I think we can all agree bullying is bad and should stop, but I also think people need to be aware of bathrooms and bathtubs...

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/09/news/la-heb-bathroom-injuries-20110609

Especially...

"--Women were more likely to be hurt than men."

Even bathrooms are sexist! Women have it so rough...

I like the way this poster thinks! Give him one of the hookers with all her teeth!

Yippeee!

At my last job, I kept to myself and did my job. Yet my boss and an employee figured out I was gay or bi-sexual after only a month. I'm not a "loud gay" type. I don't tell anybody my sexual orientation unless they ask. I don't make a huge deal about it at all.

When they wanted confirmation I told them yes, I'm bi. Luckily my boss and that employee were very nice people. They treated me just as they always have before they knew.

A few weeks after that, while having a quick smoke with another employee he asked me if I had a girlfriend. I told him I actually had a boyfriend, again, he wasn't an asshole, but he was pretty shocked. Apparently "I don't look like the type" which always makes me laugh when I hear that. What does the "type" look like exactly?

Point being you don't have to be loud about who you're sleeping with. People pick up on things, or you just get asked a simple question. I don't lie about my sexuality so I'm honest about it. I haven't run into anybody that gave me shit for it, but maybe that's because I'm bulky and scary looking :>

As for bullying, I experienced it early on in school, got sick of it, and finally started fighting back with force. Some detentions, suspensions and bruised faces (including mine) later and suddenly I wasn't a target anymore. It didn't have to come to that but it did. Most the people that picked on me were complete losers and drug abusers, and after I graduated I heard stories left and right of them dropping like flies. So no, not all bullies become some rich suit with 5 cars that fucks their plastic wife every night.

They call her Chew-Becca.

Mmm. I prefer my women soft and warm. Like a rug will do. :P

It really does tie the room together.

"I can feel the walls closing in..."

Dat mode of thought. :P

Everyone gives something away loudly, even if they are unaware of it. Especially if they're unaware. That's where the "I didn't tell anyone but they figured it out" comes from (about any topic). Not having the analytical skills to read yourself should lead you to presume others don't as well. Half the fun is finding out which ones those are and what their level is.

Not really, there's a ton of false positives and people that get discriminated on based on conceived sexual identity.

A lot of us are exactly the same as straight people except in that one facet that we don't always express. This sort of blame the victim bullshit is hardly helpful.

That comment you quoted was independent of topics like sexual identity. You can find out all sorts of interesting information about people just by what words and phrases they use or what topics they focus on. In general everyone tells their own story, told through every tiny thing they do. I don't paint things in the victim or oppressor picture. That's too tiny of a worldview for me. There are just people, problems, and how much they care for an actual analysis/answer/solution. :P

In the army a couple of guys were convinced I am gay, simply because I didn't have a girlfriend at a time (and apparently they felt I shouldn't have problem getting one if I was a hetero; hence, I must surely be gay for not having a girlfriend).

I wouldn't have otherwise really cared what they think, but they got some kind of obsession over it. Oh well, we were relocated anyway after a month or two and I didn't see those guys after that.

We have compulsory military service here (for men), and back then being gay was a valid reason to get an exemption from it. Apparently the army didn't want gay people to the ranks, feeling they would make things more complicated in the quarters.and camps.

I don't think that is valid anymore though as nowadays women can join the army too so it would be silly to have any exemptions anymore based on people's sexual orientations.

I see. I wouldn't consider that to be loudly though, most people are completely oblivious to that on a conscious basis. Most people just don't listen and if they do listen they don't hear.
That's a common one. Being a virgin past some point in your 20s is something that gets ascribed to sexual orientation and or gender identity even if it's independent of anything else.

They finally opening things up to gays in the military here a while back and now women are able to apply for anything they want in the military. It's the right thing to do, but I think they lowered some of the standards to do it, which seems questionable.

Here we go:

"Qu'est-ce quoi?

Djaron - vous-êtes une personne, ou c'est un blouff? Dites-donc!

As much I enjoyed doing European university exchange in Paris, I cannot think French primary school is perfect. You wish to say there is no bullying in France, or what's that?

Edit: hopefully made more correct "quoi" in the first sentence. My French is certainly questionable spelling-wise, even if I totally appreciated the chance of having done a university exchange in Paris, learned a lot, and hope the Finnish students continue to do so!"

Hum... where is the above a bit evil, unkind, or whatnot? Do tell me, if you bother, brother.

What did I do there exactly, pray tell - except highlight that you know no French, maybe? Quite a few do not, and some are quite fine. Je la connais que provisoirement, et je ne sois point horrible! Je pense.;-)