I want to read them all, but I kind of wish they would all be way shorter than mine, because I think I am supposed to be working right now.

Wow, he's such an... advanced crush. He's so sultry! Your kid must be really sophisticated.

God, that whole story sounds really familiar. So many closeted high school crushes...

Dateline: grade eight. My junior high didn't have dances, so I tagged along to a dance or two at another all-girls' school, as a guest of some ballet buddies who were students there. Boys were imaginably a bit difficult to come by, but someone in the group had scored a short, dark, and handsome kid named Noah who was…

Srsly. That would set you back, what, $10?

Yah, I usually order Bulleit bourbon on the rocks and I usually get some odd nod of respect from the barkeep. The entire SF Bay area is a drunk region.

"This is how you drink whiskey..." if you are like 14 and stealing it from your parents' liquor cabinet and have no idea what you're doing.

Bacon-flavored craft brew shows up on a bike, but horribly out of breath.

Maybe turn it into a Lyra Belacqua outfit?

Aw, they were all digging in the wrong place.

Also, half his friends didn't move out of their mom's house in Oak Park until they were 27.

I'm in my early thirties and I know way too many tuned-out engaged people who will transition into being tuned-out married people and then into tuned-out parents. And then there are the hard-focused career people who can't manage their time well enough to interact with other humans offline...

Well, that's the experience for a lot of us. I was in a few different troops b/c I moved around a bit, and they were all just like the illustration, 'til I moved to Los Angeles and they wouldn't even let me in because they were just that exclusive and bitchy.

I was always so jealous of Boy Scout projects. All we did in my stupid troops was make Mobius strips and bicker. I know a few guys who stuck with it all the way to Eagle Scout, and they learned so much cool stuff!

Thanks for the tip!

*sigh* I'd forgotten about that one.

They're abused, raped, and murdered left and right at a rate much, much higher than other disenfranchised groups. They're fired from jobs, mocked on the street, and beaten for no reason by passersby - just for being themselves. They have a right to be upset/complain about these things.

Sure, why not? Men's bathrooms can be really dangerous for transwomen/gay men/etc. in certain places. I am absolutely comfortable with transwomen/anyone who IDs as female/men in drag, even to use the women's restroom along with me. They deserve a safe place to pee & they're no threat to anyone.

I run into a fair amount of people for whom I don't know which pronoun to use, so I just dance around it until someone else successfully uses one, or I hear their name, etc. There are a lot of people in my region (SF bay) who I can't immediately ID as either transmen or just butch women, and I don't want to be a dark…

You say you don't know what it's like to be in the shoes of a trans person - why not watch a documentary about their lives? I think we could all stand to try a bit harder to be empathetic towards them. They are so few and so marginalized that we're not just going to interact with a lot of them in daily life and thus…