ChaosRocket
ChaosRocket wrote
Reply to The hidden crisis on college campuses: 36 percent of students don’t have enough to eat by leftous
And you can’t get food stamps if you’re in college.
I was actually able to go to college for free with FAFSA since my income was so low, but as soon as I enrolled they took my food stamps away since apparently it’s a a national policy that you can’t receive food stamps if you’re enrolled in college.
ChaosRocket wrote
Reply to Four Terrible Bisexuality Tropes on TV, and Four Portrayals That Defy Them by An_Old_Big_Tree
Has the person who wrote this article ever seen Glee?
I don’t see how Brittany fits the “promiscuous bi” trope. She had a total of 3 sexual partners over the course of the series, all of whom she was in a serious relationship with. Is that really the bar for promiscuity?
Also Santana doesn’t fit the “straight to gay” trope at all. She was never straight- from the very beginning, she was in a sexual relationship with Brittany and was in love with her, but was in denial about her feelings because she feared Brittany didn’t feel the same way, and was in denial about her sexually due to internalized homophobia. So she has a few shallow sexual relationships with men to try to convince herself and others that she was straight. She was clearly never interested in the men- she would bring Brittany on all her “dates” with men and make out with her.
Her storyline was really clear that she was always a lesbian but was just in denial for a couple years as a young teen. As soon as she admitted she was actually in love with Brittany and not just “fooling around,” she also admitted she was a lesbian.
That’s a really, really common thing in the real world, for young lesbians to sleep with a couple men in an attempt to convince themselves they’re straight. Actually I think that’s more common than not, because of heteronormativity. I think it’s actually invalidating to lesbians to act like anyone who ever slept with a man as a young teen is automatically bi.
ChaosRocket wrote
Summary: “When all you’ve known is privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
ChaosRocket wrote
Reply to ‘Describe Yourself Like a Male Author Would’ Is the Most Savage Twitter Thread in Ages by An_Old_Big_Tree
I really wonder what it is with straight cis men and the absolute obsession with boobs. You just don’t seem to see it with any other group that’s attracted to women- bi men, bi/straight trans men, bi/lesbian women...sure they LIKE boobs, but there’s just not this absolute, all-consuming obsession. You can always tell when any piece of fiction is written by a straight cis dude because it’ll just go on and on about boobs when they’re not relevant at all.