarier.

“Just as I thought you humorless, Stalinist hags were getting up to make your fifth trip to the buffet, it turned out you were really telling me to go to hell because you refuse to be objectified so I can’t wack off to pictures of you on the Internet in my grandma’s basement. So then I scratched my butt and pulled my head out of my ear and exclaimed “Well surprise me cunt!” Put my Viagra (concrete noun) in my tampon collection and call me a baboon’s mother.”

Most people coming from the places our trolls have come from lately are men. People who call women “humorless hags” are misogynists, and many misogynists are men. It was a reasonable assumption, Sarah.

You are not a wimp, you are not weak, you are not a baby, because you would prefer to avoid pain.

This is as a person with a disabling chronic pain condition.

Pain is not a bad thing, it is not a good thing, it does not prove a person’s strength or weakness, their worth or worthlessness, their bravery or cowardliness.

It’s just pain. It hurts. Most people don’t like that feeling. That’s that.

Don’t beat yourself up because you don’t like excessive pain. It’s just how you roll. If you keep beating yourself like that, the dents are gonna make it a pretty bumpy roll. :p

“Just as I thought you humorless, Stalinist hags were jumping, it turned out you were really just smiling. So then I scratched my leg and pulled my head out of my foot and exclaimed ‘Well, yay! Put my balloon in my John Barrowman and call me a Ilizard’s aunt.”