• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    chainsaws should not be gender limited. EVERYONE should know to run a chainsaw.

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    “Man the queer out of me” is eerily similar to what my dorm-mate said when his homophobic roommate told him to “man up and cut the f***ot shit.”

    I nearly died laughing when my dorm-mate responded, “oh yeah? You gonna use your manly powers to fuck the f***ot out of me?”

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      Try and try he did. Butnl no matter how hard he tried, and hard he did try, the roommate could not fuck the f***ot out of him. So sad. Try again tomorow…please.

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        They’re doing it wrong, the roommate is supposed to be on the receiving end so the other one can exercise their “manly powers”.

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      I think it’s useful to remember what happened to Francis Bacon after his father caught him wearing his mother’s underwear and had him whipped by a group of boys who worked on their land. He’s my favorite painter but that whole approach at manning someone up is just destructive.

      You should raise a child to allow them to reach their full potential and accept their individual nature, making them fit a very specific indentical mold your pre-conceived ideals is a good way of destroying them.

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        I’m impressed how my oldest sister listened to me throughout my life, learned from my suicide attempts, and identified symptoms and behaviors that my parents overlooked. One of her sons is so astoundingly similar to me, and watching how she supports and advocates for him is incredible.

        Just the way that she sits him down and explains that not knowing that something is a bad choice doesn’t make us bad people as long as we try to do better, or helps him understand his value and her love for him is all enough to make me cry. I’m glad that I survived to see all of this.

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          I relate to your struggles and it often is so infuriating to see people on the bigoted end conflate mental health as an inherent characteristic of queer individuals blaming their queerness rather than to be able to see what alienation does to a brain. Wether it comes from sexism, homophobia or racism, it all is ignorant hate.

          I also walked the path that leads to us corrupting our thinking and giving in to the pressure and hate to think that maybe it is better to rest eternally than to live and suffer.

          Gay pride is proud because it fights the shame that we live in because of hate. And I am proud to still be alive and I am proud of hearing your victory in preserving your mental sovereignty. 🏳️‍🌈

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    Until I read the second paragraph, I thought it was stating that the step grandfather was trying to teach them how to apply eyeliner with a chainsaw.

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    Grandpa wanted you to be able to build your own palisade to defend yourself from the hateful

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    I could use a hella’gay log cabin. No, seriously, I actually want my forever home to be a log cabin dripping with style.