Yeah it's one thing I do miss but it's not something I'd really go out if my way for here

Subtly?

He was! Tbh he was the one guy I dated I regret having to break up with. I hope he's doing well now

Honestly he was that charming kind of awkward and shy boy who got a lot of shit for it

the very *fact* many of you see christianity as almost the “default” is proof of this

the very fact that many in this country would immediately assume all religions work like christianity is proof of americas culturally christian roots

simply “being atheist” or “rejecting religion” is not enough to free you of these roots nor is it enough to allow you to more effectively fight against christian hegemony and modern colonialism

you *must* educate yourself and free yourself of the false dichotomy between christianity and “atheism”

Oh we met on a kind of dating app? This was pre tinder though. He loved wearing cat ears/doing whiskers with makeup, yes he was. We did but a lot of it was gaming together. I don't actually remember. And it lasted til we left for different colleges

This was before crypto bros were a thing btw

I mean he was really into Linux, bitcoin (it was still new enough it wasn'treally known about yet), and online pharmaceuticals

Oh and internet piracy

Ngl I think that people as a whole need to get more comfortable with grey areas and internal contradictions for anything involving people and their lives

Tbh that's just writing in general. I have so much more material that never even gets close than I'll ever even consider putting into a written work

I remember when there was an entire campaign to just get kids to stop using gay as a generic insult

What would've happened had you?

This is one of the specific ways that patriarchy harms men in fact. They benefit from that system, but it still limits them or they risk losing that privilege.

As if they don't immediately have their masculinity (along with according privilege) questioned for stepping out of line and openly engaging with culturally understood to be feminine interests?

Okay let me reframe: why are "men" socially discouraged from liking these things?

And you weren't? What made it socially difficult for you to explore women-aimed romantasy?

You say that as if an entire generation of kids didn't grow up reading eragon and the like. With how the default is so commonly centered on "masculine" things, a lot of girls grew up with that

Yeah my ex wife actually really likes her music