Today is Bi/Pan Invisibility Day.

Well, certainly the second part is a choice, but even so, it is a biological drive that is quite powerful. Unless one has a low sex drive, or is asexual, the need for sex is psychologically powerful.

 

Nosy families who make it their business. I've had members of my family try to scour the internet looking for things I've posted, because for years they believed I was gay and they wanted proof by which to indict me. Family can be awful.

 

I'd drop people like that like a bad habit. Fuck em

Surely family members don't know about Wordforge though, at least I hope not

 

Google puts everything within easy reach, even for simpletons who normally wouldn't know how. If you have their email address, or a username, you can find just about anyone anywhere, and Google will even help you connect the dots, because you might use a different handle or email address, but Google has algorithms like Facebook, where it finds data that may be remotely similar, and it puts them together. I remember having two wholly separate accounts on Facebook, not connected by friends or by email address, and I would find my alternate account listed under "you may also know." I knew if I was getting it, family was getting it, and there was one or two family members that asked me if I knew that person.

Privacy is dying fast.

 

FTFY.

 

Not sure what this is all about but as long as you aren’t bothering me or anyone else with it and it involves consenting adults I don’t care in the slightest.

That goes for sexual orientation, gender identification, religion, whatever.

By the same token I expect society and other individuals to not judge me for lifestyle choices that don’t affect anyone else.

 

Oh, they'll always be free to judge you. What they shouldn't be free to do is persecute you or make going about your life difficult.

 

Indeed. I've been silently judging all of you.

 

True. People can think what they want.

But if they get in my face about it or try to convert me over then we might have a problem!

 

In my case, I hope it was during the swimsuit competition.

 

DEAR GOD, MY EYES!!!

 

Just a thought...

There seems to be some tension there: Anc is a bit preoccupied with what society views as "straight up" and "respectable." There's a concern about how he will be viewed by society if his real self is made known. I can't help but wonder if his political bent is some kind of reaction or compensation for this: "I'm worried about what society thinks of me, so I'll be MR. SOCIETY!"

Hmmm.

 

Turn away from the mirror, sailor.

 

When you read something I write that seems like a double entendre, you can be reasonably sure it's intentional.

 

Yes, I know. I was just riffing on it.

 

So, does that mean you'll use she/her pronouns for Nova and Tererun instead of do your "You can't make me " routine, or.....

 

No, I won't say black-is-white or up-is-down for anyone. Nova is still male, and Tererun is still...whatever Tererun is. It doesn't mean I intend anyone ill will. It just means that politics does not transcend reality for me.

 

Don't worry, you didn't wax your bikini line for nothing.

 

There's reasons for that which involve a lot of factors, such as people who have long since kicked the bucket or are no longer posters and whole lot of that rests on the staff we used to have a long time ago.

That said, I no longer try to bring in new people to this place.

 

It could be, but 999,999 out of 1 million, they usually double down on church type stuff and beating people over the head with the Bible like Shep used to do, not get involved with liberal politics.

I know biphobia exists even in liberal places like Seattle, but the only problem would be if he's found a guy and his wife isn't down for a poly relationship

 

I completely understand why he would want to talk about it, while also being hesitant. When there's a part of ourselves we want to share with the people we care about, but we also know the wolves will see it just as surely as our friends, and that there is no real repercussions to being an utter fuckstick on the internet, it makes one pause. It's a shame. Over at my board, we're all about gay acceptance, and everything, but even I realize most people wouldn't talk about it because things get out, people find out, even if you're on a tiny board in the middle of the internet's version of nowhere.

I mean, I'm pansexual, and freely say as such here. There are places I would never talk about it, though. There's nothing wrong with it, it's no moral crime any more than being born black, or having green eyes is a moral crime, it's just where some people have a sexuality that says "I like men," "I like women," or "I like both," my sexuality was just kind of, well...



(P.S. Alan Rickman was very hot)

 

We will all be judged someday by the big man in the sky.

 

OMG chocolate rain!

 

Which conflicting part of reality keeps you from acknowledging the reality that Nova thinks of herself as female by referring to her as female?

 

Has someone told @Tex yet?

 

Nova's free to belief whatever he wants, and I'm content to let Nova go through life acting according to his beliefs.

But, tolerant as I am of those beliefs, I do not share them and will not endorse them.

 

Denial is a real thing.

Nova is a woman, regardless of what you think, and we don't have to accept your inability to see that. We just have to make certain people who feel the same way don't go out and try to punish them for not conforming to a limited worldview.

 

So...is @Ancalagon dead? @Ancalagon are you dead? If so, PM me.

 

You previously claimed this was about reality. Are you now using the word 'belief' to describe something you believe irrationally, as in by a religious or similar faith? If not, why can't you name which part of reality contradicts Nova's view?

 

I do not mean anything irrational (and certainly not religious) when I refer to my beliefs here. It's shorthand for "what I think."

Physiology. Genetics.