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Oh shaddap xD Although one of them IS taken, which leaves one free

This is heartbreaking as it is frank. Thank you for sharing

I miss browsing movies with my parents as a child, but I don't think I'd actually put up with those late fees and hassle to return movies within a 3 day period :0

Gonna take a moment to fanboy over Adventure Club's new EP because it's amazing and I can't study... And they're so hot wtf, I want to marry them both. 1) "Wonder" featuring Kite String Tangle 2) "Gold" featuring Yuna Anyone else here on GA into EDM?

I don't really have a problem with this whole thing but if you think about it the whole concept is really contradictory. It seems like he wants to break boundaries regarding virginity but then again he's been planning it for like three years and now he's making a huge ass deal out of it. It seems like he's internalized these heteronormative beliefs in the process of trying to create something that defies them xD

Totally. Enormous. Extinct. Dinosaurs :>

Well. I really have no idea what to feel about this LOL

oh you prejudiced, prejudiced humans

this is the most heartwarming conversation i've had in a long while guys, PLURAS (peace love unit respect 4 all spiders) Also

That was my favourite childhood movie okay LOL Rockabye baby, in the treetop, here's comes a jumping spider, cuddle cuddle cuddle cuddle

IT'S TYLER WARD *A* I really enjoyed that

That's really scary. I'm glad you cancelled the meeting. I used to meet guys through sketch means too out of curiosity but I quickly grew out of that after some shitty experiences. Now when my friends go off with people they don't know well I always tell them to text me where they're going to be and text me after they finish just to be safe. I find that people (or men at least) are generally by default pretty trusting when it comes to things like this, and since you'd probably never be able to identify a sociopath until he stabs you in the face... I think it's just best to avoid going off with strangers in general LOL.

Yeah. I just find it crazy how sociopaths can manipulate someone's emotions like this and how easy they pass off as being ordinary so to speak.

Okay

A bucket of halloween candy :<

This is really not important. What I'm getting from you is "Don't generalize all people with narrow dating preferences, because not everyone with them is a dick!" But that's not the point. Narrow preferences should be critiqued because it's a problem and it promotes discrimination, and if the odd person with narrow dating preferences who isn't a dick gets offended by this movement, they're part of the problem and no one really cares about their butthurt. I'd rather not repeat myself so think of this analogy: When feminists say, "Join the movement to eliminate rape culture promoted by men!" There's usually an uproar wherest men who aren't rapists go all out and say "Well I'm a man and I'm not a rapist so don't generalize me. It's not fair to me 'cause I didn't do anything! Place your critique appropriately on real rapists." No one targetted them in the first place and if they feel like they were, no one cares about their feels. This is evident of privilege and normalization in men and it distracts from the movement. I myself am a person with narrow dating preferences, I'm not going to sit here and be like oh I find everything sexy, once I jerked off fantasizing about a flower plant, diversity fuck yeah. I am a product of these problematic socializations, and I welcome critique, and I critique myself. Obviously no one has gone Nazi on me demanding me to change because I'm not a dick about it. And if I got all butthurt about it anyways and said "hey you know what I'm a victim of socialization, don't critique me!" no one should give a shit about my butthurt either because they're distractions to the real problem.

I agree. I think it's important that narrow dating preferences are critiqued. The uproar in defense of their socialized preferences is a product of normalization and people need to realize that.

Stop it james you're turning me on

Happy Birthday!!

I agree that it's unrealistic and militant to expect everyone to change their preferences, especially when, socialization aside, people are drawn to similar people. But I DO think it's totally fair to call out on the way people act on it -- I wrote this article not to specifically target macho guys who want macho guys, but basically to target everyone's incessant need to be macho and white and a dick all at the same time. That means macho guys who think their machoness is an accomplishment and effeminate guys who are trying to be macho because they think machoness makes one guy better than the other, and then discriminate under the cover of "preference" like fuck. I agree that critiquing where it begins is very important, but critiquing this sort of behaviour is important too because it exacerbates and normalizes the problem. If someone is already straight acting or was forced to cover to be straight acting, I see absolutely nothing wrong with it. It's totally cool for a guy to be straight acting and it's sad that someone had to cover, but to view their own mannerisms as superior and other people to view their mannerisms as superior is as wrong as discriminating against macho guys and people who had to end up macho. This sort of perspective often comes hand in hand with preferences so it's not so easy to isolate. Everyone is a 'victim' of socialization but that doesn't give you an excuse to say I yam what I yam; don't judge me for it. Holy that was a long sentence

a) Preference is largely based off on socializations around us. A lot of these are fundamentally problematic, e.g. desiring people who only fit in media defined standards of beauty. No, it doesn't make your mind a pencil dick, but it is problematic, and it is even more so if one doesn't acknowledge it. Valuing masculinity is great IN THEORY, if it didn't have any repercussions towards others who don't have masculinity -- so in other words, if valuing masculinity was a component of a valuing diversity, it would be great. Valuing masculinity in real life often means devaluing femininity. So no, I don't think I'm being narrow minded, I think you're missing the major point here. c) Sure, I made fun of a select few macho wannabes, but I don't think guys in general should tone down the testosterone -- that's not the issue. The issue is guys need to realize that the gay standard of beauty is narrow and fundamentally problematic. Straight guys are privileged, and so straight acting gay guys and bisexuals are glorified, which in the process devalues all other "types" of gays. A lot of their preferences are based off on this, which incites a whole community of obsessive behaviours to "become masculine" and to get a "masculine dude" which makes a whole shitload of people feel bad. I pass off as "straight-acting" to guys I've gone out with, and it used to please me how I easily fit into their desires and phew, how they didn't see me as "obviously" gay or whatever. But I acknowledge fault. Those kind of thoughts are problematic and harmful when acted upon (such as by making the above masculine online profile).

Just in time for the end of Halloween. This is both horrifying and absolutely fascinating. Wow @ sociopaths. And yes, it's Thought Catalog, though this article is definitely not a miss. The title is: "I Met A Convicted Serial Killer, And He Made Me Feel More Loved Than Anyone Else In My Life" http://thoughtcatalog.com/jay-roberts/2013/10/i-met-a-convicted-serial-killer/

WOW IESHWAR LOL

ow, my head hurts :<

only if im paid in dicks