That the Sikhest description of a Sikh I've ever heard. 100% Sikh confirmed.
Thank you to all our Testosterone-Laden men who are a key part of this movement. You are loved and appreciated. Never forget that!!!
On behalf of my late ladypede, we need to fight for them more. In every aspect of society, and on both side of the political aisle, men are being dejected and demoralised, and they are bailing out.
ah yes, "Bring Back Our Girls": when nobody cared about the 10,000 boys captured and killed by Boko Haram even after 222 girls were captured. The only reason it made headlines was because capturing the girls went against Boko Haram's usual M.O. of killing/capturing the boys and freeing the girls.
Yours is a better quality Photoshop, but the potato quality of the old Wheel Of Fortune doesn't help. Yours also isn't 19 letters long. The impressive length in this newer version (and even the low-energy non-attempt to straighten the lines and fix the second blue background) makes it funnier.
This post needs way more than 800 upvotes. I love your content, u/TheImpossible1.
That's a good thing!
The more miners that lean away from Bide, the better. I think we can all agree.
I've really enjoyed this discussion. Great questions, u/babyface, and great answers, u/RedRaven.
My limited exposure to gay culture was with a friend who was considering the priesthood and went to a seminary college. That place was filled with gays and a lot of them obviously had serious emotional issues. I'm pretty sure they were all sexually abused at some point based on the conversations we had. Getting hit on constantly was almost overwhelmingly creepy for me and I don't know if that's what you feel when guys hit on you. I never had the slightest attraction to another dude other than as a bud or on an intellectual level.` That probably means I had an easy life on some level and I'm grateful for that. I can certainly understand an attraction to women.
I don't really get creeped out when guys hit on me because usually they don't know I wouldn't date them, but I can totally see how that would be uncomfortable. A lot of gay men sometimes come on a bit strong with that.
My late ladypede* was a bisexual tomboy, and she and I were Christians who ministered in the LGBTQWERTY world. I still do, and that often results in me getting hit on by gay men even though I'm also not attracted to them. Hell, I look way too good in drag, and I get hit on by everybody (even straight guys and gay gals) on the rare occasion that someone coaxes me into dressing in drag for an event. I can easily empathise with those who are overwhelmed at being hit on by a sexuality you're not attracted to, especially straight people who may not have been very exposed to our often-promiscuous world.
I certainly didn't start out like that. It took years to acclimatise to physically being in that world, and I'm still not completely comfortable in the really sexualised corners. I seem to be in the minority, but gay men have actually been really sweet with me when I let them down gently. Sometimes we'll keep chatting, and other times they'll call me beautiful and move on. Lol. Most of my MtF trans friends say differently, though. I often give them tips on avoiding unwanted attention, but a lot of trans people go to seedy places of their own volition. Other people in this thread have mentioned the role of fetishism in transgenderism, which is more evident with MtF's. There is some of that in FtM's, but projection (of perceived masculine qualities) and transference (of perceived male behaviours) seem to be their two biggest catalysts. Often those perceptions are wildly out of proportion, which explains things like exaggerated drag queen make-up and the lesbian domestic violence rate.
* (someone may call me out elsewhere in this thread, so I'll add that I only call my girl a ladypede because she damn well knew the difference between a woman and a lady, and she taught me that not every woman is a lady. Years after she died, it still makes me smile how much of a giggly girl she was around me, and she lamented when wives didn't reciprocate the chivalrous love of their gentlemanly husbands.)
women never barged into your bathrooms or demanded sex as a right
Are you kidding me?! The following quotes have been publicly published by "professional" female sports journalists:
I almost had that [male locker room access] privilege taken away when one young, particularly handsome player entered the hallway after showering in nothing but his shower shoes. There was an audible gasp, a blush and a muffled giggle, which was quickly replaced by total professionalism as I buried my head in my notebook and hid behind a colleague.
Needless to say, I'd be fine with more towel dropping in NBA locker rooms across the country.
Put me in a locker room, I'm not going to lie, I'll sneak a peek. But a glance to the nether regions is caused by curiosity, nothing more.
But nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see. I turned left into the actual locker space where the players dress, or more accurately, parade around naked, and amid the few dressed players, all I could see was flesh. Raw and uncensored. I took another deep breath and blinked my eyes a few times to be sure they were not deceiving me.
The first time I walked into the locker room to get a pre-game notebook item, the reaction was comical. Jaws dropped. Hands scrambled for towels. One player strolled out of the shower, saw me, and hopped back in with a yelp that would probably be unprintable if translated here.
“Wait, you got to go in the locker room?” my friends gasped when I told them how I spent my summer. And then the conspiratorial smile: “Did you see…?”"
Here is a quote from the head of the [then] NBA Players Association, who happens to be a woman herself:
“But there has been a sense among the players that there are people in the room that are not really there to ask questions. Watching the players, I suppose, is gathering news. But watching them change clothes? What, watching them listen to music? Watch them have their pregame meal? Is that really news?....Most of the time I go to the locker room, the players are there and there are like eight or nine reporters just standing there, just staring at them,” Roberts said. “And I think to myself, ‘OK, so this is media availability?’ If you don’t have a f—-ing question, leave, because it’s an incredible invasion of privacy"
And women then have the audacity to refer to themselves as "ladies" or claim victimhood status when barging to male locker rooms. This has been going on for generations, and a Federal Judge permitted it back in the 1980s. This is just one context, and the "most professional" one at that.
Considering that the second-most common trait in male rapists, almost equal to the lack of a father figure when growing up, is being sexually assaulted by a woman when younger, it is so important for boys' development to have some male spaces, in exactly the same way it is for girls. They (both boys and girls) will have no sense of personal boundaries otherwise.
Spez: further reading about women barging in to male spaces, especially locker rooms (sorry for plebbit, but it is pertinent)
Ugh. My GF passed away almost a year ago. People keep telling me that it's "time to get back out there" whatever that means.
Five years for me, fren. Sometimes I will hear a variant of "get back out there" from someone who might mean well, but they never seem to grasp the magnitude of what they're saying. You only move on where there's something to move onto, but how do you move on from someone you loved so intensely? From someone you invested your lives into? If a mutual break-up is a loss on investment, then losing your love is losing everything: investment, saving, and reputation. Grief changes people. You are never the same.
Then there's the cultural conundrum that if you're going to be the alpha in the relationship, then there is no room for your grief and pain. It is a poisonous, dehumanising lie that doesn't even acknowledge your humanity. Far too many people will treat you by your (subjective) potential value, not by your (objective) inherent worth.
Be wary of people's conditional compassion and subjective sympathy. The tragedy is that hardly anybody will celebrate you for being you and even recognise your emotional needs let alone dignify them. Those needs may be secondary to men, but so many people round them down to nothing. Recognise your "in here" before you go "out there".
That's one of the most beautiful posts I've read. Saved. You're a legend, and she's a keeper.
The fuck is wrong with these cucked men in the US who think the options for their daughters is either raise them to be entitled princesses or try to make them the son they never had?
Ironically, the gender flipped version of this question is the most likely cause: spiteful mothers who vainly try and fill the void of fatherhood (thereby intoxicating his masculinity to raise him to be an obnoxious jerk) or try to make them the daughter they never had.
The fathers you described and the mothers I described are exactly the same.
Entitled princesses and obnoxious jerks have the same root problems.
Unfulfilled sons of fathers and unfulfilled daughters of mothers will grow up having the same crises of identity because their cross-gender parent overstepped their bounds, impairing the healthy relationship with their same-gender parent that is so crucial for the child to grow into a well-rounded adult.
Great post, but it's only half of the problem.
THOSE ARE ROOKIE NUMBERS! WE GOTTA PUMP THOSE NUMBERS UP DOWN!
Im sorry as an underemployed white man, seems like Trump could give a shit about me.
I think about guys like you every time someone in the administration, including GEOTUS himself, boasts that 70% of new jobs are going to women as if they're the only demographic worth celebrating.
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It took me a while, but that was very well played. Call them rioters!
Haha, I'm in the Oval Office. How did that happen?
My cheeks already hurt from laughing so much during this speech, AND HE ISN'T EVEN FINISHED!
"I like blue. Still like blue."
That's alright. You're new to the Trump Train, but that was an easy meme to make. You'll be speaking our language in no time!
Presumably it's a convent thing. Monks in mountainous monasteries would tie a cord connecting each other's waists so that they wouldn't be separated. Nuns probably do it too, and if this is the leftists' reasoning, it only adds to the idolatry of RBG.
Why are they chained together?
Presumably it's a convent thing. Monks in mountainous monasteries would tie a cord connecting each other's waists so that they wouldn't be separated. Nuns probably do it too, and if this is the leftists' reasoning, it only adds to the idolatry of RBG.
Under budget and ahead of schedule!
Impressive length!