Plus, if you dip out early, you don't get invited to the after-party where you get to do fun drugs and hula-hoop to eurotrash dance music with your bosses!

I think I have had the opposite problem. Apparently, I don't have enough fear of authority. I'm not openly defiant or anything. And I'm an excellent, super polite, hard-working intern that stays out of the way. I just literally am not intimidated by those in charge of me and sometimes don't offer them the deference…

Yeah, I never know how I'm supposed to be dressing for my internship. It's at a progressive non-profit where this stuff isn't supposed to matter as much, but, you know, we live in the real world here. The other women in my department all dress really well. the level of formality fluctuates, but they're always in…

Sorry I accused you of trolling! I've honestly never encountered that, and I'm very young and very queer, so it seemed like a trollish statement. I do have some straight friends of both genders who made an honest, good faith effort to see if they were into their own genders and realized they weren't. But, none of them…

I legitimately can't tell if you're trolling, but I guarantee no one thinks you're homophobic for being straight. What's going on here is more akin to the KKK trying to rebrand as a "pro-white" group and then people calling them assholes, not people just calling white people assholes just cause they're white.

I'm not really sure what you're talking about. We are looking to move there because of the culture and the queer community. Not that government is a nonissue, but it's not nearly the most important thing to us, as far as where we decide to live.

That's what I hear! And also why me and my partner are currently looking for jobs there.

Where are you getting that 90% stat? Someone in another thread posted this:

You omitted the round trip flight.

deviant*

Yup, was just about to post about this. Seriously gross.

Holy shit, I need to see that.

See, and I'm never going to initiate a handshake with anyone. It has nothing to do with me being a woman. I'm just really, super duper awkward. If someone else initiates, that's fine. It doesn't bother me. But, even then, I have no fucking idea what I'm supposed to be doing with my hands.

Yup. I had a couple cops try to arrest me like that last summer while I was walking home from a bar. I was able to run away, though, thank gawd.

I was referring to you, actually

I spy a troll.

her* :)

Lol. Yes!

I just found out my dad's cancer has spread to his lungs and bones. He'll be lucky to make it a year. No one with his type of cancer has lived past three years after being diagnosed, and his wan't caught early. I've been tailspinning pretty bad, just trying to keep my head above water (ie. not get fired for being a…