Good cat

If #1 were also internally screaming to the point of needing to then find comfort in distraction, #1.

Just gonna leave this here…

My father in a phonecall with me: “That area isn’t safe for you? You need to tone it down.”

Me: a woman, confused what I’m being told to ‘tone down’

All my local bookstores have big “BANNED BOOKS” sections right in front of the front doors, covered in rainbow flags.

Not like, the closest bookshelves, but RIGHT in front of the doors. If you stood on the sidewalk and looked in through the glass doors, you could see each and every book, the write ups, and look at their cover arts.

That is… Quite the picture.

The first? Ever? Huh… That seems really surprising to me.

Me: shocked

Oh yeah I get you completely. Honestly, sometimes I refer to “the gays” too. I’m just cautious with it’s usage and when things get technical to use queer, because I think it’s more accurate, encompassing, and less…casual?

Also, well aware of the egg prime directive. I know a guy who is a minor celebrity and absolutely an egg but refuses to crack that shell at all because it would be a hassle. I have mixed feelings about discussing it with him, I try not to push him, but gods he needs pushing hahaha

Why do cults hate queers? I would think you could just write us in as like… Subservient to the family as extra resources or something.

It’s probably the afterlife thing. You need people to make babies so that people are afraid and cope properly by relying on your cult. Can’t reinforce your cult with people who aren’t going to recruit the strongest members: brainwashed from birth.

That, and the existence of gays asks a lot of questions about existence that VERY MUCH destroy the logic of what the cults need to survive.

I’m on the fence about that one. I think in queer company, sure. But non-queer people saying that feels … Ignorant and disrespectful.

I had an argument with a very drunk friend of mine when we were like 20, years ago. He was basically spouting biphobic stuff at me that “it’s all gay”, that “bi? You’re just gay” and stuff like that. It felt really belligerent, homophobic, dismissive, and belittling, all at the same time.

So umbrellaing under gay, to me, is dangerous, optics-wise.

The way I see it is that there is only lgbt(qts+etc). It’s all the single banner, with more specific banners underneath, all allied. I refuse to ever use a fragmented name/letters because it doesn’t exist that way and never should. Even seeing it as that way in comments gives me the ick. It’s “the rest of us”, not, “this other thing”. Does that make sense?

I think it’s potentially even good…

As long as you remember that they will stab you in the back, and the face and the heart, and then turn their backs on anybody in need. Because they are a corporation, and not a person, an entity, or anything with an opinion or a face, because they are just a corporation, that is ran by real people with a corporate agenda and all with their own goals and opinions.

They are not people, they do not care about people because they CAN not care about people, because they can not care, because they are a corporation, a machine.

Did they change it?

Something about xitter also has this sophomoric zit acne feel. And the name is weird, too.

It passed the house, no surprise there. Now, what happens in the Senate… Will trump become a king and defeat the United States? Will Congress, like Biden, give trump the keys?

A of of hrt is reversible. Most of it, actually, depending on your starting age. But, YMMV.

For me, I literally did just basically what you’re describing and it worked out fine for me.