Their argument being one of false equivalencies, and my argument being that the government should provide all people with the same rights granted by marriage and marriage should instead be a social ritual, + building any right to marriage equality off Obergefell will fail under this administration.

Point 2 drove me off TikTok. Someone called me a bigot when I critiqued their argument in favor of polyamorous marriage equality. I responded with why their argument was flawed, not their position, (I taught rhetoric for years) and they told me it wasn't that deep. WHY'D YOU CALL ME A BIGOT THEN???

I'm just saying that the culture around it in the US is different. It's much less common now here because it was a diagnosis for only a short while, years ago.

In the US, it was removed from the diagnostic journal years ago.

Working on an intricate miniature project detailing chthonic mythology for a diorama competition and watching Junior Taskmaster with my son.

It won't. The Canadians have been telling us for a while now that they're heading the same exact direction. Most of the world is right now.

It feels maddening to balance a mouth full of blisters with the awareness that he really was just trying to love me and underestimated the power of a fancy cup my mother gave me.

Trying to find matzoh in Urbana, IL in 2016 was SIGNIFICANTLY harder than I anticipated as a Californian.

I just cannot imagine how that must have affected parents. I know it did, as there are touching poems, letters, musical works where grieving parents express their sadness. E.g., this Tombeau Robert de Visée wrote for his two daughters, who died in quick succession from a fever

I wonder if she realized how fun it would be to come up with other 7 letter phrases that end in O. B-U-R-R-I-T-O THAT'S HOW YOU SPELL BURRITO!