Jesus freaking Hell.
As all of us lurkers and posters in Gaia's ED subforum know, the poor thing has gone to shit. There's no one intelligent to debate with in the abortion thread, because all of the lifers capable of forming somewhat coherent sentences are hiding in their cesspool of idiocy that they call a guild. The transgendered threads only attract stupid transphobes who have no idea what they're talking about and would rather moan about how "gross" transsexuals are than actually debate. The forum has been brimming with racist fuckwits for goddess knows how long ("OMG why can't we have White History month" "it's all their fault that they're in poverty" "those mexicans r just trying 2 take our jobs and take over our great country").
That "Essence of ED" guild isn't much better. It keeps the illiterates out, but that's where My Conscience and Cougar Draven reside, and they're both chock full of "AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS REVERSE RACISM OMG IM SO OPRESED" and "REPARATION =/= EQUALITY LOL". I was able to catch My Conscience in his own shitty arguments when he replied to one of my posts with "you can just overcome discrimination, it's not that bad" (obviously, being a white straight male gives him all the expertise on this issue); I replied "if it's not so bad, why are you complaining about being "discriminated" against?" He never answered. Hmm. Then there's "BUT GUYS R SO OPRESED BECUZ THEY HAVE TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT". It's not surprising at all that they think this is an exclusively male burden, because there are plenty of women who also have to pay child support, and they're not whining for them.
Those are many of the reasons I just stopped going there. It was bad for my blood pressure.
I looked up Planned Parenthoods in my state, and they're all up north. So I can't volunteer with them, except put flyers around.
BUT. There is now going to be much happiness in my post.
I GOT OVER MY FEAR OF FLYING. There's a website made by a seasoned airplane pilot that goes over all the basics of how the plane works, what happens in emergencies; it gives statistics (you're more likely to die riding a bicycle than you are flying in an airplane). It even got me excited for flying, because now I can fully appreciate the view and such, without worrying with every lurch of turbulence we get.
I'm SO EXCITED for this Picking the President CR. I'm really sad estelendur can't take it. :( The visit is going to be a lot less...organized than I thought. Basically, we land at the airport in Manchester and leave with the campaigners for whichever candidate we picked, and spend the next two days doing whatever they throw at us. We'll be sleeping in people's houses (that have, obviously, been checked out), on the floors of convention centers. Not in hotels. At first I was a little worried, but I got over it. It sounds like so much fun. And I've talked to everyone in the class at least once, so I'm not amongst a bunch of strangers. There are only two or three other rising juniors in the class BUT, there are two rising sophomores, so I won't be the youngest. :)
That "Essence of ED" guild isn't much better. It keeps the illiterates out, but that's where My Conscience and Cougar Draven reside, and they're both chock full of "AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS REVERSE RACISM OMG IM SO OPRESED" and "REPARATION =/= EQUALITY LOL". I was able to catch My Conscience in his own shitty arguments when he replied to one of my posts with "you can just overcome discrimination, it's not that bad" (obviously, being a white straight male gives him all the expertise on this issue); I replied "if it's not so bad, why are you complaining about being "discriminated" against?" He never answered. Hmm. Then there's "BUT GUYS R SO OPRESED BECUZ THEY HAVE TO PAY CHILD SUPPORT". It's not surprising at all that they think this is an exclusively male burden, because there are plenty of women who also have to pay child support, and they're not whining for them.
Those are many of the reasons I just stopped going there. It was bad for my blood pressure.
I looked up Planned Parenthoods in my state, and they're all up north. So I can't volunteer with them, except put flyers around.
BUT. There is now going to be much happiness in my post.
I GOT OVER MY FEAR OF FLYING. There's a website made by a seasoned airplane pilot that goes over all the basics of how the plane works, what happens in emergencies; it gives statistics (you're more likely to die riding a bicycle than you are flying in an airplane). It even got me excited for flying, because now I can fully appreciate the view and such, without worrying with every lurch of turbulence we get.
I'm SO EXCITED for this Picking the President CR. I'm really sad estelendur can't take it. :( The visit is going to be a lot less...organized than I thought. Basically, we land at the airport in Manchester and leave with the campaigners for whichever candidate we picked, and spend the next two days doing whatever they throw at us. We'll be sleeping in people's houses (that have, obviously, been checked out), on the floors of convention centers. Not in hotels. At first I was a little worried, but I got over it. It sounds like so much fun. And I've talked to everyone in the class at least once, so I'm not amongst a bunch of strangers. There are only two or three other rising juniors in the class BUT, there are two rising sophomores, so I won't be the youngest. :)