My only answer to Hatshepsut is Borte, honestly. When Temujin died and his sons couldn't get their shit together, she kept it all running. And as much as a lot of the West is heavily influenced by Greco-Roman and Egyptian traditions, the Khanate had a HUGE impact on the Eastern hemisphere and the way that women…

YES! I saw her mentioned in a few other comments and did a little fist pump (which confused my coworkers but they're used to that). So many cultures were comfortably matriarchal or at least more open to female rulers until monotheism and especially modern Christianity came along. It's one of the few places in…

Oh wait, what about all of the "anonymous" women who worked at Bletchley Park to decode all the German's communications? And the countless Rosie the Riveter types who kept the home front safe and built all the planes, tanks, and Jeeps that the US relied on?

I don't know how to express how sad you've made me right now.

Why is Shannon not the most annoying? Seriously. Hands down. I got to the point where I fast forwarded through any scene she was in.

Pansexual is like bisexual but it also encompasses people who are genderfluid/queer, androgyne, etc. People who don't fall on either end of the gender spectrum (since bisexuality generally means men and women, pan means all of that and everybody else). Sapiosexual is a bit of a Tumblr buzz word more than anything…

The young British woman also starred in an episode of Call the Midwife in February, her name is Sarah Gordy. She's spoken very eloquently and at length about how important it was for her to make that episode, and she seems like an all around lovely young woman. I'm happy to see her in this.

For me, if someone tells me what they identify as (straight, gay, bi, pan, trans, cis, genderfluid, whatever) that's what they are. Me saying otherwise means I'm taking away their right of self identification and that's really deeply fucked up. It's exclusionary and shitty and especially for folks who are…

Sexual orientation is defined by sexual attraction, sexual behavior, OR romantic attraction towards someone. You're erasing asexual people who are still hetero-, homo-, or bi-romantic by stating that sexual orientation is defined by acts alone.

Sorry, I honestly wasn't trying to be disrespectful, and I'm a bit lost on what topic you're trying to come back around to?

I like baby gay, it never fails to make me smile and I feel like it's a pretty good descriptor when used properly. ;)

I can tell this isn't going to be a productive conversation, so I'll leave it here.

No worries. NuKinja is foiling us all.

I feel like you're missing my point: saying "I'm making out with girls to get attention because I'm bisexual" is the problem. Not "I'm making out with girls to get attention."

No worries...it's gonna be a long week or two while we all figure out how to talk to each other again. :)

I'm not sure why so many people seem to be under the impression I'm attempting to dictate anything. I was expressing an emotional reaction to a pretty specific set of circumstances, and then the critical thinking and analysis that followed. Not once did I say that what they did wasn't acceptable, but rather that it…

As I said in other comments, BDSM and exhibitionism and bisexuality are not mutually exclusive or in any way causational, but they do coexist happily in some individuals. There's nothing wrong with being an exhibitionist or being into BDSM, but don't say that they're because you're bisexual.

I think we're getting into a semantics debate here and at the root my argument is about the difference between exhibitionism and bisexuality. Bisexuals make out with people because they are attracted to those people. Exhibitionists make out with people because they like the attention it gets. You can be bisexual…

I would disagree only a little bit (having attended cons like the ones you're describing) because then it becomes performative for other women, which is still problematic. Female fetishization of homosexual male relationships is a really valid concern, and not one that gets brought up in fandom regularly. It's the…

When someone says "I make out with my friend for attention" (literally her words) that is not being out and proud. That's manipulating other people with your sexuality.