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I do not mean to be rude but you initially told me you were non-binary, now you say you are transitioning. If you are non-binary what are you transitioning to exactly? That said, I do find you example disturbing but not for the reasons you are describing.
To where im more comfortable. Some nonbinary folk do go on hormones. I'm hoping that going on T will make my body more androgynous. As I'll have permanant effects from female puberty and from going on T. Either way I'd likely be more comfortable in a more masculine body. My gender is more masc but im not a man.
When and were I grew up (rural Indiana, 80's and 90's), "******" was the default insult, and "gay" was the usual descriptor for something being lame.
I’m very sorry to read this. This issue is extremely hard for the general public (including myself) to understand…much more so than, for instance, homosexuality. Even so, kindness and empathy to others would seem to demand support and reassurance even where there is no understanding. I don’t have to understand the issue to understand that you are a person who needs love and kindness as much as do I.
IMO she was never truely your friend. Just an acquaintance in life.
Perhaps. History is hard to truly shake, after all
Well, what is the appropriate window to keep Christmas (or winter holiday) decorations up? (I find it somewhat interesting that Pride Month is at the exact opposite time of year as Christmas.)
From midnight on December 24th through midnight on December 26th, IMO. The ridiculous “Santa Claus” charade bugs the heck out of me, along with all the “Jesus” stuff (but that last part is just a personal theological opinion).
I put a couple of strings of white LED (Christmas) lights around the bookshelves in my living room to help brighten it up inside during the cold dark winter. I really appreciated them during the winter. In fact, I like them so much that I just keep them up all year round.
Definitely, along with some words (for a different group) I've really only heard there or WWII stuff. Even into the 2010s I still heard many inappropriate things amd it was still an sea of Confederate flags (including the occasional Stars and Bars).
Not to butt in but...
I know.
Amd it's been banned, more than once.
Till the 6th of Jan!!?
This is true in New England, as well, and I suspect everywhere in the country. I think there to be a psychological reason for this having to do with the way that the phonetics of words effect us in the saying…that many of these words remain popular for the same underlying reason as that which made them the most popular descriptors for homosexuality, and that is that the phonetics of the words lend them a certain “punch” which adds satisfaction to the insult from the perspective of the sayer. This popularization of phonetically strong words seems to be a common phenomenon within American vulgar speech. We see this same thing with the so-called “n word”, which has taken on an entirely new life devoid of it’s original meaning among American young people, having come to mean something like “mate”, “pal”, “boy”, etc., in its reformulated spelling of “nigga”. In fact, it has largely replaced said older words to render that meaning among many young people, both “white” and “black” (hate those terms). This phenomenon is a notable part of the increasing vulgarization of American speech, and is one which I find particularly bothersome. It is very curious to me that the term “gay” should have come to mean something like “lame” or “wrong” in light of the fact that the true, original meaning was (is?) “happy”!
I think because they are, rather, innate behavioral predispositions. The “heterosexual” or “homosexual” lifestyle is the inevitable result of heterosexuality or homosexuality, but sexuality doesn’t refer to lifestyle but to predisposition that a person is born with.
