See, this goes past bad and into its own form of art via decay and degradation
southsamurai
I'll fucking say it again, if trans athletes have such a big advantage, where are all the new world records?
People are idiots
A well designed paper plane
Six feet under. Tbh, I hear that theme any time a Dexter or 911 rerun is on too.
Strangely, not the case for American horror story, or any of the rest of the cast's later big shows.
Why Mr or Ms or Mrs bell is being targeted, I have no clue, but I have their back
Whoa, now, let's not be hasty.
It isn't just the brits that can't abide such rude behavior
believe it or not, there are places where naked beachgoing, at lakes, oceans, rivers, whatever is pretty unremarkable.
Hell, I'm the US, in the bible belt, and there's a fairly popular swimming hole that people will go to that's super loved for skinny dipping and hanging out because it's a trek to get to. Many a summer evening was spent there by my high school friend group. Some of whom were gay, some were not. And there were a few trips into the bushes for peeing that took way longer than you'd think for two dudes or two girls that were already naked to get the job done.
Mind you, those folks most have run into briars or something because after a while, you'd hear grunts and groans, and some screaming.
Strangely, all the straight folks would do is run off to fuck in the woods. Who knew that the gays never thought of trying that?!
That's what I was going to point out lol
Ikr?
I would have been giggling my way through the lab like a dork myself
Great follow-up from the successful birth via transplanted uterus
It may seem weird, but seeing this article makes me absurdly happy
Truth? It's a giant fucking country.
You get a big enough country, and you get a lot of people. More people means a better average number of connections between people.
We've losta lot of that over the last thirty or so years, but you'd be amazed at how much bullshit you can keep going through if you at least think you're not alone.
As individuals, yeah, there's a lot of people that don't have a support network of any kind, but as a whole, that is one thing we do well. And that does give you confidence. It also means that you lose confidence fast when your individual network breaks down or falls apart.
But, I'd argue that it only looks like we're especially good at it because the country is huge, in the news a lot, and we have to leverage it. I see plenty of other places in the world where extended personal connections are just as strong, but that can't reach as far because there's not as much room to expand. So networks are more localised in a country like, France maybe.
We're losing our sense of local community, but we've been gaining a sense of identity linked community. As an example, there's maybe three trans people in my actual town. But there's thousands in my state that I know of. Across the country, it's hundreds of thousands. That community, when it connects, gives the more isolated people here a confidence that they can get through the bad stuff because they have a community that transcends immediacy.
Me? I'm disabled and my town is not exactly super well designed for that. But I have connections to other disabled people, locally and afar. We function as a community that's just as important as the township itself.
Same in regard to me being left wing; in my town, I'm a minority of maybe a dozen. But I know them, and we know others in the rest of the county, and some of us are connected across the state, and online. It's a nation big enough that even if whatever label you have is a fraction of a percentage of the population, there's still hundreds or thousands of people just like you.
That's a powerful source of confidence and resilience once an individual realizes it.
Which, that's why it's important to find ways to let others know they aren't alone. Doesn't have to be big and flashy, but there's power in seeing a total stranger wearing a little pin that indicates support. Doesn't even need to be a conversation, just those little things that help build a sense of connection.
I cherish your homo genes too. Also your homo jeans, if you have them