Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.

'Serenity'


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.


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2017 8:53:23 am PDT #8441 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

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.

And woe unto people who use a label that's extremely helpful but other people believe doesn't exist. (I realize that can apply to "bisexual," though I was thinking of "demisexual.")


Beverly - Mar 13, 2017 9:00:21 am PDT #8442 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Zen, I'm sorry you had the experience, but glad it was early in what would certainly have developed into a toxic relationship.

I hold my biromantic demisexual designation close, because after a lifetime of confusion and feeling "wrong," it explains *so* much. But I use queer when there's no time, purpose, or point for explaining 'biromantic demisexual' to strangers.


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2017 9:10:17 am PDT #8443 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

But I use queer when there's no time, purpose, or point for explaining 'biromantic demisexual' to strangers.

I don't explain shit to strangers about my sexuality, because it's none of their business. They're going to look at me and assume I'm a bog-standard straight woman, and whatevs. I have zero interest in discussing my sexuality with people who are not (1) going to participate in it, and/or (2) very close friends.* Everyone else can assume whatever they want to.

*(Okay, exemption for my OB/GYN, who needs to know what's going on in the ladyparts so we can discuss birth control options.)


sumi - Mar 13, 2017 9:15:30 am PDT #8444 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!

Zen - sorry about the jerk.

What kind of person doesn't touch or hug friends that they aren't having or possibly having sex with? Do these people not kiss their mom? Babies? Hug their siblings? They live sad lives - particularly for social primates such as humans.

Also: I bought a pour over coffeemaker and it rocks. So simple. Just enough coffee for me and it's cheap. Also: the coffee is not at all bitter.


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2017 9:17:18 am PDT #8445 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

What kind of person doesn't touch or hug friends that they aren't having or possibly having sex with?

There are people I don't hug, but it has nothing to do with the potential of sex (or lack thereof). I just have a 50-foot personal bubble.


sumi - Mar 13, 2017 9:19:30 am PDT #8446 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!

I don't hug everyone but what she said was just weird, rude and otherwise off-putting.


Steph L. - Mar 13, 2017 9:20:27 am PDT #8447 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Oh, I totally agree.


-t - Mar 13, 2017 9:47:05 am PDT #8448 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

Sudden urge to watch Pushing Daisies


sumi - Mar 13, 2017 9:59:41 am PDT #8449 of 30002
Art Crawl!!!

You know, if she can't touch anyone because they'll die. . .she could have just said that.


shrift - Mar 13, 2017 10:32:37 am PDT #8450 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Remember my problematic "friend"?

Oh dear. This is the same friend with the drinking issues?

I'm sorry about the pain, but I'm not sorry that you're kicking a toxic person to the curb.