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Hi, a message from a Dutch girl in the UK…Just found your website tonight and love it!! I would like to know what your favorite lesbian films are? Thanks.

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I identify as bi, and sexually, I’m 50/50 - but I feel like I want to “end up” with a guy. I can’t tell if I’m truly heteroromantic, or if it’s just either internalized homophobia or because my *current* object of affection is a man. Help?

this is going to sound flippant or dismissive but it’s honestly not –
think about it. just think about it and try to figure it out and one day you will.

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do you think homosexuality is something genetic? if so, don’t you think this consideration can be also an excuse for homophobic people to call it an illness/ genetic mutation like some other hereditary illness and (in the future) try to erradicate it?

i am tempted to say i think homosexuality is caused by hot people of the same sex, but i think you wanted a serious answer

so far the most convincing evidence i’ve seen is that it’s primarily about hormone and chemical levels in the womb during pregnancy, combined with certain amount environmental surroundings and genetics. that wouldn’t explain everything - for instance, while twins are more likely to both be gay than other sets of siblings, there are still identical twins who are different sexual orientations. and yes, it’s sort of true that allowing for any kind of biological difference means that people might assign abnormal status to it. but to be honest, that was going to happen anyway, and already does all the time. see: eugenics, scientific racism, the entire medical community’s concept of gender before like 1975, etc. trying to change our version of the story so that it won’t freak out the homophobes won’t work. we have to change the homophobes so that they quit freaking out.

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what’s your morning routine like?

+ i get up around 7:30 or 8am

+ i make coffee and some kind of breakfast situation

+ before bed i always schedule something to publish on AS while i’m still asleep b/c of the east coast/west coast time diff, so i check on that and also do a quick scan of wordpress to see the progress on other posts for the day and publish and/or edit whatever claims to be ready

+ if the post i published overnight was my post, i re-read it for any errors and check in with the comments.

+ i quickly check twitter & google news to see if there’s any breaking news

+ i make a list of things i want to talk about in the morning meeting

+ at 9am laneia and i have the morning meeting on skype to discuss the day

+ then at 9:30/10 you could say my “morning routine” is over

+ i don’t shower/etc until after i go to the gym which is usually around 1pm

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