I don't get people who feel the need to make fun of others (non-asexual others) for being virgins by choice, especially when they get really personal and vicious about it with literally no provocation other than someone saying that they're a virgin by choice for whatever reason, or that they're happy they waited for their wedding night or whatever ( Read more... )

   Dear R and the rest of my Brooklyn friends: I'm starting to wonder if I could ever make a life among you after all. Because while I love you all and love visiting you, I always end up feeling stressed and compressed and eager to go home, because what I am and how I live are completely at odds with how all the rest of you women out there are. ( Read more... )

   Last fall I went to Youmacon cosplaying as female!America from Hetalia, who wears a rather revealing outfit (shorts and boots on bottom with a bikini top under an unbuttoned, crop-tied shirt.) On one of the days a few of my guy friends came to the con for the game tournament. They came to say hi to me as I was working in the game room, but they ( Read more... )

   That the way I've been avoiding serious topics of thought/conversation that aren't immediately relevant to me personally (and some that are) and the way I jump at any chance for fun with my friends or alone is in huge part due to the fact that I had an emotionally/verbally abusive adolescence that was very solitary and repressed, so now that I'm ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who does not love Studio Ghibli. Granted I haven't seen that many of their flicks...I've seen Spirited Away, which I thought was too long and rambling; I've seen part of Castle In The Sky, which, while I actually did find the premise interesting, was also too rambling (I didn't see the whole thing ( Read more... )

   I was thinking recently about gender roles and it occurred to me that I and my siblings had a very unusual upbringing. Our family is and always has been quite conservative and religious, but my sister, my brothers and I were most definitely not raised to fit into the traditional gender roles; in fact, we were raised up in what I would consider ( Read more... )