A young man sat down beside him on the divan and, without any kind of preliminary, said, โIs it a queer book?โ
โNo,โ said Laurie.
โOh,โ said the young man, on a note of utter deflation. He got up and went away.
โThe Charioteer by Mary Renault
@vminlvletter -Silver in the Wood
-Mrs. Martin's Incomparable Adventure
-The Archive of Alternate Endings
-Enter the Aardvark
-Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
@jellymas7 I think it's not necessarily that they like capitalism but that they specifically associate "woke" with race / gender / sexual orientation. Like there are people who dislike capitalism but are not woke on social/cultural issues
@lavendercxr -She Who Remains (Albania)
-Bad Girls (Argentina)
-My Tender Matador (Chile)
-La Bastarda (Equatorial Guinea)
-Greta & Valdin (New Zealand)
-Leap by Simina Popescu (Romania)
-Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin (South Korea)
-Pure Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Senegal)
you can tell from someone's reaction to this tweet whether they think the point of teaching is a) fostering learning or b) humiliating people who know less than you
@ReplyGuyLLC Plus a lot of straight people have hobbies that heavily skew toward their own gender. The odds are low that a straight woman will meet a straight man in her knitting circle who's single and in her age range (and if she does, she'll probably have a lot of competition)
@ReplyGuyLLC yeah the majority of people in my age range are already partnered, and a lot of Meetup groups explicitly say on their page "We are NOT a dating group!", so it's discouraged to romantically approach people there
Iโm listening to this tape of a panel of gay and lesbian therapists from the 1970s and the gay men are all obsessed with accidentally having sex with their clients in bathhouses and the lesbians are all obsessed with what happens if they run into their clients at poetry readings
@xenocryptsite No, I think you can be part of a community while having few to no friends. For example, you might participate in your church, or your kid's school, or a political organization, without having a lot of friends in that institution.