What a jerk! I'm sorry, Zenkitty.
I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Calli - Mar 13, 2017 1:22:43 am PDT #8429 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Laura - Mar 13, 2017 4:16:22 am PDT #8430 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Wow, Zenkitty! I'm sorry, but yeah better done with that one. I would say WTF is wrong with people, but I know, and that part is depressing.
-t - Mar 13, 2017 5:04:27 am PDT #8431 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Wow, Zen, I'm sorry. Gold star to you for taking the risk, though. The only way to find out if you can trust someone is to trust them, and sometimes you find out you can't.
Connie Neil - Mar 13, 2017 6:09:16 am PDT #8432 of 30002
brillig
My co-workers who were here yesterday were using the internal messaging system to debate Oxford commas. I'm so glad I work with geeks.
Toddson - Mar 13, 2017 6:12:08 am PDT #8433 of 30002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I'm always figured that bisexual meant you were picky about the person but not the gender. Willing to admit to being wrong on that, but it's something I picked up on in college when one of the boys went for the pretty.
Jesse - Mar 13, 2017 6:20:22 am PDT #8434 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So I've spent half the morning talking about tomorrow's storm and what's going to happen. It sounds like the odds are pretty good for a snow day, which would be amazing. I told my team I'd be in if the office is open, because in general I hate working from home and I live so close (and have no leave time yet), but I now think that was basically ridiculous. So now I'm just hoping for a snow day!!!
Tom Scola - Mar 13, 2017 6:36:32 am PDT #8435 of 30002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I really need to eat more plants, especially at lunchtime, but the chopped salad line intimidates me.
P.M. Marc - Mar 13, 2017 7:21:12 am PDT #8436 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I'm always figured that bisexual meant you were picky about the person but not the gender. Willing to admit to being wrong on that, but it's something I picked up on in college when one of the boys went for the pretty.
Well, I haven't always been picky about the person...
If you want to get complicated/precise, it's going to be "feels sexual attraction to own and different genders" which isn't always the same, apparently, as "feels romantic attraction to own and different genders" which would be biromantic. You could be bisexual & hetero or homoromantic (I've known people who could be described by both these, though the homoromantic ones I know have always identified as lesbians, even when they randomly hooked up with dudes on the regular) and biromantic but, say asexual. Or bisexual and aromantic. Precise as these labels are, I occasionally--by which I mean often--feel that the more granular you get, the more they become helpful more for sorting out dating than they are for, I dunno, fighting oppression. But that's me being old and cranky.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 13, 2017 7:40:23 am PDT #8437 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Really, "not straight" should be all we need for banding together and fighting oppression, all the gradations and different flavors should only matter to us and the people we have relationships (or casual fun) with.
Laura - Mar 13, 2017 7:52:24 am PDT #8438 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
The whole not "touching" people because they are a gender that you have had a sexual relationship with in life is making me very cranky. I would be perfectly delighted to hug, snuggle, hold hands or be generally affectionate with lots and lots of my friends, including all y'all that are huggers. This is a whole other thing than an interest in or invitation for sex!!!