PUGGERNAUT posted:

IT IS SO HARD TO BE STRAIGHT, LET ME TELL YOU *can hold hands with partner in public and talk about partner at work without fear*

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Good on you for being proud!

It can be such a struggle growing up straight.

When did you first realize you were straight?

How long did it take you to realize you weren’t gay like everyone else?

What lengths did you go to in order to hide the fact you were straight from everyone else?

How many dates with someone of the same gender did you go on because you didn’t want people talking about how you never went out with another guy/girl?

Were you worried about telling your parents that you liked people of the opposite sex?

Did you ever overhear your dad talking with friends and saying how any kid of his that was straight he’d kick to the curb?

Did you have a straight friend who wound up homeless after he told his parents that he liked girls?

Or was he just beaten at school and called a pussy-lover or boob-chaser or fish-packer?

Did you ever try to Pray Away the Straight? Get sent to Straight Camp to try and fix your feelings for the opposite sex?

Did you ever have to sit and listen to political and religious leaders on TV talking about how you, yes you specifically, for liking the opposite sex, were not only doomed to hell and eternal hellfire, but were also solely responsible for the destruction of America, the modern world, marriage, and any natural disaster that occurred?

Who was your favorite straight character on TV? I mean, they probably weren’t -written- as straight, but who did you watch and feel that, even though they’d been written hooking up with someone of the same gender, they just had this.. air about them, this connection with an opposite-sexed costar that just… Well, they -had- to be straight. And it made you feel less alone to imagine that they were. That they could be like you. And thus, you could be like them.

Did you ever promise God that you’d do anything He’d want you to if He’d just let you fall in love/lust with someone of the same gender, so you didn’t have to be so different?

What’s your most notable scar? The one you got from your dad’s punch when he found out you were straight? The one you got from some random kids who jumped you and your boy/girlfriend as you were sneaking out of a straightbar one night? The ones you gave yourself after you found ‘Straightmo’ spraypainted over your locker and none of the teachers did anything about it?

Are you lucky enough to live somewhere you can be openly straight and walk hand in hand with your boy/girlfriend? Or do you have to pretend that you’re just roommates and put up pictures of someone of the same sex whenever your parents come to visit so they think you’re in a proper relationship?

I know it can be hard answering these questions, but that’s what Straight Pride is all about. Taking all the hurt and abuse and terror of the world, and forging it into a kind of strength. Remember, we’re right there with you. There’s nothing wrong with being straight. In fact, it’s something to be proud of.

And maybe someday, your opposite-sex relationship will be as natural and accepted as same-sex ones.

Probably not in your lifetime, admittedly, but someday…

"Sincerely,

A person who has no loving clue what the 'pride' in 'gay pride' actually means and has no desire to find out because that would take effort."

Like, yeah, if you try to appropriate a movement that a group of disadvantaged people started in the hopes that it would lead to less of them being, you know, murdered, that is kind of a dick move.

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

"We middle class white males are going to be the most persecuted minorities ever! 1488"

Jerry Manderbilt posted:

"We middle class white males are going to be the most persecuted minorities ever! 1488"

the OP is a rich Vietnamese guy I know from high school who went to engineering school at Purdue and landed a job a month after graduating, and last year he posted "Dear black people, please don't riot over the Trayvon verdict" on his facebook

PUGGERNAUT posted:

Centripetal Horse posted:

Last year, I had a friend look me directly in the eye and say, "The white male is by far the least employable group in this country." This is a thing conservatives believe, because this is what Fox, Rush, and the various second-string Rush's are telling them. The Big Lie apparently really does work.

RagnarokAngel posted:

"I saw the gay pride parade on TV today. When are we gonna organize our own parade?!"

Stottie Kyek posted:

There's nothing to stop these people joining in the gay pride parades if they want. Lots of "straight allies" go along with their gay friends, or they just go by themselves to add to the numbers and show their support for LGBT rights.

Gimnbo posted:

Well of all the minorities Asians are hardly underrepresented in engineering. It's not like anyone's going to go "wow, an Asian engineer! This place is progressive."

And at the notion that white males will ever be threatened as a demographic in loving engineering.

LordSaturn posted:

"This business model will totally work, as long as it's a front for drug sales."

Shbobdb posted:

A nice thing about a lot of "dying" industries is that they are cash-heavy. Every community art space I've ever known has a lot of fun stuff going on off the books that, no doubt, helps keep the place afloat. As long as your friends figure out what they want to sell and how to launder money they'll be fine.

Stottie Kyek posted:

There's a few board games shops and cybercafes that are still doing a good trade in Edinburgh (the Games Workshop is even on the Royal Mile where the rent is obscenely high), but I think that's because gaming nerds will spend lots of money on their hobby before anything else, so even a small target market will pay for it.

MizPiz posted:

He is right, though. White men are generally uncomfortable around minorities when they don't act white and tend to be far more entitled than people of other races and genders for the same work.

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“I read several dozen stories a year from miserable, lonely guys who insist that women won’t come near them despite the fact that they are just the nicest guys in the world.

I’m asking what do you offer? Are you smart? Funny? Interesting? Talented? Ambitious? Creative? OK, now what do you do to demonstrate those attributes to the world? Don’t say that you’re a nice guy — that’s the bare minimum.

“Well, I’m not sexist or racist or greedy or shallow or abusive! Not like those other douchebags!”

I’m sorry, I know that this is hard to hear, but if all you can do is list a bunch of faults you don’t have, then back the gently caress away..

Don’t complain about how girls fall for jerks; they fall for those jerks because those jerks have other things they can offer. “But I’m a great listener!” Are you? Because you’re willing to sit quietly in exchange for the chance to be in the proximity of a pretty girl (and spend every second imagining how soft her skin must be)? Well guess what, there’s another guy in her life who also knows how to do that, and he can play the guitar. Saying that you’re a nice guy is like a restaurant whose only selling point is that the food doesn’t make you sick. You’re like a new movie whose title is This Movie Is in English, and its tagline is 'The actors are clearly visible'.”

-David Wong, 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

This looks like fun!



It might be a prank--the city says nobody has applied for a festival permit that day--but the flyers are real. We'll all just have to wait until September to see if anyone shows up.

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

This looks like fun!



It might be a prank--the city says nobody has applied for a festival permit that day--but the flyers are real. We'll all just have to wait until September to see if anyone shows up.

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

This looks like fun!



It might be a prank--the city says nobody has applied for a festival permit that day--but the flyers are real. We'll all just have to wait until September to see if anyone shows up.

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

This looks like fun!



It might be a prank--the city says nobody has applied for a festival permit that day--but the flyers are real. We'll all just have to wait until September to see if anyone shows up.

kazil posted:

So basically there will be no music, huh?

Christmas Present posted:

...okay so maybe he's sort of a centrist democra--

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

This looks like fun!



It might be a prank--the city says nobody has applied for a festival permit that day--but the flyers are real. We'll all just have to wait until September to see if anyone shows up.

Peanut President posted:

Known supporter of the Republican Party: Malcom X.

Peanut President posted:

Yeah but like Malcom X. Malcom loving X being quoted to support a far-right party.


MALCOM X!!!

Excels posted:

emphasis mine.

CrowsNestMutineer posted:

This looks like fun!



It might be a prank--the city says nobody has applied for a festival permit that day--but the flyers are real. We'll all just have to wait until September to see if anyone shows up.