LGBTitp - Part Six

[Pinnacle]

How old do you think I am?
I think I wrote it... in the 2000s... but before 2003. Maybe exactly 2000.

...You're younger than me?

I always pictured you a bit older than that. Maybe not 30 years, but a bit.

[Yora]

10 years ago in school. Sounds pretty much like mid- to late 20s to me. At least it does work that way in my case.

[Quincunx]

How old do you think I am?

Old enough to know better, despite knowing better myself. Some people are just born middle-aged. (Dear end of fertility and beginning of equality, or at least equality with men whose juices have run dry: Hurry the boop up. Sincerely: ((insert handwritten signature here)), Me.)

[Lycan 01]

Hey ya'll, I got something to say...


My girlfriend has asked me to tell you all thanks for her, and to give ya'll a big thumbs up. She's been on vacation, and when we finally had a chance to talk, I told her what all ya'll had said about her situation, and that she was basically normal and had nothing to be worried or embarrassed about. Well, it helped. She feels a lot better now. And she just wanted me to pass her thanks along.

And I'm also passing along my own thanks, since you all were nice enough to answer my questions on the matter. Even if it seemed like a small problem, ya'll really helped, and I'd just like to say thanks for that.

[Xzeno]

My girlfriend has asked me to tell you all thanks for her, and to give ya'll a big thumbs up. :

Aw, your welcome, Lycan's girlfriend. It was no problem, really; I'm always happy to help. Not that I did .

[golentan]

Old enough to know better, despite knowing better myself. Some people are just born middle-aged. (Dear end of fertility and beginning of equality, or at least equality with men whose juices have run dry: Hurry the boop up. Sincerely: ((insert handwritten signature here)), Me.)

Wait, what? How is menopause related to gender equality? Or do I not want to think about that too hard?

[Coidzor]

Wait, what? How is menopause related to gender equality? Or do I not want to think about that too hard?

It's best not to think about anyone looking forward to menopause at all in the first place.

Smile and nod and think about balloons.

[Serpentine]

I believe I actually have my whole birthdate in my profile... I just turned 24, anyway. Which is quite old enough, thank you. Sheesh...

[golentan]

It's best not to think about anyone looking forward to menopause at all in the first place.

Smile and nod and think about balloons.

Menopause isn't a terrible thing. I just fail to see how it's related to gender equality.

[Xzeno]

Menopause isn't a terrible thing. I just fail to see how it's related to gender equality.

Um, because menopausal women can't give birth, I guess. And, uh, men can't give birth, so... equality? Yeah, thinking about balloons is the ticket here.

[DabblerWizard]

I just visited the local gay bar, with a friend, and I was very pleasantly surprised by the atmosphere, not to mention all the cute guys.

I really should go again, and actually talk to a guy.

[golentan]

DabblerWizard: Yes you should. Maybe even ask for a dance.

I need to find a good local hangout. Not necessarily a gay bar, just someplace I can go every night and talk to people.

[Coidzor]

Menopause isn't a terrible thing. I just fail to see how it's related to gender equality.

It isn't? I thought it was phenomenally painful and drove women to crabbiness and violence.

Sort of like a period that lasts for several months until the woman is no longer fertile at all.

Am I acting off of faulty information? I had really thought menopausal women were incredibly unhappy and much more unpleasant than they would be either before or after the conclusion of the menopausal process.

[golentan]

It isn't? I thought it was phenomenally painful and drove women to crabbiness and violence.

Sort of like a period that lasts for several months until the woman is no longer fertile at all.

Am I acting off of faulty information? I had really thought menopausal women were incredibly unhappy and much more unpleasant than they would be either before or after the conclusion of the menopausal process.

It can be bad, but it varies widely. I would say that the nightmare scenarios are the ones you hear about, leading to sample bias. Same with PMS. You generally only hear about PMS from the people who get it something fierce. Which makes up less than 1 in 20 women.

[Quincunx]

Didn't I cover this. . .Oh. Feminism threads. Not much overlapping readership. Right. Sorry. Stripping away as much artifice and division as possible from female and male--discard the secondary effects of the hormones we all produce, the society, the view as seen from the other side of the gender divide, the view from people trying to cross the gender divide*, the mind-forged manacles etc.--still leaves the reproductive functions. So long as you have yours, you're chained to that gender. The female chains are of limited duration. A woman on the far side of menopause is still woman-in-the-past, but currently free of any immutable gender distinction; she's simply human. (By the same analogy, does a man ever return to the equilibrium of 'simply human'? As I understand it, y'all wouldn't*, and that's a cause for unhappiness.) I know the situation is only slightly less far in the future than death itself, from the generally young vantage point here, but I do enjoy thinking about the inevitable. Now returning you to the scheduled GBT discussion, assuming that only the Ls haven't already changed the channel.

*statement subject to being ignored, if you're discarding views from people on the outside looking in

[Pinnacle]

I believe I actually have my whole birthdate in my profile... I just turned 24, anyway. Which is quite old enough, thank you. Sheesh...

Well then, Happy Belated Birthday.

I also can't do math, apparently. We're the same age.

[The Anarresti]

Hey ya'll, I got something to say...


My girlfriend has asked me to tell you all thanks for her, and to give ya'll a big thumbs up. She's been on vacation, and when we finally had a chance to talk, I told her what all ya'll had said about her situation, and that she was basically normal and had nothing to be worried or embarrassed about. Well, it helped. She feels a lot better now. And she just wanted me to pass her thanks along.

And I'm also passing along my own thanks, since you all were nice enough to answer my questions on the matter. Even if it seemed like a small problem, ya'll really helped, and I'd just like to say thanks for that.

You're welcome! Glad we could help! Especially because your girlfriend's situation helped me with my own.

[DabblerWizard]

DabblerWizard: Yes you should. Maybe even ask for a dance.

I need to find a good local hangout. Not necessarily a gay bar, just someplace I can go every night and talk to people.

I don't find clubs/bars to be very appealing places in general, considering the fact that I actually like talking to a guy...

However, this bar that I went to, was nice, it had a whole outdoor section which was much quieter than the inside, and seemed innocuous enough.

On the other hand, it is in the middle of nowhere, which is sketchy, and makes me kind of sad.

[Delusion]

Never liked going to bars myself. Just too noisy, costly and most alcohol drinks taste bad anyway.

[Lyesmith]

Never liked going to bars myself. Just too noisy, costly and most alcohol drinks taste bad anyway.

It depends what you like the taste of. For a beginner, alcopops are a sound start. If you like fruity things, a lot of places do fruit beers or ciders. I can reccomend Kopparberg ciders, they're fantastic to a tee.

My personal favourite is Gaymers, having been given a box as a joke present, but it's good stuff.

[Lix Lorn]

I don't even like alcopops. XD

[Lorolar]

Drink WKD then, its essentialy liquid sugar with a hint of alchohol. Laughter at such an odd drink for a guy asside they just taste so nice.

mmm sugar...

[Lix Lorn]

I can always taste the alcohol. Always.

[Lyesmith]

I can always taste the alcohol. Always.

Kopparberg.

I've got a freind like that, and seriously. She didn't even know it was alcoholic until she'd finished a bottle and thought it the best thing ever.

Anyway, what's so bad about our old freind alcohol?

[Lix Lorn]

Maybe. XD

It tastes icky.

[Nameless]

Kopparberg.

OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM <333333333

And I can taste the alchohol just fine in it.

[Lyesmith]

OMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOMNOM <333333333

And I can taste the alchohol just fine in it.

Oh, so can I. But not as much as, say, Gaymers or Strongbow.

Also, freind alcohol tastes lovely and makes everything better

[Nameless]

Oh, so can I. But not as much as, say, Gaymers or Strongbow.

Also, freind alcohol tastes lovely and makes everything better

... how dare you even mention Strongbow?

[Lyesmith]

... how dare you even mention Strongbow?

I'm a teenager. Desperate times! Strongbow can last a while. Mainly due to the Dwarf Bread effect, but still...

[Lix Lorn]

I hate the taste of alcohol. If it's there, then I'll taste it ad go eeeuck.