I think I may have actually met some of these people! My mother claims to be one but this is obviously false; my aunts, however, both appear to be this sort of person. It's strange. How can they look at, for instance, Karen Gillan and not want to hug her and kiss her and take her home and make her talk to them Scottishly?
My mother and most of my female friends are apparently like this as well. I understand why they might be attracted to boys, I just can't understand why they're not attracted to girls as well.
Exactly. It's not the attracted-to-boys part that confuses me. I'm not attracted to them but I understand how one might be. They do have some things to recommend themselves, depending on the boy. But not being attracted to girls is just confusing and scares me a little. To break it down simply: Why?
If I had put a smiley at the end of my comment, perhaps you would have realised that I wasn't being entirely serious either. (I am trying to wean myself off them. I used to never use them at all, and then I kept getting taken seriously by mistake so I started using them all the time, but now I've decided I use them too much so I'm trying to go back to not using them again...)
(Though the idea of going up to, say, Declan's hilariously anti-vaginas drag queen boyfriend and asking him why he's not attracted to girls does amuse me...)
I've actually come to use smilies MORE often, though still sparingly, to indicate tone. It...unfortunately really is the only way in standard English online writing.
(Though the idea of going up to, say, Declan's hilariously anti-vaginas drag queen boyfriend and asking him why he's not attracted to girls does amuse me...)
I tried something similar once and got a stream of incredibly vitriolic misogyny. Remember, ladies: NOT ALL GAY GUYS ARE YOUR FRIENDS. I'm assuming Declan's boyfriend isn't like that? He's just the kind of person for whom vaginas are squicky? I tend to try to give people the benefits of doubts...
I have a couple of friends who basically use them as punctuation. I try not to use them that much.
Matt finds vaginas squicky, but as far as I know, he doesn't actually hate girls. He does very much like dressing up as one, I know that. (I have met his girl persona all of once. She was slightly tipsy, asked me to feel her fake breasts and tell her what I thought, and was walking around in four inch heels, which concerned me quite a bit due to aforementioned tipsiness. It was an...interesting night.)
...You know I have a girl persona, right? Her name is Madeline and she's a rather in-your-face lesbian who's addicted to a shitty brand of tea and likes mountain climbing.
She lives in my head and comes out on the Internet and for 'imaginative self-portraits' and 'counterfactual autobiographies'. She has a serious disdain for the LGBT 'scene' (similar to Maya's disdain, actually).
I have learned so much about Townsville's LGBT scene ever since Declan and Matt started dating. From what I gather, everyone is in some sort of blood feud with everyone else, drag queening = Srs Bizness, you can't have a drag queen name that isn't some sort of double entendre/innuendo, competing nightclubs = Srs Bizness and everyone takes themselves waaaaay too seriously.
This is why Maya hates it, and mainly hangs out with the legal activist crowd as opposed to the 'scene'. My drag queen name is just what my mother says my name would have been had I been born a girl.
Matt's is Janet Upyah (*rimshot*), but it's changed a few times. It was Difa when I first met him. But then, that's not as bad as his friend, Anita Service.
I love that this is potentially becoming a Thing with people who are not me. :D
(Also the drawing was so cute, I maybe said "awww!" in real life.)
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Yes, apparently there are people who don't find girls attractive. Weird, huh?
Obviously. :P
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(Though the idea of going up to, say, Declan's hilariously anti-vaginas drag queen boyfriend and asking him why he's not attracted to girls does amuse me...)
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(Though the idea of going up to, say, Declan's hilariously anti-vaginas drag queen boyfriend and asking him why he's not attracted to girls does amuse me...)
I tried something similar once and got a stream of incredibly vitriolic misogyny. Remember, ladies: NOT ALL GAY GUYS ARE YOUR FRIENDS.
I'm assuming Declan's boyfriend isn't like that? He's just the kind of person for whom vaginas are squicky? I tend to try to give people the benefits of doubts...
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Matt finds vaginas squicky, but as far as I know, he doesn't actually hate girls. He does very much like dressing up as one, I know that. (I have met his girl persona all of once. She was slightly tipsy, asked me to feel her fake breasts and tell her what I thought, and was walking around in four inch heels, which concerned me quite a bit due to aforementioned tipsiness. It was an...interesting night.)
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My drag queen name is just what my mother says my name would have been had I been born a girl.
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