things that annoy me:
gay people (specifically the ones who are becoming trans because it's trendy)
straight people (the ones who are so stereotypically straight)
children
old people
people who wear pajama pants in public
the mall
hippies
vampyres
the inability to find other hateful people in olympia
waiting a half hour to get a sammich and then finding out they don't have enough bread
coughing shit up
...
but you know what? there's a new elara set up today, and that comes pretty damn close to making up for all these things.
i'm going to elaborate on the gay people thing a bit. yesterday my friends and i went to homo club. we had very few reasons left to keep going, the most prominent of which was the adorable dyke coordinator. smart, funny and cute as hell, she was pretty much all the reason we needed. ...until she became he. our wonderful hannah is now hunter. and the other cute coordinator went from being ingrid to jaden.
then we recieved the new issue of the homo zine. which is all about trans stuff and being genderqueer and whatnot. in the advice column, someone wrote in saying that they are trans, and the advice columnist responded "changing your name and pronouns is in this season." i really wanted it to be a joke. but i knew it wasn't.
the whole experience was disillusioning to say the least.
it's like the whole bisexual trend. it trivializes the experience of REAL trans people, those who were born feeling that their sex and gender do not coincide, rather than those who get tired of their gender, or want to be trendy and change it. for fun.
so now we search futilely for other hateful queers. but they don't go to homo club because they're too hateful. and don't want to associate with the homo club creepies and genderqueers.
jesus! this doesn't happen at real colleges, does it?
gay people (specifically the ones who are becoming trans because it's trendy)
straight people (the ones who are so stereotypically straight)
children
old people
people who wear pajama pants in public
the mall
hippies
vampyres
the inability to find other hateful people in olympia
waiting a half hour to get a sammich and then finding out they don't have enough bread
coughing shit up
...
but you know what? there's a new elara set up today, and that comes pretty damn close to making up for all these things.
i'm going to elaborate on the gay people thing a bit. yesterday my friends and i went to homo club. we had very few reasons left to keep going, the most prominent of which was the adorable dyke coordinator. smart, funny and cute as hell, she was pretty much all the reason we needed. ...until she became he. our wonderful hannah is now hunter. and the other cute coordinator went from being ingrid to jaden.
then we recieved the new issue of the homo zine. which is all about trans stuff and being genderqueer and whatnot. in the advice column, someone wrote in saying that they are trans, and the advice columnist responded "changing your name and pronouns is in this season." i really wanted it to be a joke. but i knew it wasn't.
the whole experience was disillusioning to say the least.
it's like the whole bisexual trend. it trivializes the experience of REAL trans people, those who were born feeling that their sex and gender do not coincide, rather than those who get tired of their gender, or want to be trendy and change it. for fun.
so now we search futilely for other hateful queers. but they don't go to homo club because they're too hateful. and don't want to associate with the homo club creepies and genderqueers.
jesus! this doesn't happen at real colleges, does it?
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-making me crazy
Dave
i don't understand it. i really don't. i'm queer, and you get so much shit from straight people and so much shit from gay people and it makes me want to just scream. grr.
gender-queer is the new fucking trend? that is the lamest thing i've ever heard. i have friend who are trans and it's not a fucking seasonal thing.
glad to hear you had a good trip :-) you should come here, i guareentee a good trip, little bit more expensive though :-)