Arthur D. Hlavaty

"Penile persuasion." *giggle*

In re: your first paragraph, I always find that assumption the height of affront. Affronting? Affrontation? Affrontativeness? I love how the damn straights always assume that everything's about them. Wanna wear patchouli? It's about them. Stretching your earlobes? About them. Smooch someone of the same sex? Smooch more than one person at a go? Definitely about them. "Thinking too much"? Oh yeah, that's about them. Changing your religion? About them, and more specifically, about absolutely trying to kill your mother, just kill her!

These people would sleep a lot easier if they realized that the rest of us out here on the margins were just trying to get along as best we could without any interference from the Man. Indeed, most of us are trying as hard as possible not to think of what the Man wants at all. *grump*