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God bless whoever wrote that comment

imagine being stuck in a room surrounded by everyone you’ve ever had sex with

 #empty chairs at empty tables

imagine being stuck in a room surrounded by everyone you’ve ever thought about having sex with

oh god NO

oh god YES

Imagine your cousin sitting there wondering what he has in common with these people

what

what

what

@jupitersaurus

This is actually hilarious

dear millennials

i’m 45 years old and i can assure you confidently that back in ‘my day’ we did NOT all chat merrily with our seatmates on the bus

people on public transport were as tired and/or obnoxious back then as they are today, and i WISH i could’ve been texting my friends on the way to work in 1990, and i woulda if i coulda

instead we listened to non-rechargable battery powered walkmans and read the newspaper and pretended we didn’t notice the guy next to us leaning in all night train burps and tobacco teeth to ask for a dollar

and unlike you, we didn’t have a way to call the cops if he followed us off the bus

what i’m saying is the mobile phone is a beautiful thing and people who whine about you using it in public are just losers who want attention

godspeed

“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”

-Kenneth John Freeman, 1907, summarizing views found in multiple ancient Greek and Roman writers

When your friend’s going off about “nasty kinks” but they just mentioned like half of the ones you’re into:

Internet fascists saying they’re “revolting against the modern world” while posting pictures of naked underaged anime girls—many such cases. Sad!

Internet communist saying they’re “revolutionaries that will bring down capitalism” while thinking playing video games is a form of (in)direct action, can’t even make eye contact with strangers while ordering shit at a restaurant, and still rely on their parents for income—many such cases. Sad.

I can see why my post offended you

I’ve seen these posts saying, in the words of one of them, “If your job requires you to go against your religious beliefs then perhaps it is time to change careers?” in reference to healthcare workers and government employees who want to deny services to lgbt ppl or others whom they condemn, and i just feel like those posts don’t attempt to understand internal logics at all

like, fundamentalist christian doctors don’t deny trans people medical care because they believe that somebody should provide the care but they just don’t want to be the one to do it. they deny the care because they don’t believe the person should receive care. Their refusal to provide care isn’t just “oops you’re in the wrong field,” as if they were a person with a peanut allergy working in a peanut factory. It is an intentional and calculated part of why they are in the field in the first place — to extend religious control and condemnation to the medical realm.

the pediatrician who spent an entire consultation telling one of my friends at 16 or 17 that he would go to hell if he kept choosing to be gay wasn’t just “not cut out for the job,” he was specifically in that job in order to do that particular thing. Kim Davis didn’t deny the gay couple a marriage license because she couldn’t personally do it, she denied them a marriage license because she thought that people like them should not get marriage licenses and that a clerk should deny them and by god she was going to be that clerk

Saying “if you can’t provide services then why are you in that job!!!” to fundamentalist christians almost always misses the point — that they are in that job specifically so they can selectively deny service

If there’s one thing that the notes on this post has taught me, it’s that people who were not raised fundamentalist do not have any idea what fundamentalist socialization is like. Fundamentalist children have stories drilled into their heads of doctors and lawyers, government workers and social workers, people in virtually every profession who are told by the government or by a supervisor or by a client to do something that is against their faith, and who boldly refuse. People who stand up for Christ despite professional organizations or government bodies telling them not to. We are raised to each want to be that person, and to fetishize the opportunity to make a “hard stand” for our faith.

What I’m talking about here is not some massive conspiracy in which all fundamentalist Christian doctors are in on, playing the long game out of hopes to someday deny care to LGBT people. I’m talking about a deep individual desire that fundamentalist Christianity instills in us to be The One who is brave enough to stand up against the medical/legal/governmental establishment for what we believe in the face of Satanic opposition. And every fundamentalist who denies service to an LGBT person is in their profession in no small part so they can be The One denying That (Immoral) Service at That Particular Time.