Mar 15
Corvicula1979 commented on We Can't Make Gay Marriage Legal Because Then Gay People Will Start Having Sex.
Jan 15
Corvicula1979 commented on Bigots Will Have to Fly Into Oakland and Take BART.
You all are lucky in that your IATA airport codes stand a chance of bearing some relationship to the name of the airport (JFK, LHR = London HeathRow) or the name of the city they're in (MIA, DEN, LAX). I live in the land of all IATA codes starting with Y. Specifically my "home" airports are YYZ and YTZ.
(Snipped from Wikipedia's article on IATA airport codes:
"All major airports in Canada use airport codes that begin with the letter "Y", although not all "Y" codes are Canadian. Many Canadian airports simply append a combinations of letters in the city's name to the "Y": YOW for Ottawa, YYC for Calgary, and YVR for Vancouver. Some Canadian codes are much harder to identify simply through the letters alone, particularly at two of Canada's largest airports, YUL for Montreal-Trudeau and YYZ for Toronto-Pearson.")
(Snipped from Wikipedia's article on IATA airport codes:
"All major airports in Canada use airport codes that begin with the letter "Y", although not all "Y" codes are Canadian. Many Canadian airports simply append a combinations of letters in the city's name to the "Y": YOW for Ottawa, YYC for Calgary, and YVR for Vancouver. Some Canadian codes are much harder to identify simply through the letters alone, particularly at two of Canada's largest airports, YUL for Montreal-Trudeau and YYZ for Toronto-Pearson.")
Dec 16, 2012
Corvicula1979 commented on The City Hall of Love.
@15, I hadn't heard about the Seahawks fans. That just makes it (a little bit) awesomer.
Totally using this as a happy pill to cheer me up after all the coverage of Sandy Hook.
Totally using this as a happy pill to cheer me up after all the coverage of Sandy Hook.
Dec 7, 2012
Corvicula1979 commented on Savage Love.
Dan -
Absolutely, big props to all the straight folks who helped it happen!
I live in Canada (it's been legal up here for a few years now, as you know from personal experience!) - so those votes don't affect my life directly, but it sure made me sooooo happy on election night and the day after to see how those 4 state votes went. (And Tammy Baldwin, and on non-LGBT matters, Warren, McCaskill, and the gent who defeated Murdouch, and Rep. Tammy Duckworth....and on and on.. not to mention re-electing Obama!)
Absolutely, big props to all the straight folks who helped it happen!
I live in Canada (it's been legal up here for a few years now, as you know from personal experience!) - so those votes don't affect my life directly, but it sure made me sooooo happy on election night and the day after to see how those 4 state votes went. (And Tammy Baldwin, and on non-LGBT matters, Warren, McCaskill, and the gent who defeated Murdouch, and Rep. Tammy Duckworth....and on and on.. not to mention re-electing Obama!)
Dec 7, 2012
Corvicula1979 commented on Savage Love.
To weigh in on "is poly / monogamy an orientation?"
I don't think there is one right answer. As other commenters have said I think it might be a spectrum. I've known people who couldn't be anything other than monogamous, that's how their "wiring" ended up; and I've also known people who have to be in poly arrangements to be happy. But I think a lot of the rest of us are somewhere in between. For myself, I am capable of being in love with two people at the same time - it's happened to me; but because of jealousy issues, the problems of negotiating and scheduling time etc etc... I feel that I have to work at achieving monogamy, but I also would have to work at getting to a workable polyamory situation, and the monogamy end of things is less effort, from where I'm at. So, somewhere in the middle, a bit closer to mono.
and my second point is... reading my lengthy explanation there: for me, which way I end up living my relationships *is* a choice. But I also recognize that for some people, it really, really isn't a choice, it's how they are.
I don't think there is one right answer. As other commenters have said I think it might be a spectrum. I've known people who couldn't be anything other than monogamous, that's how their "wiring" ended up; and I've also known people who have to be in poly arrangements to be happy. But I think a lot of the rest of us are somewhere in between. For myself, I am capable of being in love with two people at the same time - it's happened to me; but because of jealousy issues, the problems of negotiating and scheduling time etc etc... I feel that I have to work at achieving monogamy, but I also would have to work at getting to a workable polyamory situation, and the monogamy end of things is less effort, from where I'm at. So, somewhere in the middle, a bit closer to mono.
and my second point is... reading my lengthy explanation there: for me, which way I end up living my relationships *is* a choice. But I also recognize that for some people, it really, really isn't a choice, it's how they are.
Nov 28, 2011
Corvicula1979 commented on Trans Football Player Helps Samoan Team Win Match, Break Losing Streak.
this is pretty cool, but when i saw Dan's headline (before reading the comments, and the link), my first thought was a transman in the usual north american sense, playing on a men's team. Which would be cool in a different way.
Sep 23, 2010
Corvicula1979 commented on Savage Love.
@152, your anecdote cracked me up, but also gave me warm fuzzies. Hoorah for the lesbian soldiers.
In general: I think we need to have far more action on bullying of any kind.
When I was in late grade school, about age 9 or 10, the girls I was friends with decided they were the cool clique and I was out of it - thereby losing people I genuinely was friends with, and I spent the rest of my schooling being an outsider, though not actually bullied or taunted.
Now I'm seeing the same thing happening with my nine-year old niece, only with her there *is* name-calling and taunting, and the potential for violence lurking in the background: the clique who are taunting her are friends with some of the biggest, known to be aggressive boys... so she worries that if she stands up to the mean girls, or sasses them back, she may get physically assaulted.
It breaks my heart even thinking she would go through the heartache I did as a preteen and teen, let alone this escalation which is worse than what I dealt with. So many other kids need to know there are adults who've been through the same and care and that it won't always be that way. Maybe they won't ever be so bad as to contemplate suicide, as gay and gay-baited teens do, but we could spare them so much heartache and emotional trauma.
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In general: I think we need to have far more action on bullying of any kind.
When I was in late grade school, about age 9 or 10, the girls I was friends with decided they were the cool clique and I was out of it - thereby losing people I genuinely was friends with, and I spent the rest of my schooling being an outsider, though not actually bullied or taunted.
Now I'm seeing the same thing happening with my nine-year old niece, only with her there *is* name-calling and taunting, and the potential for violence lurking in the background: the clique who are taunting her are friends with some of the biggest, known to be aggressive boys... so she worries that if she stands up to the mean girls, or sasses them back, she may get physically assaulted.
It breaks my heart even thinking she would go through the heartache I did as a preteen and teen, let alone this escalation which is worse than what I dealt with. So many other kids need to know there are adults who've been through the same and care and that it won't always be that way. Maybe they won't ever be so bad as to contemplate suicide, as gay and gay-baited teens do, but we could spare them so much heartache and emotional trauma.
Aug 30, 2010
Corvicula1979 joined My Stranger Face
Aug 30, 2010
Corvicula1979 commented on Savage Love.
Just wanted to add my two cents to the BTL thread. I'm not a tall girl - I'm 5'4", which I think is very close to the North American statistical average for women. While I've dated and / or had crushes on men of many different heights, I realized after the fact that two of the guys I carried torches for, for longer even than usual, were also exactly my height - 5'4". So I'm attracted to any height, but the short ones clearly seem to hit a soft spot for me.
(Also, incidentally, I am acquainted with a stable triad - two girls, one guy; he's fairly short and slender-framed (though fit) and one of the girls, while she may not be taller, is certainly "butch-er" than he is.)
I'm not YOUR type, BTL, but rest assured there are short-guy-lovers out there!
(Also, incidentally, I am acquainted with a stable triad - two girls, one guy; he's fairly short and slender-framed (though fit) and one of the girls, while she may not be taller, is certainly "butch-er" than he is.)
I'm not YOUR type, BTL, but rest assured there are short-guy-lovers out there!
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