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wind rattles the blinds

  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    here's the thing though: if you have a baby, refuse to assign a gender, and then the baby is taken away from you and assigned a gender anyway, you have ...

    Oct 21, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    There'd simply be an understanding that sex and gender are separate facets of identity with no inherent overlap and that men and women are but two of an enormous range ...

    Oct 20, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    Kay for one thing: 1-2% of the world's seven billion people is not an insignificant number and I want you to sit and think about this for a moment. Really ...

    Oct 19, 2014
  • Lounge, The Re: What's that one song for writing?

    *cough* ...quite apart from adoring the song, it's bizarrely good writing music.

    Oct 18, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    to an extent you're right, and yes, gender neutral child rearing in the fullest sense of the term is an impossible ideal. even so, there's no reason not to at ...

    Oct 16, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    there is no such thing as a "male" sex and there is no such thing as a "female" sex. My penis says otherwise. your penis, individually, is a male penis ...

    Oct 16, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    ...what?! An opportunity to recap on this topic now that I have a baby? :) It's really important for the parents (and anyone who takes physical care of the baby) ...

    Oct 16, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Raising children gender neutral

    personally i'm of the opinion that assigning gender at birth is a patently ridiculous thing to do anyway , because the process of gender assignment literally boils down to 1. ...

    Oct 15, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Abusive Relationships

    Any relationship characterized primarily by fear, anxiety, and unhappiness on the part of one person is toxic at the very least . If the other person operates through powerplays, manipulation, ...

    Sep 8, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Fanfiction Debate

    Personally the queering of cis straight characters is one of the main draws of fanfiction, because I get so tired of seeing cis straightness everywhere. Like, I don't read or ...

    Sep 4, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Fanfiction Debate

    ...No, literally, fanfiction is literally defined as any term written by fans about the characters or settings of a preexisting piece of fiction. For it actually fan fiction if a ...

    Sep 4, 2014
  • Serious Discussion and Debate Re: Fanfiction Debate

    Originality is the key. Fanfiction is a jumping off point, but everyone needs to take of the training wheels and start riding an actual bike at some point. You can ...

    Sep 3, 2014
  • Lounge, The Re: Post Your Pic Here [9]

    taking selfies with y (former) roomies' bunny. also this is the closest i ever come to smiling in selfies. I DO ACTUALLY SMILE IN REAL LIFE THOUGH. I PROMISE.

    Sep 3, 2014
  • Randomosity Re: Your Personality Type!

    That test spat out INTJ, which is unusual; I more typically get ISTJ. And wow , but the description makes INTJs sound totally tactless and incapable of diplomacy which is ...

    Sep 3, 2014
  • Randomosity Re: The singing game

    [That] I Can Do Better Than That . (The Last 5 Years) What happens if you turn left?

    Sep 3, 2014


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