Duolingo tries to emotionally manipulate me. The guilt trips! “I am so disappointed in you, Ham!” [sad owl] What are you, my mother! Begone.

That owl is very aggressive!

I’m glad you have nice memories of her. She was in Harvard when her father was wrongfully incarcerated and her family exiled and she talked openly about her mental health so I think she might have understood your problems. 

Ooh this is my best friend’s story but he gave permission to relay. As a young gay NYU college freshman he discovered nightlife like ya do, and one night he is outside a bar smoking when suddenly he notices John Mayer walking towards him. Being a drunk idiot, my friend points at him as obviously as he can and tells…

I just switched to LA Fitness this year, and I’ve been so amazed by the women in the locker room. There seems to be this multi-generational group (I’d guess mid-20s to 60s), white and POC, that are on the same AM gym schedule, and the times I’ve been there I’ve heard them talking about a) the best non-profits…

This is hilarious!

I had a teacher with a last name starting with V. He always went in reverse alphabetical order.

How sad is it that there’s not one (or two, or five) examples that pop into my head? That’s a crappy feeling.

I used to work in a government subsidy program that paid for child care for needy families. I had an 86 year old client who was caring for her 3 grandchildren ages 5-10 in my caseload. She missed an appointment and I had to initiate a termination of her case. She didn’t get in contact until the day after her case…

I ate all sorts of things while being old enough to know better! This was because I became overweight (not obese, otherwise healthy), as a young teenager. Mom wouldn’t stand for that and cracked down on me. I would sneak, she would give less, I would sneak and binge more. It was a bad cycle.

Thank you for being out about being a lesbian dating a trans woman. I’m a trans lesbian and it gets very disheartening.

Do you demand to view the genitals of everyone you meet before you decide whether you find them attractive?

I love you...like not fancying, crushing on love, just...I really hope my nephews, nieces, step-grandsons and daughters are all like you when they’ve grown. Love that fierce is just beautiful.

I’m what my username says, and am also a poly person dating a trans woman.

Transfolks, I’m so sorry that this is happening to you. You matter. You deserve to live unafraid of others. You deserve to be safe.

{sigh}

This is never not true. It doesn’t even matter what the Facebook post is. It could be some random person’s dinner picture, and there would be a comment saying, “teh sauce on ur spaghetti looks like the blood of Obummer’s aborted fetuses librul murderer”