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WCDT Strips 4331-4335 (18-22, August 2020)
snubnose:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 18 Aug 2020, 03:10 ---[...] They're not sure if you're a vampire.
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For the record: I'm definitely a vampire. I dont like the sun. I got a sunburn two weeks ago and it still friggin hurts. And I used a factor 30 protection creme and applied it twice. :-\ Still wasnt enough. :-\
Sun = evil !!!
sitnspin:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 18 Aug 2020, 05:50 ---
--- Quote from: Farideh on 15 Aug 2020, 14:47 ---I had my first serious (and only) relationship at 19, and ended up marrying him. Which is great in many ways, although I sometimes wonder if I have 'missed out' on anything by not dating around more. Luckily my husband is the kind of person I can talk to about things like that.
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I got married at 21 and divorced at 23. If you're still happy, then I don't think you've missed out on anything.
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Married at 21, widowed at 24, and I concur.
What matters is that you are happy. Mind you, I am non-monogamous, so I never really stopped dating, but still, there is no "missing out" as there is no universal path to follow. You found someone you enjoy being with, so it sounds like you had exactly the experience you wanted /needed.
Case:
--- Quote from: immortalfrieza on 16 Aug 2020, 21:29 ---I figured as much. Considering Clinton isn't just straight out saying "I'm not gay" then presumably he is bisexual. Well, at least Clinton has had only one and very brief on screen relationship with a woman and he's stated to have little to no real success with women before then. It's not like Jeph is contradicting any previously established history here.
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I'm not so sure that not straight-up saying "I'm not gay" means that Clinton is bi - if he were a Gen-Xer or Boomer, that heuristic might make (have made?) sense, but I suspect that Millenials and Gen-Z feel much less pressure to sort themselves neatly into categories, and are much less afraid of having non-hetero thoughts and desires.
Way I remember coming of age in the late 80s/early 90s, that was still a 'thing' - you were gay or you weren't, and I doubt that many of my generation would have felt comfortable with a 'Maaaaaybe?'. And we spoke of (in-)tolerance rather than affirmation (of diversity).
Edit: When I say 'we', I mean "90s woke people" (and I agree that '90s woke' isn't very woke at all) - there was a lot of hostility towards queer people, and a lot of "tolerance for intolerance" even from 'progressives'.
gprimr1:
I do agree that it is a different dymanic.
It is very interesting to hear different perspectives, and especially those who have found that "maybe" can mean "yes" in the context of dating (not in terms of consent.)
In my experience, if I ask someone out and they reply with anything other than a yes, it is a no. If I follow up on a maybe, they will either give me another maybe, a "no" or simply not reply.
N.N. Marf:
--- Quote from: Case on 18 Aug 2020, 09:36 ---Edit: When I say 'we', I mean "90s woke people" (and I agree that '90s woke' isn't very woke at all) - there was a lot of hostility towards queer people, and a lot of "tolerance for intolerance" even from 'progressives'.
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The way I see it, intolerance should be considered a disorder, sometimes debilitating---if the intolerant person finds himself unable to interact well with the persons he cannot tolerate. I don't think tolerance of intolerance necessarily condones intolerance, but is simply the ability to interact with the intolerant person. I'm quite tolerant of intolerance---to wit, I've years tolerant cohabitation with an aggressive bigot---but that doesn't stop me avoiding intolerants, discouraging intolerance.
--- Quote from: gprimr1 on 18 Aug 2020, 11:36 ---In my experience, if I ask someone out and they reply with anything other than a yes, it is a no. If I follow up on a maybe, they will either give me another maybe, a "no" or simply not reply.
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I think the reason for this is that, by default, you're not in the relationship, and entering a relationship requires all parties' consent. I prefer having a firm ``yes,'' before considering myself in a relationship, because it makes my internal bookkeeping about it cleaner. The way I have it is that, if there's no firm ``yes,'' then the relationship that is the case might be something that's very similar, and sometimes it's only later acknowledged by all parties, at which point it could be that the only difference in the relationship is that just before, there wasn't the acknowledgement, and then there was.
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