Something to feel hopeful about: The first-ever Bi Pride parade in West Hollywood last month. Yay visibility, yay community. ššš(photos by Jon Viscott for The Advocate)Ā
Lately Iāve been doing this thing where when men give me shit at my job, I choose to instead speak to their wives/girlfriends/female counterpart. I had a dude today try to yell at me and I ignored him and instead spoke in a very level voice to his wife instead. He literally stomped his feet like a fucking toddler and said āstop ignoring me! Iām talking!ā And his wife said āGeorge, please use a quieter voice. Youāre embarrassing me.ā
You are a genius and Iām using this
Lol I learned it from my mom. She does this all the time and eventually the guy either sulks off somewhere or adjusts his behaviour and THEN sheāll address him. I did this with my friends puppies when I was training them and it works the same tbh
Whenever a married couple calls in escalated, I always address whichever one seems the most rational. 9/10 itās the wife. Usually, the husband gets cut out of the conversation until weāre done.
Memorable quotes:
āSheās explaining it to me now and you were wrong.ā
āHoney, stop talking so the nice lady can help us.ā
āWhy donāt you go have some coffee while Amelia and I figure this out? Hmmmm?ā
āI understand it and I will explain it to you later. Let me get this taken care of.ā
āI understand, sweetie, can you explain it to my husband real quick? [aside] Now, you listen to this lady and donāt interrupt!ā
Calm wives in the face of their overemotional husbands are a customer service lifeline.
Okay, Iām gonna do this. Not because Iām asking for attention or a pity party (IāM JUST A POOR BOY, I NEED NO SYMPATHY.)(Sorry, I had to.) not because Iām asking you to go off or send hate to this person, but because issues like these need to be addressed, and because I legitimately think this person is going around purposefully harassing and disrespecting trans and non-binary people and their identities.
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I think this person believed me to be a trans woman, or something of the sort, and judging by the way they replied to my friend it seems like they were also harassing a trans man that day.
āBut they look like a woman sisā and āfine, die mad about the fact that your friend looks like a woman.ā Were both stated before they made clear they realized who my friend was talking about, saying āohhh is itā¦ā and then proceeding to pull up the picture of me again, stating: āyeah heās a boyā and a string of insults I wonāt even get into, followed by: āThey have secondary Male sex characteristics and donāt pass as anything other than Male. Sorry I donāt make the rules sis.ā
It seems like this personās main goal is to disrespect peopleās gender identities and tell them they only look like their gender assigned at birth (or what they assume is their gender assigned at birth) and then they settled for telling me I canāt look like either if Iām nonbinary. So Iām warning you all, and if any of you have already gotten shit from this dickhead please come to me and let me know. Weāre in this together, spn family or not, Iām here. Always keep fighting.
Say it with me now:
ICANLOOKLIKEWHATEVERTHEFUCKIWANT
Adventures in being a dick to dicks
Warning: itās gonna be a long post. But Iām having fun so, FUCK IT
Buckle the fuckle up, buttercup, cuz thereās more
This is so entertaining if it wasnāt infuriating .-.
M boutta block him soon, just need to find the right closer
Think about what you were saying when they used to talk to you. Think about your choice of words and tone. Think about why they tried to come to you and why they donāt anymore. When you shut them out, belittle them, and blame them for all of their problems, you will lose them. And that will be permanent.
This.
My therapist legit called my mom out on this shit. She keeps calling me a ānon-functioning adultā and my therapist heard her say it and was like āWOAH! Ok you need to stop that immediately. Do you realize youāre belittling her? That youāre labeling her for life? You then judge her for having low self-esteem and drive to do things when you actively oppress her by labeling her like that.ā And I glanced at Mom and him and Mom was like real quiet and was like āokayā. She has yet to say it since. So yeah. Parents donāt even realize this shit. And Iām almost 21⦠This happened less than a month ago. You are talking to tiny humans. Treat them that way! Like a human!!!
Also!!! Not to detract from this point but to add on: are you initiating interactions with them? (Beyond reprimands and etc.) Just like with any other relationships in your life, if one side always has to be the one to ask for attention and start conversations, its inevitable they will assume you just donāt care about them. Why would someone come to you if they think you donāt care about them past controlling them or punishing them?
thereās a goat! why is there a goat!?Ā oh my god! thereās a fucking lama!
PLEASEEE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD UNMUTE THIS HEāS SO PERPLEXED
For anyone who still hasnāt seen the details on this; zoo break out.Ā Those are zoo animals.Ā Which is why theyāre so comfortable around humans and the goat came looking for food.
the way it cuts at the end with that grunt of confusion
wait is the gender neutral titleĀ āMx.ā a fucking pun
im so fucking mad
Somebody explain, Iām stupid
Mx. is pronouncedĀ āmixā and itās a gender neutral title (Iām using it in one of my stories) for nonbinary people, people who do not identify as girl/woman or boy/man.
I get that, but how is it a pun???
Bc nonbinary people (taking into account that nonbinary literally means not female or male) can be a mix of genders, more masculine or feminine, or neither. Sometimes all equally, sometimes fluid. Iām using nonbinary as a summary as everyone who does not identify as a binary/cis gender.