   Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
"Don't waste any time mourning. Organize!"
-Joe Hill
My brother texted the family group chat this quote before he went to work today. I'm not in a good place this morning, but we can't lose ourselves to despair. I know I have a lot of anger right now, but getting into whose fault that is won't help anyone.
Dwelling on the people I will never forgive won't help anyone.
I'm not that optimistic, but hope is a choice we can still make. It's a hard one to make this morning, but I'm still going to do my best. We are where we are, and focusing on yesterday won't change that. We can only move forward, and save as many as we can along the way.
There will be a tomorrow because we're going to make sure there's a tomorrow.
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Sometimes just saying “Doin stuff” gets the point across well enough that you can stay relatively on the more appropriate side of a conversation so it doesn’t turn into a conversation on your sex life. Also Sarah must be very nervous to talk about all of this.
Good show, Sarah.
Language can be weird. There’s this mental block of ‘that’s a bad word, don’t say that word’ that lingers long after you’ve gotten used to whatever the word refers to.
Straight and not straight are not the only options, just sayin’.
Well technically they ARE — in the same sense that everything is either directly to your left or not directly to your left. Or everything is located in Des Moines or NOT located in Des Moines. Or all words rhyme with Mellon or they don’t rhyme with mellon. 😛
You do realize that one of the two characters in this conversation is asexual, right?
Actually, Trae’s right.
However, straight and gay are not the only options.
Exactly
While “straight and gay are not the only options” is certainly better phrasing, I disagree with the notion that “straight or not straight” is like the examples Trae gives above. The big differences is that unlike leftwardness or locations in cities, sexuality is a spectrum, so binary negation is just not applicable.
My examples work fine in the sense of “strict definition”/”not strict definition” — which is really the whole point. If you want to get into analyzing the need for looking at things as a binary (which is a complicated ball of wax) my “left” example still totally works… with the left/right binary and all.
Anywho, Ruth says what she says because Sarah made a pretty specific declaration a while back.
well damn thats oddly mature of her