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when programs fucking autocorrect <3 to ❤️ and :) to 😃,,,, do you have any idea what you’ve just done?? what you just fucking destroyed ?

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On Discomfort and Morality

My father finds gay men uncomfortable.

He's told me before that it's like a knee-jerk for him. Something he doesn't consciously control. He sees two men behaving romantically, and his body reacts with mild discomfort.

In the 1960s, when he was in high school, most of the boys in his form thought he was gay on the simple fact that he wasn't homophobic. He wouldn't participate in insulting queer people, he didn't care if someone was gay, he wouldn't have a problem hanging out with gay people. So people thought he was gay. That's how prevalent homophobia was in his formative years.

When I was 10, my dad told me very seriously that Holmes and Watson were gay. That it was obvious from the literature and the time period that they were meant to be a gay couple. When I was 14 and I came out to my parents as bi, when my mum was upset my dad ripped into her for it. Told her that she was being stupid, that it was my life to live how I wanted to and that she needed to get over herself.

My dad formed my views on censorship: that being that it was completely ridiculous and thoroughly evil. He didn't believe in censorship of any kind. If I asked him a question about sex, he answered it honestly. When I was 12 and I asked him about homosexuality, still young and uncertain, he told me that there was nothing wrong with it. That it was just how some people were. That there was likely an evolutionary reason for it. And that for some people it was uncomfortable on an instinctual level.

He taught me that just because you're uncomfortable with something, doesn't make it wrong. He also taught me that most people don't understand this.

I see a lot of this on the internet as of the last few years. The anti shipping movement, the terf movement, the anti ace movement. It all stems from discomfort that people have crossed wires into believing means wrong. Really every -ism and -phobia out there stems from this same fundamental aspect of humanity.

The next time you see something and you automatically think it's disgusting, or wrong, or immoral, I invite you to ask yourself: is this actually wrong or does this just make me uncomfortable?

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do you like yaoi yeah we like yaoi do you like yuri yeah we like yuri do you like frnech toast yeah we like french toast

#do do-do do cant wait to get a mouthful!!

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fake horse adventures

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#idk tbh #def not a classic wedding #but if i met someone and we vibed and wanted to be like queer lifepartners id be down to tie the knot

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#first time i kissed a girl it was at a sleepover during truth or dare #first time i kissed a boy it was at a friends party playing spin the bottle #like did you guys not practice kissing with your friends when you were preteens?

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I know this is a tiny part of the wider problems born of diet culture, fatphobia, classicism, and racism but like god the idea that "healthy" food must inherently taste bad has completely ruined us as a society.

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why is dungeon meshi trending? well you see. boob 👍

#dunmeshi

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listening to music i listened to when i was 14 makes me realise im still the same person but taller & with a rare esoteric wisdom that can only be gained through suffering

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there is always some fucking laundry and dust and some other shit

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#does the demon wanna take over and pilot this flesh suit

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I'm just interesting what's gonna be the result on Tumblr

#yeah 2 so far. 👀 but i wanna be tatted up #one is vaguely fandom adjacent.

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#my prev phone was like 5 years. and i would have kept using it. except it didnt have a memory card slot so i couldnt increase memory #the phone i have now is second hand and ive had it for like 3years. and i intend to use it till i cant anymore

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#cat shows are so good