The Off Topic Topic

[Liep]

A trio to Vegas is thoroughly unappetising.
It was a joke. Made me laugh at least

So the joke is the ambiguity of the boss' response? Or am I missing something because it doesn't really seem fun...

[Barrister]

A trio to Vegas is thoroughly unappetising.
It was a joke. Made me laugh at least

So the joke is the ambiguity of the boss' response? Or am I missing something because it doesn't really seem fun...

Yes.

I didn't get that at first, when I asked whether it was true.  But then I got it: "let you go" could go either way...

[garbon]

Google says the former.

I feel like I'm watching a bunch of linguists trying to decide what their chimpanzee is communicating with sign language.

[Ideologue]

You see, it turns out shoes have soles.

[Admiral Yi]

Grindr is now majority owned by a Chinese online game company.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Grindr is now majority owned by a Chinese online game company.

They'll be moving over to a pay-to-fuck model fairly soon then.

[Josquius]

[garbon]

Grindr is now majority owned by a Chinese online game company.

They'll be moving over to a pay-to-fuck model fairly soon then.

Pretty sure they are already partly that way. All those gaya apps and sites havery paid membership options with more features / no cap on daily views or messages.

[garbon]

I'm a gay male college student in a healthy D/s relationship with a bisexual guy. My boyfriend posts pictures of our kink sessions to his Tumblr. (No faces.) A trans woman active in campus queer politics confronted me today. Ze had seen my boyfriend's Tumblr (!) and recognized me (!!!). Ze demanded I stop engaging in BDSM because ze has to see me on campus and knowing my boyfriend "controls and abuses" me is triggering for zir. Ze said images of me in medical restraints were particularly traumatizing. Ze was shaking and crying, and I wound up comforting zir. I stupidly let zir think I would stop. Now what?
Scenario Utterly Bananas

P.S. Ze also threatened to out my boyfriend if ze saw new pictures go up on his Tumblr. My boyfriend is already out—about being bi and being kinky—so he laughed it off. But how fucked up is that?

You tell this woman you take orders from your boyfriend, SUB, not from random campus nutcases. You advise zir to stay away from Tumblr porn ze finds traumatizing. And if ze pushes back, you explain to zir that if anyone's being controlling and abusive here, it's zir. And if ze starts shaking and crying, SUB, direct zir to the student health center.

And for your own protection, SUB, tell zir all of this with at least one witness present. Document everything, and if ze keeps getting in your face about your consensual, nonabusive D/s relationship, take the ironic step of filing a restraining order against zir.

[Liep]

[Eddie Teach]

You read some strange shit, garbon.

[garbon]

This isn't the first time I've posted bits from Dan Savage's column in the OTT.

[Razgovory]

But can it be the last?

[Valmy]

I thought the 'ze, zir' pronouns were for gender fluid people. Why wouldn't a trans woman use female pronouns? So glad I am old enough to not have to worry about this sort of thing.

[garbon]

But can it be the last?