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A couple days ago my mother in law and I are driving down a very busy two way street. We're passing an apartment complex with a biggish grassy area between it and the street when we see a kid, maybe two years old, toddling along in the field up ahead of us. I start glancing around for a parent, ready to make a snarky comment about parents letting their kid play by a street like that. Only there isn't a parent anywhere to be seen. I look back at the kid and he is hauling rear end for the road. We stop and I jump out of the car and run over to him, snatching him up just as he hits asphalt. So I'm standing there, looking around, hanging on to this kid, thinking surely there's going to be a frantic mom running up. Nothing. I try to talk to him and ask what his name is, or where he lives, but he doesn't respond to anything, either english or what little spanish I know. He's still in diapers so I figure maybe he's too young to talk. The whole time there's been some kids staring at us through a gap in the fence across the street, so we pull over to the side street up ahead and I go back to ask them if they know him. They say no. I find it a bit hosed up that they were just watching this kid walk towards a road without yelling or trying to stop him or anything, just staring silently at him, I guess they were just kids but poo poo, 11 or 12 is old enough to not want to watch a toddler get splattered. gently caress it. At this point there's still no parent so I settle the amazingly nonchalant kid in the backseat with my cell phone to play with and we call the police. While we're waiting I walk back to the apartment complex to see if anyone is looking for their kid, still nothing. So I go back to the car and we wait. And wait. 45 minutes later it's full on dark and the cop finally shows up, and lo and behold about 2 minutes after that the father. I open the passenger door to hand him back his child (not that I really wanted to at that point) and instead of picking him up, he just stands there, so I'm still hanging on to his son to keep him from running off into the road until the cop finally tells him to get his child. At this point about 6 other people come up, including the mom. She at least seems a bit distressed that her son was wandering around next to a busy street. Finally the cop tells us we can leave, one of the family members thanks us, and we go home. What I want to know is how the fiddler's gently caress it takes 7 grown adults 45 minutes(at least, gently caress knows how long he was actually missing) to realize the 2 year old is nowhere to be found and go looking for him. Jesus. God knows what would have happened if we hadn't seen him, it was getting dark and that stretch of road is really poorly lit.  I suppose everyone has one of those "Lost my kid in the grocery store" tales or heard something similar from their parents, but this seemed a bit more negligent to me.I tell you while I was running to catch that kid from going in the road all I could think of was that scene from Pet Sematary. I guess this isn't as much a WTC moment as a lovely Parenting Experience but we don't have a thread for that.
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I just remembered this from years ago. I was working at a restaurant for a good while, and there was this one guy, probably about 19-20 or so, who worked there for a while. I was never close to him or anything, I don't even remember his name today. I'd like to say he had a creepy vibe but if he did it was pretty mild, just a little feel of his being a joking rear end in a top hat and not all that bright. Neither was all that uncommon around there, so whatever. If he ever did anything strange on the job I either missed it or forgot it. Then one day he's gone, and turns up in the news. Pointed a gun(well, pellet gun as it turned out, I think) at some ten year old kid and told her to get into the car. When she didn't immediately he then panicked and drove off, then got caught and arrested the next day. No seeming legal history or anything, just that out of nowhere. Never saw him again, no shock, but we had the newspaper articles about his arrest and later sentencing pasted up in back for ages after, under the yellowing comic strips people had cut out of the newspaper over the years. Just that day though, coming in to work and hearing, "Hey, you hear what happened to X?" was pretty shocking.
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Oct 7, 2011 01:06
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spixxor posted:45 minutes later Television has taught me that cops don't send cars to certain parts of town very fast, usually because a cop has been assaulted there before. But who knows.
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Oct 7, 2011 01:47
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Kuros posted:A long time ago, I was at the Del Mar Fair (California) with my dad and my younger cousin who's about 2 years younger than me. We decide to get on The Zipper. Your dad or your cousin?
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Oct 7, 2011 02:18
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So, I was in Race, Gender and Media last year. It was an easy class, we were only being graded on a group project and a term paper. In an attempt to keep us engaged, the professor divided up sections of the main text, assigned them to 2-3 students and had them be the ones to introduce it and give examples in class. After that, class discussion. He's not grading it, so a minimal effort is all you need. There were two  moments, one more deserving than the other.Early in the semester, whatever we supposed to be reading about led to a class-long discussion of individuals' porn habits. Some got quite specific and one dude on the back row vividly described just how much porn he enjoyed. Then, there was the other incident. I can't remember what we were to be going over, but the guy who had examples for this loaded up first a very explicit song that I can't remember. Then, I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch. Everyone else that semester had shown very short clips, 1-3 minutes in length. That related to the material. The clip here is nine minutes. He played all nine minutes. Three students on the second row walked out. I think the professor was in shock. He didn't know whether to pull the plug, if this was actually leading somewhere, or what exactly to make of it. No one initiated class discussion. Everyone sat in silence until the professor finally, finally moved on to the next thing. The room was abuzz the next class. There were rumors that the guy had been arrested for public intoxication or sizable drug possession on Broad Street the night before and he shown up to class with no sleep and had halfway gone nuts in front of us. Professor comes in, tells us that the student has been removed from the physical class itself, but he will be allowed to continue the course. And we're not to speak of this in class again. Everyone understands and it's left alone.
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Oct 7, 2011 03:59
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spixxor posted:toddler wrangling Good for you for looking out for that kid. I suspect that may be one of the very few breaks he's going to get in his life, with a family like that. 
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Oct 7, 2011 04:08
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Recently I took my cat outside on a sunny day to brush him out. He's super-lovey, pretty talky, and generally very tolerant and gentle. So, after brushing an rear end-ton of hair out of him he slinks around the corner of the house to the propane tank, and starts sniffing it, all weird, mouth open. Then his tail puffs up. I say "Hey Ruster, come on", and he is usually pretty good with voice commands. He ignores me, still sniffing away. So I say "Rusty, buddy, come on" and touch him lightly on the back. He turns starts hissing and advancing on me swiping claws jumping at me, etc. So I'm backing away quickly, so idea what to do calling my wife's name(she's in the kitchen with the window open) and "help, help, help". Finally he is chasing me around the yard trying to gently caress me up, I run into the house and he breaks off. I say to my wife "Hey I need help!, Rust is losing his poo poo." She looks at me like I'm an idiot and follows me out. He promptly charges her, but less aggressively. Then just like a switch is thrown he's back to lovey lovey purrr-monster. He's licking my ear as I write this. WTC was how he just lost his poo poo and I at 200 lbs was terrified of a 10 lb cat. And I spent time in the Gulf in '04-'05. And have worked as a CO.
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Oct 7, 2011 06:23
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Dingleberry posted:So, after brushing an rear end-ton of hair out of him he slinks around the corner of the house to the propane tank, and starts sniffing it, all weird, mouth open.  Sounds like he smelled something interesting and didn't appreciate the disturbance. Maybe something peed on the tank.Actually maybe it's a good idea to check for leaks just to be on the safe side.
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Oct 7, 2011 07:02
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Dingleberry posted:This is really weird. In this picture, you look a lot like my girlfriend's best friend, and your cat is a carbon copy of my own cat.
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Oct 7, 2011 08:02
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Phy posted:Your dad or your cousin? Yea, I should have clarified that better, my cousin.
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Oct 7, 2011 16:27
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Your cat was freaked out about something. I'd check the tank for leaks, just to be safe. It's more likely some punkass tom pissed all over it and claimed it as his own territory, but who knows.
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Oct 8, 2011 17:33
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I was being nice to a friend's cat who was recovering from surgery after someone ran him over. When I came back home my cat began the long week of trying to kill me. I was 8 or so, I admit I had teased him often, and I guess something about the combo of scent and bad association set him off. Out of the blue he began to launch himself at my face. If I walked into a room he would start spitting and hissing. My dad got super angry and pepper sprayed the cat, he busted through it and still continued to try and kill me. It was easier since I also got pepper sprayed, what the hell dad. Since cat was now an assassin my mom took him to go get put down, but he was totally normal when I wasn't around and a vet-tech decided to take him in. I grilled her on this years later, worried it was a lie, but no, happy ending for attack cat. 
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Oct 8, 2011 19:47
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ThatZombieMegan posted:evil ginger Yup, anyone and everyone loves to come up to me and tell me about someone they know with red hair. Last time I was in the work bathroom (office building) and I come out of the stall to wash my hands and the lady standing there starts in on the 'you just missed my daughter she has the same hair color as you...' uh ok crazy lady, I'm not here to make friends.
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Oct 11, 2011 23:06
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McBeth posted:Yup, anyone and everyone loves to come up to me and tell me about someone they know with red hair. Last time I was in the work bathroom (office building) and I come out of the stall to wash my hands and the lady standing there starts in on the 'you just missed my daughter she has the same hair color as you...' uh ok crazy lady, I'm not here to make friends. Besides, you obviously would have just seen her at the monthly Gingerclan strategic planning session 
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Oct 12, 2011 00:17
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Shortly after one of my best friends died, I went out for teriyaki with some work friends. I got a fortune cookie with my food, and the fortune read "time heals all wounds. Keep your chin up." I think I stared at that drat thing for a full minute, and ended up pinning it to my work station. Only time I've ever gotten one of those things where the fortune was not super vague/lame. Disclaimer: I don't think it meant anything, it was just odd timing. Full disclosure: time hasn't healed all wounds. 
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RC and Moon Pie posted:So, I was in Race, Gender and Media last year... One of the most valuable skills a prof can learn is how to stop students from rambling on like that and disrupting the class. Fortunately (unfortunately?) nobody's ever given me cause to use these skills in any of my classes, but one of my colleagues was powerless to stop a girl from describing her rape in graphic detail in an English class. They were reading a book that discussed rape in some context, and during a perfectly ordinary class debate about the ambiguity of the scene in question the girl got up and announced that she had been raped by her uncle when she was fourteen and went on to describe the circumstances, when and where it happened, how she felt during and after, how her family reacted, etc, and it ended with her sobbing in a corner while my colleague just stood there horrified. He tried to get her to stop talking but she wouldn't listen, and after class he contacted the student mental health services and they were able to get her into counseling. I also have a WTC moment from my undergrad days. I took a human biology course, and we got onto the topic of incest and its affect on genes. This was an intro course designed for liberal arts majors, so there weren't really any bio majors or anything in the class, but this one girl was answering questions and supplying information like a pro. I don't remember exactly what she said, but it was pretty advanced (at least for a layman) stuff about the probability of various traits being passed down in incestuous couplings, what kind of genetic tests are available in utero, that sort of thing. The kind of stuff that your average non-science-major, non-premed undergrad isn't going to be aware of. Finally the professor asked her how she knew all this stuff, and her reply was, "I'm married to my first cousin and we have a child together, so we had to do a lot of testing." (For the record, this was at a good school in NYC, not at some podunk Bible college or something, and she was an average white American, not an immigrant from a country where that is common. I know that first-cousin relationships don't mean that your kid is going to be a retarded genetic freak or something, but it's so unusual and derided in mainstream American society that I was really surprised to see her casually admit it like that.)
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The Worst Unicorn posted:I was being nice to a friend's cat who was recovering from surgery after someone ran him over. When I came back home my cat began the long week of trying to kill me. I was 8 or so, I admit I had teased him often, and I guess something about the combo of scent and bad association set him off. Out of the blue he began to launch himself at my face. If I walked into a room he would start spitting and hissing. My dad got super angry and pepper sprayed the cat, he busted through it and still continued to try and kill me. It was easier since I also got pepper sprayed, what the hell dad. Since cat was now an assassin my mom took him to go get put down, but he was totally normal when I wasn't around and a vet-tech decided to take him in. I grilled her on this years later, worried it was a lie, but no, happy ending for attack cat. When I was about 4 or so I was deviling my aunts cat, Bugger. From what I've been told, I'd been hitting him on the head with a spoon.  So the cat decides he's had enough of that nonsense, and grabs onto my head and starts kicking/biting me, and I'm freaking out, though I totally deserved it. My grandmother, who was always a bit of an alarmist, ran in and kicked the poor cat down the stairs. He was fine, thank goodness, but I still feel bad about it even though I was too young to know any better at the time. Small moment of today:Derp: "All bisexual women cheat"  Me: "Do you know every bisexual woman in the world?" Derp: "No, but they know that men like to watch women make out and  "Me: 
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Some time ago my mom was dating a guy named Mike. And Mike was a generally cool guy. They had been together for a few years when I came out to my mom, and she told Mike later on. Nothing more was said until a few days or weeks later when I'm off to class and Mike and Mom are watching TV. And Mike asks, out of the blue, how two women have sex. While I stood there trying to think how to answer that, he asked, "How can it feel good, without a penis?" My mind pretty much stopped there and he repeated the question a few times before I said I had to go to class and left. Ordinarily this wouldn't have phased me but it was the first time he had said anything remotely sexual to me and he wanted real details as to how sex could feel good without a penis involved.
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Oct 12, 2011 02:59
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Cowslips Warren posted:Some time ago my mom was dating a guy named Mike. And Mike was a generally cool guy. They had been together for a few years when I came out to my mom, and she told Mike later on. Nothing more was said until a few days or weeks later when I'm off to class and Mike and Mom are watching TV. Hah, should have asked him if that meant gay male sex was twice as pleasurable as hetero sex.
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It's 3:30am here, and 6:30am where my sister lives. She's been texting me for over an hour, because she doesn't think she likes guys anymore and wants to know what to say to her boyfriend. Basically, she's mostly lesbian with the occasional straight feelings. I asked if she was weregay, because it would explain why she's asking right now and a few other things.. and then I realized tonight is a full moon.  Luckily she is very good-natured and finds the jokes hilarious because I'm not very good at advice-giving.
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Oct 12, 2011 11:30
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Mizufusion posted:It's 3:30am here, and 6:30am where my sister lives. She's been texting me for over an hour, because she doesn't think she likes guys anymore and wants to know what to say to her boyfriend. Basically, she's mostly lesbian with the occasional straight feelings. I asked if she was weregay, because it would explain why she's asking right now and a few other things.. and then I realized tonight is a full moon. wat
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Mizufusion posted:It's 3:30am here, and 6:30am where my sister lives. She's been texting me for over an hour, because she doesn't think she likes guys anymore and wants to know what to say to her boyfriend. Basically, she's mostly lesbian with the occasional straight feelings. I asked if she was weregay, because it would explain why she's asking right now and a few other things.. and then I realized tonight is a full moon. If she's mostly lesbian with occasional straightness, wouldn't that make her werestraight? Wartooth has a new favorite as of 16:04 on Oct 12, 2011 |
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Oct 12, 2011 11:55
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Wartooth posted:If she's mostly lesbian with occasional straightness, wouldn't that make here werestraight? Possibly. I'm not sure how it all works, but she's in a straight relationship and questioning it, so weregay made more sense at the time.
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Oct 12, 2011 14:16
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Mizufusion posted:It's 3:30am here, and 6:30am where my sister lives. She's been texting me for over an hour, because she doesn't think she likes guys anymore and wants to know what to say to her boyfriend. Basically, she's mostly lesbian with the occasional straight feelings. I asked if she was weregay, because it would explain why she's asking right now and a few other things.. and then I realized tonight is a full moon. Many women experience changes in sexual attraction at different times of the hormone cycle, and a very regular menstrual cycle is the length of a lunar month. So, werestraightness: don't be so quick to rule it out.
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Saeku posted:Many women experience changes in sexual attraction at different times of the hormone cycle, and a very regular menstrual cycle is the length of a lunar month. So, werestraightness: don't be so quick to rule it out. Well that explains why I was so into Matt Smith during Doctor Who last week. And yeah, some guys have a hard time contemplating the idea of lesbians, for some reason. My guyfriends are pretty cool about it but I've seen men flat out deny that lesbians exist. Just, you know, girls showing off. 
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Oct 12, 2011 15:19
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Azrael Alexander posted:And yeah, some guys have a hard time contemplating the idea of lesbians Especially if they're both hot.
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Oct 12, 2011 16:07
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Wartooth posted:Especially if they're both hot. If porn has taught us anything, aren't they all?
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Oct 12, 2011 18:08
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spregalia posted:If porn has taught us anything, aren't they all? If real life has taught us anything, no.
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My new wtc moment is this thread presenting to me the concept that anyone in the world doesn't understand the idea of lesbian sex. I guess mom's boyfriend just didn't understand non-penetrative sex Cowslips? Even with that does he not know what dildos are? Are these lesbian-denier guys unaware that male-on-top-missionary-lights-out is not the only option? . . . Are there really men who are unaware of the concept of cunnilingus?
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Action_Bastard posted:My new wtc moment is this thread presenting to me the concept that anyone in the world doesn't understand the idea of lesbian sex. Yes, there are alot of men that aren't lesbians so the ins and outs are beyond their scope/care-o-meter. To be honest I only found out about scissoring or whatever it's called post highschool.
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Oct 12, 2011 19:30
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Azrael Alexander posted:Well that explains why I was so into Matt Smith during Doctor Who last week. What's sad is that you probably don't have an idea of how rampant that kind of homophobia is IN the LGBT community against bisexual women. I've met so many lesbians who swear up and down that us bisexuals are doing it just to show off, or that it's just a phase, or we're just experimenting, usually because they got burned badly by some girl who WAS doing one or all of those things. But yeah. It's just a phase for me. A ten-year phase.
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Oct 12, 2011 19:51
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Also remember that people generally assume that gay dudes all have butt sex and love it. The idea of a relationship in which a penis does not go inside of a vagina or vagina-like object really is inconceivable to most.
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Oct 12, 2011 21:41
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Lolitas Alright! posted:What's sad is that you probably don't have an idea of how rampant that kind of homophobia is IN the LGBT community against bisexual women. I've met so many lesbians who swear up and down that us bisexuals are doing it just to show off, or that it's just a phase, or we're just experimenting, usually because they got burned badly by some girl who WAS doing one or all of those things. As a lesbian (I guess I might consider myself veeeery slightly bisexual, as I have felt certain instances of attraction towards men, though not so much sexually as romantically, if that makes any sense) who comes from an extremely homophobic family, I deal with every cliche stereotypical view about LGBT people in the book. Just the other day, we were discussing my cousins wife who is bisexual. By their logic, because she is bi she MUST be cheating on him. This was just a fact in their eyes. Bisexuals are just immoral people who will have sex with anything that moves, etc etc. I would have hoped the LGBT community wouldn't carry the same kind of stereotypes, but then again, stereotypes exist in every community. It seems like a step backwards, though, which is unfortunate. I don't know how I would ever come out to my family with the kind of disdain they have for lgbt people, my aunt honestly feels like gays should not be given jobs or normal rights or be represented in media. Speaking of - she told me once that because gay marriage was now legal in certain areas, that it was only a matter of time before pedophilia became legal and men would be allowed to have sex with children and all sorts of nonsense. I just want to find a girl to settle down with, god dammit.  I'm no more in favor of immorality than she is.
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Azrael Alexander posted:my aunt honestly feels like gays should not be given jobs or normal rights or be represented in media. To be more precise she's much more in favor of immorality than you are. She thinks human beings should be denied their rights. Pursuit of happiness, free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom from discrimination it sounds like for starters.
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Action_Bastard posted:To be more precise she's much more in favor of immorality than you are. She thinks human beings should be denied their rights. Pursuit of happiness, free speech, freedom to assemble, freedom from discrimination it sounds like for starters. But see the bible says it's wrong so it's ok to deny them their rights!! Even though the bible also says "judge not" and "love thy neighbor" and all that. I guess it's just easier to be a hater.
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Lolitas Alright! posted:What's sad is that you probably don't have an idea of how rampant that kind of homophobia is IN the LGBT community against bisexual women. I've met so many lesbians who swear up and down that us bisexuals are doing it just to show off, or that it's just a phase, or we're just experimenting, usually because they got burned badly by some girl who WAS doing one or all of those things. What's up, bisexual female buddy who can't get taken seriously by lesbians.  I was in a girl bar in East Atlanta chatting up a lovely woman who, when the mention of a male ex came up in conversation, completely 180'ed and ignored me from that point out.
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The moral of the story, children? For all their posturing upon their high horse, gay and lesbian people can be every bit as stuck-up and assholish as the bastards and cunts that led you to jump fence in the first place. Unless you were already on that side of the fence, in which case you had to put up with them for even longer then those who were driven to it.
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After my mom and Mike broke up I found out in pretty gross detail that no, he didn't know about oral sex unless it was on him and pretty much everything was missionary. For a guy who started to joke about me needing to walk around the house naked rather than in a robe, it was pretty pretty WTC. I've never had problems with bisexual ladies, unless we count the myriad craigslist ads where the lady posts that she needs a woman's touch and her husband/boyfriend is super understanding. That is well and fine, but I don't plan to date your husband/boyfriend and I don't care if he is understanding: you seeking an open fuckbuddy is not on par with me seeking a girlfriend. I never did explain much more to Mike. I think his head would have exploded. On similar lines, at work recently a male coworker of mine was bemoaning that his daughter was now 16 and she wanted to go out at night and go to teenage clubs and boo loving hoo. I asked him if he'd be so upset if his kid was a boy, and he looked at me, shocked. gently caress no, Cowslips, if I had had a son, I'd have given him the Costco sized box of Trojans at 13 and told him to get busy! Last lesbian thing, but my first girlfriend was visiting me and my mom, and she noticed my mom's new turquoise ring that she was super happy with. Girlfriend then proceeded to call the ring garbage and trash and in that smiling nice mocking way ridiculed every piece of jewelry she was wearing as a cheap tourist thing rather than the real gems they sell in high end areas of town. I was at such a loss for words, and my mom was pretty shocked at the utter bluntness of "wow, that ring looks like poo poo." Who the gently caress says that when you're a guest in someone's house?
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Cowslips Warren posted:And Mike asks, out of the blue, how two women have sex. While I stood there trying to think how to answer that, he asked, "How can it feel good, without a penis?" My mind pretty much stopped there and he repeated the question a few times before I said I had to go to class and left. I'm still amazed he couldn't at least conceive of finger-banging or sex toys. Those should have at least been on the menu of anyone who's woken up at 4:00 AM and been unable to get back to sleep since being 16 years old or so. Nevermind the quiet breaks through the day, and never mind the other possibilities. And I agree with Haerc's suggestion you should ask him about gay male sex being twice as pleasurable as hetero sex.
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Ogive posted:I'm still amazed he couldn't at least conceive of finger-banging or sex toys. Those should have at least been on the menu of anyone who's woken up at 4:00 AM and been unable to get back to sleep since being 16 years old or so. Nevermind the quiet breaks through the day, and never mind the other possibilities. Mike sounds like a guy who has no idea that the clitoris exists, let alone what it's for. My WHAT THE CHRIST moment happened when I was in my twenties. My cousin, who is some years older, had always wanted to have a family, but she was divorced when she was young and then for various reasons never found the right man/whatever. Long story short, wanted a baby forever but never had one. She married again in her late 30s. One day I got a call from her out of the blue, sounding very upset. It turns out that she had gone into early menopause and could not have her own children, and she wanted to know if I would be an egg donor. She and her husband offered to pay me to fly out to where they were (they live in another province). At the time I was in grad school and didn't want kids (still don't). After I regained the power of speech I politely declined, and I still feel kind of bad about it, even though I know donating eggs is not a walk in the park. I also would have felt very strange knowing I had a biological child somewhere being raised by someone else, albeit a family member I was always pretty close to. Just imagining the shitstorm it would have caused in our family, holy cow. 
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