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WCT: October 19-23, 2009

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The Duke:
When I get out of school, I am studying to become a hoodiologist.

pwhodges:

--- Quote from: Thorbard on 25 Oct 2009, 09:40 ---Is this the first time we've seen Marten in a non-black hoodie?

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By no means.

Near Lurker:
Just, for the record, folks?  I'm a registered Republican.

syrupykeyboard:

--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 25 Oct 2009, 03:57 ---Syrupykeyboard and Fenriswolf deserve a hug. Or anything else that would make them feel better.

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Can I get some Lortab?  :-D

Fenriswolf:

--- Quote from: Ravenswing on 24 Oct 2009, 03:04 ---
--- Quote from: Fenriswolf on 23 Oct 2009, 16:53 --- It has made me feel suicidal that I will always be seen and perceived as a woman no matter what I do, that every "masculine" thing I like and do (almost everything) will have to be proven, that any time I want to play with femininity I have to accept being treated as a "girl" ... So yes, if gender roles went away, if people accepted sexuality, interests and behaviour as a spectrum then I would be happy in my skin. But that will never happen. And the fact that despite not coping at all with being female sometimes I don't actually feel I AM male (if it was easy I probably would change my sex) means I really respect that some people do.
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Which suggests that substantively, you agree with me.
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Did you read the point? I am extremely affected by my hatred of gender roles being applied to me... and I am not transgender. I am not a man. Transgender people are exactly what they claim to be. Trans women can be butch. Trans men can be camp. Trans people are what they say they are and you do not have the right to reclassify their experiences.


--- Quote ---Will this ever change?  Probably not in what's left of my lifetime, no.  But c'mon.  I'm from Massachusetts, and if you had told me as recently as six years ago that I'd not only see single-sex marriage in my lifetime, it'd be celebrated in my own community within a year, I'd have advised you to lay off the hallucinogens.  This in a state - one so strongly identified with liberalism that it's used as a slur nationwide - where I grew up in an area so lily white and Pleasantville-ish that I went until my fifth birthday before I ever saw a black person in the flesh, gay bars lacked signs for safety reasons well into my 20s, and to be a "faggot" was the worst thing in the world when I was a kid, even if we didn't have any clear idea what that actually meant.  If that was ostensibly liberal Massachusetts in the 1960s, heaven alone knows what backcountry Mississippi was like.

The world's changing in front of our eyes at a staggering rate, and that's a comforting thing.  I certainly won't live to see the day when none of this will matter.  You may.
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Well, I think you're laughably optimistic. For humans to evolve our lifestyles to the point of fluid gender roles, open sexuality, no racism, religious bigotry, ableism or classism, we would have to change human nature. Maybe in a couple of thousand years we will stop needing a way to feel superior to others, and something to reassure us that we matter and our lives have purpose.

EDITED TO ADD:

--- Quote from: syrupykeyboard on 25 Oct 2009, 12:25 ---
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 25 Oct 2009, 03:57 ---Syrupykeyboard and Fenriswolf deserve a hug. Or anything else that would make them feel better.

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Can I get some Lortab?  :-D

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lol! Are you sure that's what you want??


--- Quote ---SIDE EFFECTS:
*shallow breathing, slow heartbeat;
*feeling light-headed, fainting;
*confusion, fear, unusual thoughts or behavior
*seizure (convulsions);
*problems with urination; or
*nausea, stomach pain, loss of appetite, itching, dark urine, clay-colored stools, jaundice (yellowing of the skin or eyes).

Less serious Lortab side effects may include:
*feeling anxious, dizzy, or drowsy;
*mild nausea, vomiting, upset stomach, constipation;
*headache, mood changes;
*blurred vision;
*ringing in your ears; or
*dry mouth.
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:-o

I'd be happy with a cocktail party. Yup.  :lol:

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