Franklin High School Student Discussing Homophobic Bullying Interrupted By Parent During Committee Meeting

This headline gives us SO MUCH stupid, rudeness and bigotry to unpack, that I could write on it until the Earth became repopulated with dinosaurs at pre- ice- age numbers and you’d still be reading.

Let’s start with the interruption itself.

Children interrupt their parents when they feel insecure about their chances of being heard. Grown ups (especially narcissistic ones) interrupt when they feel insecure about their own…