Hiya!
I'm Aidynne (Ai when I'm feeling lazy). I'm just your not-so-average queer GenderQueer person. I use either male or female pronouns depending on my mood. This blog is pretty much going to be me discussing gender, sexuality, their relation to each other and to other social norms, and perhaps some things I find humorous, along with some political and philosophical critique and an occasional vignette about my life as a queer anarchist. I'm also an ex-debater. (Policy, gurl!)
I'm a first year at Williams College in Williamstown, MA, studying some combination of Physics, Mathematics, History, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Questions about Eph-y things are more than welcome; I'll try my best to answer honestly. I am not, contrary to popular belief, an expert on all things Williams - sorry about that! I am, however, a tourguide, so you may just meet me walking backwards around campus.
I'm obsessed with all things vogue and it is my dream to be a member of the Legendary House of Xtravaganza. You will probably see references to these things somewhere on this blog.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Allegedly as covered under the First Amendment under the umbrella of satire in the Constitution.
Kathy Griffin (via conconscorner)
Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are
One in ten. It’s the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay and lesbian film festival in Washington, D.C., each year. It’s the percent popularized by the Kinsey Report as the size of the gay male population. And it’s among the most common figures pointed to in popular culture as an estimate of how many people are gay or lesbian.
What percentage of the population is actually gay or lesbian? A lower one than you might think — and a much, much, much lower one than most Americans believe.
In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or “homosexual,” the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.
Love this show.
Dublin
You see, this is what I love about Ireland.
Most people would look at that rock and say; “gosh, that’s a pretty cool rock, I wonder how it stays up like that?”
No. That is not the right way to do things.
The Irish look at that and say; “I’m going to build a house on that fucker.”
You know, with erosion and all, that’s probably a pretty temporary living situation.
In case you’re a One Direction fan and need the perfect way to spend 20 minutes… well, this is it.
This so much. All the gay jokes.
