Yes, darling. That red all over your hands IS blood.

[heidicullinan]

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[drachenmina]

Ugh. Clicked link.

Need to go have a shower, now.

[heidicullinan]

Yeah. I clicked it and had to rant.

[justacat]

You know, you are exceptionally eloquent and articulate when you write about these topics (well, all the time, but I notice it here in particular, because I read so much in this subject area); you express so exceptionally clearly and effectively ideas and stories that people need to hear, and your posts deserve to have a much wider audience

[heidicullinan]

Thank you very much for your compliments. Though I feel a bit bad because I deliberately let snark and anger out in this one, and I try hard not to. (I had the GLAAD media training!) Sometimes you just can't stop the slap that wants to come out of your hand.

[justacat]

GLAAD media training is fantastic, isn't it?! I did it for the first time here in DC during National Equality Weekend last year, but since then I've done lots of other work with GLAAD; I think they're a fabulous organization, and I've actually become the co-chair of their chapter here (just for perspective, I, like you, am a married (to a man) woman who feels very fiercely and passionately about these issues).

I don't think you should feel bad. I think that expressing anger is sometimes the appropriate - even the only adequate - response, especially when it's done the right way: your "slaps" and "snark" never come across as irrational or hysterical diatribes, but rather as impassioned, articulate, pointed - and very appropriately barbed.

So again, keep it up! :-)

[heidicullinan]

Well, thank you for the vote of confidence. :) Yes, GLAAD media training is awesome. They've trained me out of and into some phrases.

[libby_drew]

*clapclapclap*

Not that such truths will ever penetrate her teeny tiny little brain, but still... well-spoken.

[heidicullinan]

Yeah. I felt better for getting it out of my system.

[steinsgrrl]

Thank goodness there are people like you who can be articulate after reading something like that, people who can throw logic and decency in her face, because she's obviously not so familiar with it. I, on the other hand, tend to sputter. I get so angry that I just seem to forget English. Good for you, and for the other people leaving comments, taking her to task.

[heidicullinan]

It helps that she's attacking and demeaning people I love. I have difficulty defending myself, but mess with people I love, and as the Wee Free Men say, you're gonna get such a kickin' and a face full o' heid.

[josephine_myles]

What utter, mind-blowing ignorance. Words fail me.

Having worked with/known so many substance "abusers" over the years, I can honestly say that everyone I have encountered with problematic drug use was self-medicating to help them deal with either physical or mental trauma. This Gallagher woman is seriously confusing symptoms and causes. What a cretin.

[heidicullinan]

Yeah, there was that too. It's hard to know where to start lecturing her, really.