Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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  • Also you don’t have to be gay to enjoy gay media. I suppose some people need to know that it’s safe for non gays to read it but I feel it’s awkward to be like “as a non lgbt person this was good”.

    Suppose I just didn’t want to give the impression that I was speaking on matters I have no experience with. Like “This is definitely the LGBT Experience™” when I’m a cis straight guy.











  • Explanation: Roman legionaries often were enthusiastic about going on campaign - campaigns meant plunder and opportunity to prove one’s valor and advance in the ranks! Only… some campaign destinations are more desirable than others.

    Hispania, for some 300 years, was a bloody ulcer in Rome’s side. Rome exercised control over it, but only loosely, with Hispanian guerillas subjecting Roman troops to constant attrition, little glory, and, perhaps worst of all, no clear enemy to loot and enslave. How terrible! Yet all the same, Roman armies were (begrudgingly) sent into Hispania again and again and again to subdue it, each time emerging with little progress to show for it.
























  • I bet in regular conversation on the topic of dragons nobody is going to lose their shit about you reminding people a dragon is a mythical creature.

    But if you put it in context of this person it becomes mockery and that’s not cool.

    Likewise, in regular conversation on the topic of the earth, no one is going to lose their shit over me reminding people the world is round.

    But saying it to a flat-earther, it takes on a very different tone.

    But both of those examples fail to fully encapsulate what is being shown here - these posts in the OP? They’re all from a thread in which drag is not a participant, in a comm where drag is literally banned. This is not even “Don’t tell flat-earthers the earth is round”, this is “Don’t ever suggest that flat-earth isn’t valid”.