Consider using Tesseract so you can have drop down menu access to archive sites for post links.
Every name for these things is goofy as hell. Woodcock. Timberdoodle. Mudbat. Labrador twister.
At any point while typing this comment you could have realized you were talking about an 11 year old child killed in a genocide and instead simply stopped. In fact, it’s not too late to delete it!
I think people have the right to identify however they please, and someone else's judgment of it is irrelevant at best.
In that case it was very kind of you to direct a similar level of scrutiny to the people in this thread claiming that the only reason bigotry exists is because the bigots are secretly all turned on by it.
I have no idea of the sexuality of whoever it is you're talking about.
Did you miss the subject of this entire post?
No, but that’s clearly the position you need me to have for some reason. Could you explain what you feel is compatible with the concept of identifying as straight while being sexually aroused by expressions of gay sexuality?
It’s kinda funny that there was none of this “sexuality categories don’t real” in this post until a queer person suggested something might have been unintentionally offensive.
I always wonder if the people silently downvoting helpful comments like that know their downvotes are technically public, like anything you post on lemmy, if you’re using the right tool to look at a post.
I don’t think it’s a good idea to do callouts over it or even block people over a single downvote; god knows I fat finger upvotes all the time, and the only reason I don’t do the same for downvotes is Blahaj has them turned off. But boy does it validate my blocking instincts when I peek and it’s someone I’ve already blocked.
It’s because watching a bunch of food water swirl around for half an hour is gross.
I think if you’re a dude getting a boner over dudes kissing after you specifically chose to watch that (as in the OP) and call yourself straight you’re doing some Olympic level mental gymnastics 🤷♂️
I get that you probably just didn’t think about the implications here, but this would mean there were no bigoted straight people.
I wish hell was real.
The wait is agonizing!
This is part of an exhibit on indigenous futurism at the Autry Museum of the American West, called Future Imaginaries. The pictures don’t do it justice, it’s very beautiful to see the stitches in person.
Here’s the information from the accompanying plaque:
Trek (Pleiades)
Marie Watt (Seneca Nation)
2014
Reclaimed wool blankets, satin binding, thread, and embroidery floss
The quilted pattern in Marie Watt's Trek (Pleiades) echoes the nine diamond-like formations found in some Native basketry designs. The number nine also corresponds to the nine brightest stars of the constellation Pleiades, which derives its name from the Seven Sisters of Greek mythology, who were transformed into stars by Zeus to avoid the hunter Orion's unwanted advances.
The Starship Enterprise, delicately embroidered over the diamond pattern, references both lengthy voyages found in Indigenous ancestral stories alongside modern space travel, each intersecting time and space, the historical and contemporary, the real and mythical.
Forgot to add: southern CA, California scrub jay.
I can smell this image, lol. Hope you didn’t get peed on!