No apologies necessary.

You must not be Canadian.

You aren’t listening. You have no idea what you are talking about. People who study trauma and trauma responses disagree with you. People who have had it happen to them disagree with you. You are not putting yourself in her position, you’re making an incredibly uninformed guess about what you would do in a situation…

The issue is that calling bisexuality “so binary” is a slur against bisexuals. Bisexuals are attracted to more than one gender. That’s the full definition. Non-bisexuals keep trying to redefine a group they are not part of as trans-exclusionary and it sucks. I live in a major metro area and everyone I know that…

I did and then I went to San Antonio State but decided that school wasn’t for me. Ended up in a trailer and then jail. My girlfriend left and coach moved to Philadelphia. But now I own a big piece of land... where I hunt the most dangerous game of all.

As you said yourself, I use the terms fairly interchangeably and only feel any need to get specific when in woke spaces (I work in politics in SF, so I’m in them pretty frequently). Beyond that, again, I feel it simplifies the situation. Explaining the differences between bisexuality, and pansexuality usually means…

A problem that has basically never existed except in the minds of some men who could not believe that THEIR lack of qualifications were to blame. So, no, the SCOTUS doesn’t have to worry about their rulings ‘disempowering’ men in that regard. Gender discrimination is almost exclusively leveraged AGAINST people who…

This is a great explanation - I’d also add that many bisexual people (myself included) continue to use ‘bisexual’ because it’s existed for a longer time, which has some advantages:

This always kinda rubs me the wrong way because I’m bisexual and I’m definitely attracted to men, women, and non-binary people. I have heard from pansexual people who say they ID that way because bisexuality implies two but literally not a single bisexual person I’ve ever met, including myself, subscribes to that…

i’m super extra triple into letting people who have a vested interest in something define for themselves how they would like to be identified, listening to them, then acting accordingly. it costs me literally nothing and is in every way concomitant with being a nice person.

I get that, and I am definitely only reporting what I’ve heard from pan folks (as I am firmly lesbian myself). As I said elsewhere, I think that this is one of those issues where people’s personal perceptions of how a specific word represents them is why they may choose one over the other, rather than trying to…

That’s kind of like thinking that someone who is bipolar only has two moods. I’m bi, and I am just as attracted to trans men and women as I am to cis men and women. Or androgynous or agender people! People can (obviously) feel free to use the word pan if they like, but setting it up as “we are attracted to trans or…

I am just gobsmacked by the fact that delightfully doofy Tom (I’m only on like ep 5-6 of season 1) is the same guy who played an excellently handsome and tortured romantic Mr. Darcy way back in 2005. It’s like, I can believe that Tom is the descendant of the Darcy line, but lost the money and retained the awkwardness,…

Get yourself a kitchen scale and start going by weight instead of volume. At least for finnicky things like bread, pizza dough, rolls, pasta, and so on. It’s so, so SO much easier.

First Blood is such a weird yet accurate snapshot of a culture that seems like Bizarro World now. You young folks may have difficulty believing this, but there really was a time when the large majority of people looked down on the military. 

I come from a jewish family whose recipes are historically pretty terrible. When asked about latke recipe secrets, I tell them “The secret is that my mom burns the latkes and then nobody talks about it.”

The reality, as I found out after hosting hannukah for the first time last year, is that my family’s latke recipe…

3-1-1. You win. I’ll get you next time.

Federal pardons are only for Federal crimes.

“Selling Women’s Bodies ..We’re Not Buying It.”

This is the best write-up of this type of assault I’ve ever read. I’m so frustrated by people telling me (or reading posts) that a woman was obviously fine being touched/kissed because she smiled/joked/downplayed it.