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Discussion (115) - “Soakin’”
Ana Chronistic
nice talk, Joe
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Deathjavu
Those sure wore some words he said.
Charles Phipps
And your charming personality shines again.
Sporky
Wrong universe, Joe.
FLUFFYWOLF
The other shoe is about to drop for Joyce at any moment, I just know it.
Tobias
Is that the shoe with the broken toenail, or was that the first one to drop?
BBCC
Okay, who forgot to invite Marcie?
Regalli
… Oh yeah, she hasn’t really met any of the three onscreen! That needs fixing, clearly. She is the best Ringo.
ValdVin
They already had a Best (Pete Best). Maybe Joe can be him and leave now.
Chris Phoenix
Yeah, that would probably be best.
Plasma Mongoose
So who is John, Paul and George?
Delicious Taffy
Mandy is John because she’s short. Grace is Paul because she got into a car crash and was replaced by a lookalike. Sierra is George because she’s the hot one.
ValdVin
Also, if you’re going for later Beatles, Mandy wears glasses, a la John.
Plasma Mongoose
Grace is a pod person?
Doctor_Who
Hmmm, does anyone at the party really know Marcie? She’s not a student at the school, so she wouldn’t be dormmates with anyone, and Sal, Carla, and Malaya are not in attendance.
I suppose Walky would know her, but it would be off for him to invite his sister’s friend to an event his sister isn’t attending.
Deathjavu
Joyce knows her because she asked Sal about her previously, when she went to borrow the jacket and gloves.
BBCC
Amber knows her too from roller derby.
BBCC
And I can’t imagine Sal wasn’t invited. She hasn’t shown up, but I’m sure she was invited. Becky and Joyce both like her.
Diane
Yeah, but recall the last time Sal was invited to a party…I’m not sure if she’ll come, but she might. Everyone’s had little changes since then, so…who knows?
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2011/comic/book-1/06-yesterday-was-thursday/walmart/
BBCC
Like I said, she might show up, she might not. I’m just sure she was told she was welcome.
Deathjavu
Now that we’re talking about it – Marcie probably just has crappy retail job shift that she couldn’t swap 🙁
BBCC
I mean, realistically, yeah, she works a lot of double shifts at Target.
Getting canned from the security gig didn’t help, I’m sure.
Regalli
Oh, Becky…
shadowcell
Homeless Disaster Lesbian is gonna be pretty good at Coachella, i can feel it
Doctor_Who
Is Garbage Roof playing? Or will they still be on tour with Blowjob Cat?
mrnoidea
THEY FORGOT DUKE OF THINGLY
abysswatcher1993
And the classic rock band Empirical Evidence, with Joyce singing “Detective Love Lesbian.”
Pacce
I feel like I’ve missed a step here. Everything with Becky and Dina seemed perfectly fine until the very moment of the party.
Jo
No, Becky showed insecurities over the relationship when she bought the giant dinosaur
Pacce
AH! Right you are, thanks. It all makes a lot more sense once I consider that, in order to get what she wants out of life and be with her girlfriend, she has had abandon any ideals or morality. So yeah, guilt!
Now I just wonder if she resents Dina for NOT judging her for her actions.
Kamino Neko
Things between Becky and Dina ARE perfectly fine.
That’s actually part of the problem, I’d wager.
Becky’s self esteem is garbage, so she consistently feels she’s unworthy of Dina. And the longer Dina doesn’t realize that Becky isn’t good enough for her, the worse it’ll be when she does. So she needs to Be Perfect so she can Be Worthy of Dina.
Norah
Why would Dina think that?
Br44n5m
She wouldn’t, that’s just what the insecurity thinks Dina is thinking
Kamino Neko
Exactly.
Kamino Neko
Because Becky is a Homeless Disaster Lesbian, who is Unworthy.
Sure, if you asked Dina what she thought on the matter, she’d disagree. But Becky’s low self esteem knows. It’s only a matter of time before Dina sees her in the Harsh Light of Day.
Nono
See Becky, the trick is we’re all disasters. Even the straights. Maybe.
Carms
UGH, ESPECIALLY the straights.
FLUFFYWOLF
the straights only seem less like disasters because barely any of us know how not to be a disaster. Or even that we’re disasters in the first place.
tyersome
So, we’re being graded on a curve then?
z
NGL, to an outside observer straight folk seem like PLENTY disasters. Can we talk about misogyny for a minute and how guys disrespect a group they spend their life with? Or how crappy straight sexuality has been for women? Or housework and childrearing disparities? (Probably feels like I’m picking on men, I honestly believe our culture hurts straight men just as much but in ways we don’t acknowledge as damaging)
The baseline normal for heterosexuality in our culture is a disaster, IMHO.
LeslieBean4shizzle
So true.
Women can wear literally anything we want. Any color. Pants or skirts. Fuck, I knew a girl in highschool who sewed her father’s reject ties together into a skirt. It was fucking awesome.
Men’s clothes are SO BORING… because of restrictive gender roles.
So join us, male types, in throwing off the shackles of the restrictive social norm! Wear any color! Throw off your butt prisons and wear skirts, dresses, or kilts!
Delicious Taffy
As a previously male-identifying, I fully endorse your message.
Terry
Oh, yes, it hurts men. From a psychological stand-point, men suppress SO MUCH. Men are encouraged not to feel emotions unless they can be channeled into aggression, meaning that guys can’t adequately express sadness, affection, fear, concern, etc. This perpetuates the stereotype that men need to be brutes. Any men who are incapable of filling this role adequately are scorned and belittled, creating severe self-esteem issues and depression from the pressure to conform to this ideal (similar to how women feel the pressure to be feminine and attractive, but slightly more constricting because women are allowed to express their emotions more openly preventing some of the culturalized mental damage). Before people jump to yell at me, I’m not saying men have it worse than women, only that in the specific area of personality, men are more restricted than women because it is ok for a woman to be tomboyish, but any little hint of perceived femininity in a man is automatically punished.
Men are also restricted in acceptable jobs. Admittedly, the jobs that men are expected to have are more well-paying, but it still is a restriction for men to not have careers that they may be more happy with. Men are derided for having jobs as nurses, flight attendants, dancers, receptionists, fashion-designers… If a guy has these jobs, the message is that he must be gay. Look at any movie or tv show. If a straight man has these jobs as careers, it’s used as a joke to poke fun at someone for assuming. But we assume because that is what media has told us for years.
End of the day, men may be “in charge” but that doesn’t make it a good thing. For the women OR the men.
Matthew Evan Davis
As a straight, can confirm.
Keulen
Straight guy here, definitely disaster.
Plasma Mongoose
They are often bend out of shape.
Delicious Taffy
Now, you wouldn’t be implying that The Straights, whose descriptor includes a word implying a lack of bent-ness, you wouldn’t be implying they might be occasionally bent, now would you?
Delicious Taffy
I used to think I was straight, and I’ve been a disaster since the 1990s.
LeslieBean4shizzle
**puts on College Lecturer outfit**
Actually, “Disaster Lesbian” refers to lesbians who get tongue-tied around their female crush. It’s apparently a commonly used term, but I had to look it up the first time I saw it too.
Apparently this stems from the idea that “normal” lesbians don’t have trouble talking to their crushes because “hey, we’re all women” so they can be super casual about it. Which is NOT my experience at all, or it wasn’t when I was dating in college. So guess I’m a “disaster lesbian” too inspite of being bi.
Oh, and if this thread was a joke and you already knew what the term meant, then —
**sticks out tongue, blows a raspberry, and runs away**
SeasideSun
In my experience the term “Disaster Lesbian” has kind of morphed into having trouble not just talking to crushes but also having trouble with existence. Due to mental health issues, self esteem, etc, it’s turned into a sort of “I am not successful at existence unlike other people, for example I can’t even tell when someone is flirting!”
It’s not super healthy. Or rather, super not healthy.
This information is coming from my experiences on tumblr and reddit with the lesbian communities there.
WikiDreamer
As one who’s considerably straight but far from appreciative of the female form and fully supportive of all non-harmful walks of life, I can 2.5M% agree: deep down, we’re all nothing but disasters just barely masking a semblance of having it together while constantly getting dragged out to surging storm waters, drowning, surfacing and drowning over and over and over again all the while choking out “I’m OK!”
PHNX
“Come together”.
LeslieBean4shizzle
“Right now”
He Who Abides
“Over me”
Delicious Taffy
So long as Becky doesn’t have a fit at Dina over this, there’s no harm in venting insecurities.
Yumi
Spend time with your girlfriend, Becky.
StClair
Can’t, she’s too busy proving herself worthy of doing that!
DarkoNeko
Joe’s usually the one spending the parties in the bedroom
begbert2
Which is the reason he’s mentioning that there’s only one, and that it’s occupied. In his mind this would be a better party if there were spaces for shagtimes.
Stephen Bierce
“Gimme a beat, Ringo! I’m ready to sing now.”–John Lennon
Bagge
JUST TAKE HER TO THE MUSEUM, BECKY!!!
DarkoNeko
“HER PLACE IS IN A MUSEUM” — Indiana Jo–Becky
Danielle
good job, i guess, joe
Mra
Yeah, a party like this seems kind of odd for the two guests of honor, neither of which are accustomed to such socialization
Miri
Hence the Quiet Room. But even though Dina finds too much socialisation overwhelming, it’s not necessarily that she doesn’t enjoy it (see: her at Joyce’s party). And Sarah is actually having a Top 5th birthday.
Becky did a good job. But yeah, crippling insecurities…
Needfuldoer
She enjoys it in moderate doses, given enough downtime between them to fully absorb and analyze the experience.
Rei
Are you kidding? I’ve been refreshing since 12:02 am and then I make a completely new window only to see all you’re comments here.
Delicious Taffy
We’re all commenting via TARDIS, don’t worry.
Tacos
Ringo? Is this some new slang the kids are saying and I’m just old? Or is it something else and I’m just being dumb?
BBCC