His argument was that being a political organization interested in social justice did not merit a Get Out Of Cult For Free card, because apparently he thinks Wicca is such an entity, and Wicca is clearly a cult, with its nasty vagina-having deity and all.
They are charismatic. I've noticed that. It's annoying because unlike with normal creeps, my Creepy Detectors are only effective about a quarter of the time, and people are even less likely to listen to me. (After all, I am not charismatic. I must therefore be jealous.)
And yeah, I have a Try Not To Have Crushes On Lab Partners policy, just because it tends to result in awkardness, but they've made it pretty easy for me not to do that anyway, because I usually either get female lab partners or, uh, the ones who like to play during their live and conscious dissections. I like live dissections because I learn more, not because the specimens are hilarious in their death throes. But YMMV.
I just can't get into the masculine/feminine dichotomy. At all. I'm not really sure why. I think it's probably that I've spent most of my life preferring nongirly stuff and automatically adjusting my IT'S DEFINITELY GENDER NEUTRAL blinkers and LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU brand earplugs so the assumed male audience/consumer/participant wouldn't bug me too much.
(Although, my apparently weird tastes are REALLY fun when someone in fandom decides to label certain kinds of storytelling methods or ships or whatever according to which gender or sexual preference enjoys them, because according to their thinking I ought to be male and/or I completely shouldn't be within theirtwenty-first century labels categorizations of gay/bi/straight. I may not be him, but I really need a Jack Harkness icon for such situations.)
They are charismatic. I've noticed that. It's annoying because unlike with normal creeps, my Creepy Detectors are only effective about a quarter of the time, and people are even less likely to listen to me. (After all, I am not charismatic. I must therefore be jealous.)
And yeah, I have a Try Not To Have Crushes On Lab Partners policy, just because it tends to result in awkardness, but they've made it pretty easy for me not to do that anyway, because I usually either get female lab partners or, uh, the ones who like to play during their live and conscious dissections. I like live dissections because I learn more, not because the specimens are hilarious in their death throes. But YMMV.
I just can't get into the masculine/feminine dichotomy. At all. I'm not really sure why. I think it's probably that I've spent most of my life preferring nongirly stuff and automatically adjusting my IT'S DEFINITELY GENDER NEUTRAL blinkers and LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU brand earplugs so the assumed male audience/consumer/participant wouldn't bug me too much.
(Although, my apparently weird tastes are REALLY fun when someone in fandom decides to label certain kinds of storytelling methods or ships or whatever according to which gender or sexual preference enjoys them, because according to their thinking I ought to be male and/or I completely shouldn't be within their
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