Chaild.

OK, so you’re going to give gayness a try, right? It’s never to late to learn a new language!

Garak and Bashir were totally gay for each other on DS9. The actors were disappointed they couldn’t make it explicit. If Gene Roddenberry had lived a little longer, he’d have gotten some explicitly LGBT characters in there, but unfortunately his successors were not as strident as he was.

No characters up front, but there is at least one character on the LGBTQ spectrum in the first TNG episode, Encounter at Farpoint. A male extra is seen wearing a female uniform. I know that’s a very minor conceit, but it’s more than you can say for most shows in 1987.

Never feel like your experience is invalid or incomplete or let anyone make you feel that way. Someone once told me that none of us ever perform victimhood perfectly enough for other people - your experience is yours and yours alone and you are the only one who can define it. Take care of yourself, love.

I imagine there are more than a few guys who, seeing this, are getting a little worried about the MRA/PUA practices they’re using.

You have a source for this bold assertion that whether a person is homosexual or heterosexual is determined largely by culture? Because even in cultures that are accepting of homosexuality, heterosexuality is by and large the norm and the overwhelming majority of children, including gay children, will grow up seeing…

I’m an American living in England, and in the last few years we’ve had two high profile cases involving male celebrities who were rapists and child sexual abusers. First was media personality Jimmy Saville, who died a few years ago at the age of 84, before his crimes came fully to light. Hundreds of accusers of both…

I think it is important to remember that everyone processes things differently and on their own timeline. As an example, after my father’s traumatic death, I really never had time to mourn it. Five years later I got married and horrible nightmares started. A kind aunt made the connection and suggested I see a…

I prefer accusers, actually, as not everyone wants to be labelled a ‘victim’.

I don’t think you’re crazy or that anything is wrong with you. I think everyone deals with things differently. I have a similar situation. I was raped when I was 6 by an older cousin and I still see him from time to time at family gatherings. I don’t hate him. He’s a very broken person. I can’t excuse what he did to…

“get that tourist visa”

No. Nothing about your reaction to your experience is crazy. Everyone’s different.

Most anti-gay laws in Africa were written by either King Henry VIII, the colonial British, or modern American NGOs. Homophobia is the western influence.

I like how African leaders often accuse calls for LGBT tolerance as “Western influence” interfering in African affairs, while simultaneously believing homosexuality a sin because of their deeply held Catholic values.

It’s different for everyone. If anyone ever tells you someone sexually assaulted them, there are three things you can say:

So basically, he victimized enough women to almost provide a decent sample size to do a proper study on the effects of rape.

Haha! Yes.

Nerd self-outing: The Federation is a communist utopia, so if we’re assigning them to our current spectrum in the US they’re all way to the left even of FDR. The Republicans are clearly Ferengi, from their extreme capitalism to their views on women.