1. What do you think caused your heterosexuality?
2. When and how did you decide you were heterosexual?
3. Is it possible that your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
4. Is it possible that your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of others of the same sex?
5. If you have never slept with a person of the same sex, it is possible that all you need is a good gay lover?
6. Do your parents know you're straight? Do you friends and/or roommates know? How did they react?
7. Why do you insist on flaunting your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
8. Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex?
9. Why do heterosexuals feel compelled to seduce others into their lifestyle?
10. A disproportionate majority of child molesters are heterosexual. Do you consider it safe to expose children to heterosexual teachers?
11. Just what do men and women do in bed together? How can they truly know how to please each other, being so anatomically different?
12. With all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals?
13. Statistics show that lesbians have the lowest incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Is it really safe for a woman to maintain a heterosexual lifestyle and run the risk of disease and pregnancy?
14. How can you become a whole person if you limit yourself to compulsive, exclusive heterosexuality?
15. Considering the menace of overpopulation, how could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual?
16. Could you trust a heterosexual therapist to be objective? Don't you feel s/he might be inclined to influence you in the direction of her/his own leanings?
17. There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that might enable you to change if you really want to. Have you considered trying conversion therapy?
18. Would you want your child to be heterosexual, knowing the problems that s/he would face?
From Changing Men, Spring 1982.
The government finally ok'd the sale of the morning after pill to over 18 year olds - both women buying it for themselves and men buying it for their partners.
As a side note, it amuses me that they use the availability of the morning after pill to minors as something that will assist sexual predators. What's next?! Condoms?!
But whatever, one small victory at a time.
Let's not even go into all the other things the stupid republicans are doing because today was off to a good start.
If things like this keep happening, carrying liquids on a plane won't be the last thing we'll be bitching about. People need to stop being so damn scared and quit giving up their freedoms because of "terrorist" attacks.
Don't you get that our country has basically treated everyone like shit for the past century or two and now we're finally getting what we've been handing out to everyone else? Eventually, we're going to get attacked by a country NOT from the middle east and then Bush is going to have to redefine the meaning of terrorism.
Did it ever occur to you that we might be terrorists too? The good old U S of A has done some pretty shitty stuff since its inception (not to say that other countries haven't) and now we're bitching because someone finally grew enough balls to attack us.
WE ARE NOT INVINCIBLE. People need to realize this. Shit like the Patriot Act is not going to save you from "terrorists". AND! Preventing immigrants from coming into this country is just one of the reasons why people are starting to hate us more.
And if Bush could stop referring to all of Islam as facist terrorists, I would greatly appreciate it. If he took 5 seconds and looked at the Koran and the majority of the people who practice Islam, he'd stop generating stereotypes that are causing people to be beat down in the streets. Not everyone is educated enough to know that Islam isn't a violent religion. Every religion, every culture, has an extremist vein to it... and I'm starting to think that Bush is ours. I'd be willing to bet a large amount of money Bush is going to use this incidident to invade Iran. Iran is not Iraq. We should not be fucking with Iran. If we fuck with Iran... we'll end up bending over and taking it.
All Bush is doing with these speeches is generating hate and prejudice towards a normally civilized group of people. I don't know... this crazy part of me is thinking if we weren't INVADING THEIR COUNTRY they wouldn't be trying to attack us all the fucking time.
Muslims : Bush :: Jews : Hitler
I realize this is not the most articulated thing in the world, but I am extremely pissed off right now. I hate the fact that I am being associated with my country and the racist (not to mention sexist, classist, etc) views our President holds.
Cici and I have decided that making a post about the weather (specifically, how "hot" it is) is getting really annoying. Not only that, but it's pointless.
It is summer. Get over it. It's hot. Accept it and move on. Nobody cares what temperature it is in your city... and if you think the comments they are leaving on the 5 posts you make a week about the weather indicate that they do, in fact, care - news flash - THEY DON'T. The only reason people comment is because they want to bitch about their weather, too. All your posts do is create a competition of "who has the hottest weather". No, really, read your comments. I'm willing to bet almost all (if not all) of them contain a brief mention of how terrible their weather is. Nobody will win this competition because, for obvious reasons, different states have different levels of humidity, sun exposure, and all that other shit that makes warm temperatures unbearable. 115 degrees of dry heat in California may not sound too bad to you in Florida with your ridiculously high levels of humidity, but it's all relative.
So in the end, it doesn't matter how hot you think it is where you are because someone else will just as easily disagree and think their weather is worse.
And it isn't a "heat wave". It's a season. If it wasn't hot it wouldn't be summer. Let's take a moment to gander at the definition of summer:
The usually warmest season of the year, occurring between spring and autumn and constituting June, July, and August in the Northern Hemisphere, or, as calculated astronomically, extending from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox.
For fuck's sake, find something else to write about because all you're doing is stating the obvious and boring me to tears.
Those republicans just don't give up and it is really starting to piss me off.
Last November, Proposition 73 -- the parental notification initiative -- lost by a modest margin, 52.6 percent to 47.4 percent. Meanwhile, Schwarzenegger's four reform measures targeting teacher tenure, union dues, legislative district boundaries and state budgeting practices lost by sweeping margins.
Now the parental notification measure -- which would require doctors to inform a parent or guardian before performing abortions on girls under 18 -- is back on the Nov. 7 ballot, as Proposition 85. And this time, Democrats and supporters of legal abortion hope the measure -- endorsed by Schwarzenegger in 2005 -- will help boost his opponent, Democratic state Treasurer Phil Angelides.
Seriously? This is California, not the south. If a liberal state like this passed such a ridiculous bill, what do you think other states would do? How is this ok? If your daughter is so petrified of what you will do to her if she tells you she's pregnant and wants an abortion under the age of 18, then you need to rethink your parent/child relationship, not pass a law the requires a doctor notify you of your child's desire for an abortion. If your daughter can't come to you with her problems, you have a bigger issue than under aged kids having sex and getting pregnant. And the kid probably GOT pregnant because her parents were too stuffy to tell her anything about sex and her state education didn't provide her with much information in sex ed, either. Way to go, Bush and Ahhnuld. You're doing a great job dropping the teent pregnancy rate.
You know what is going to happen if this passes? Some 17 year old girl is going to get pregnant and her Catholic parents won't let her have an abortion and she'll turn 18 shortly before or after she has the child. Then, she'll proceed to sue the state of California - and her parents - and hopefully, she'll win. Forcing your daughter to give birth to a child she doesn't want is absolutely ridiculous. The scary thing is, there are parents out there who would actually do it.
Me: Mom my hair is falling out all over the place and I'm all itcy.
Mom: What?! Are you doing crack?!
Me: No. I think I have cancer.
Mom: You don't have cancer.
Me: You're right. I have college.
Mom: See, you're fine.
Me: Doesn't it bother you that college is making me bald?
Mom: No.
Me: ....
Mom: You have to make big bucks and buy me another Harley.
Me: Good to know you're looking out for my well being, Mom.
Mom: No problem.
Every once in a too frequent while, I will have a professor who absolutely refuses to relinquish control of the classroom. These are the teachers that often get classified as the ones who like to hear themselves talk. This summer session I have been blessed with one of these amazing professors. These "doctorheads" tend to share several key traits in their teaching methods:
- They repeat themselves constantly. You can ignore them for 10-20 minute time spans and miss out on almost nothing.
- If you stop taking notes and filtering out things, you'll notice half the stuff they say is complete hogwash. They'll throw in big words and names to make it sound important but they are really just filling space until they can repeat themselves again.
- When they ask a question, they don't ever really hear the answer you provide. If you said "blue artichoke" to a question about polygamy, they would respond by saying "I think you mean..." or "I see what you're getting at...". Even if your response is nowhere near what they want to hear, they twist your words to make it right - even if that taking the exact opposite of what you said.
- They encourage class discussion and participation (often making it part of your grade) but rarely provide time for it. They make sure to regulate every word coming out of your mouth by doing #3. If they decide to make "participation" part of your grade, they're really just grading the amount of times you atteneded class and didn't fall asleep.
- They rely solely on the banking system of education: listen + memorize = regurgitate... and then they have the nerve to wonder why no one ever comes to class. If they're anything like me, they're at home looking up the material on google.
- If you have a question about your grade, odds are they don't know your name and will send you to the TA. In my experience, TAs grade most of your work and tend to be more lenient about changing grades than professors... so this might be a good thing. That is, until you need letters of rec for grad school.
- They can never tell (or they can and just ignore it) when everyone starts tuning them out and doodling in their notebooks or sending text messages.
- THEY GOT TENURE A DECADE AGO AND STOPPED CARING.
When I get teachers like this, it makes me wonder if I really want to be a college professor. I would like to point out that the 17 minutes I spent writing this in my 8AM Anthropology class didn't cause me to get loss or miss any information.
I'm getting to that age where when I check out men, I look at their ring fingers. I never thought "getting to that age" would mean twenty years old. I have multiple friends (all within a few years of my age) that are getting married or are already married. I might just be looking at their ring fingers because I tend to date older men... but there's got to be more to it than that.
I'm also getting to that age where the men I start dating aren't married for a reason. If they're in their mid to late twenties and are moderately attractive and hold a good job, it generally means that there is something else wrong with them. Often times they are serial adulterers, drug addicts, drunks, or living at home with their parents. To me, this train of thought is counterintuitive but I still do it. Allow me to explain.
The type of man that I would date probably isn't the biggest fan of marriage or is in no rush to make himself a part of it. So if he is in his mid to late twenties and isn't married that should be exactly what I'm looking for - should all the other pieces come together. But instead of seeing it that way, I always ask myself "what is so wrong with this guy that he isn't married already?"
Maybe I have such a confusing outlook because I think of marriage as a fate worse than death most times. The idea of getting married tends to give me nightmares... but then again, I am only twenty. I can't pick (and keep) a hair color for more than a month at a time, let alone pick a life partner. So maybe something is wrong with the men who are married in their mid to late twenties instead of the ones who aren't...
Divorcees and people who have been married multiple times tend to have a higher rate of psychological disorders than single or widowed people. Maybe I am doing something right here!
