“I Have Nightmare Eyes”

oh my god i need him. please let me have him. i need him. i need him so bad.

Steve : Goddamn

Y/N looking around : So you are a drug dealer right?

Eddie, confused : Yes, why

Y/N : Do you have some of it here

Steve : Really, right now

Y/N : If I am going to die, at least let me die peacefully

Robin : We are not going to die.

the plot:

When I was three years old, and my mother was pregnant with my little brother, I asked my parents where babies came from, and in response, they bought me a "Visible Woman" anatomy model, and read me books about human biology, including human reproductive biology. As a result, I become a huge anatomy nerd. I learned organs and bones the way that other little kids learned dinosaurs. I took my Visible Woman doll to show and tell. And whenever I had a question, even an awkward one (eg. "but how does the sperm get all the way to her uterus?") my parents answered it – enthusiastically, and completely clinically.

Again, I was three. A vagina and a penis were about as sexual to me as a spleen and a gallbladder were, and my parents talked about them in roughly the same manner. "Some organs are used for digesting food – some organs are used for breathing air and pumping blood – and these organs can be used for making a baby. You baby brother is growing inside your mommy's uterus because your parents had sex, and that allowed two cells to meet, and those two cells have grown and grown, and become more cells, and it's going to become a whole person! Isn't science cool?" I learned what sex was, and what an erection was, and all of the other mechanics of human reproduction, at a level of granularity far beyond what almost anyone is actually proposing for teaching in schools, and sexual desire never entered into it. Not even close; not even once.

When I hear people claim that teaching about sex is grooming, it raises my hackles way up because... how are you imagining teaching a child about sex, if it reads as grooming to you? My parents taught me about the human body because science is wonderful and knowledge is power. I'd teach my own children in exactly the same way. How would you do it?

If you think that the only way to talk about sex is to be overtly sexual with the person that you're talking to? If the only way you can imagine an adult explaining sex to a child is by abusing them? That's a you problem, and you need help.

Mackie: