can we do flameful confessions, please?

[wysiwyg]

It is Friday, after all.

[TrickyBob]

Those who start the threads have to go first. You have to set the tone for this.

[alzi]

This is tame, but we just started a new budget rule where we only go out to lunch once a week. Like, started Monday.

I'm going out for sushi today even though I went out for Thai yesterday. It's hardddddd.

[shostakovich]

I don't have a flameful, but I do want to know what is happening in your siggy gif, toledo. It's just so... amazing? Weird? Hilarious? Amazaweirlarious?

[Deleted]

I'm really looking forward to getting high tonight, watching some bad TV and maybe eating some cheese fries around 10.

[wysiwyg]

Fine. Mine is ultra flameful.

I threw away my engagement ring. It was broken and I have no special feelings toward it.

[Deleted]

Also, I'm obsessed with picking my kid's nose. That's gross.

[wysiwyg]

Feb 28, 2014 11:49:04 GMT -5 toledo said:

I don't have a confession, but I do want to know what the point of using the term "cisgendered" is.

It is the word most often used to describe being all genders or no gender in particular.

[Deleted]

Feb 28, 2014 11:49:04 GMT -5 toledo said:

I don't have a confession, but I do want to know what the point of using the term "cisgendered" is.

ME, TOO! I had to Google it and I was like, um... so you're a woman who thinks she's a woman? Cool story, bro.

[TrickyBob]

Are you still engaged? Was there a diamond? Did you throw a diamond away? How does your FI feel about this?

So many questions.

[Deleted]

I always volunteer to take DS1 to LAX practice because the place he goes has a bar in it. I sit up there with the other LAX mommies and we drink beer and its the best sports hour I have all week.

[wysiwyg]

Feb 28, 2014 11:51:50 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Are you still engaged? Was there a diamond? Did you throw a diamond away? How does your FI feel about this?

So many questions.

Up in the air. The ring was worth a grand total of 100$, so no diamonds. He was annoyed.

[Deleted]

Ok, this is the definition I just read of cisgender:

You may have heard the word cisgender before, but you may not know what it means. Cisgender is a term used to describe people who, for the most part, identify as the gender they were assigned at birth. For example, if a doctor said “it’s a boy!” when you were born, and you identify as a man, then you could be described as cisgender. In other words, ‘cisgender’ is used to describe people who are not transgender.

So, it just seems to mean you're NOT transgender. Which is most people.

[janegold]

Feb 28, 2014 11:50:35 GMT -5 wysiwyg said:

Feb 28, 2014 11:49:04 GMT -5 toledo said:

I don't have a confession, but I do want to know what the point of using the term "cisgendered" is.

It is the word most often used to describe being all genders or no gender in particular.

Is that different from pangendered? That's the term I've always heard.

[janiejones]

Feb 28, 2014 11:49:04 GMT -5 toledo said:

I don't have a confession, but I do want to know what the point of using the term "cisgendered" is.

There was some holier than though use of that word going on on my Facebook earlier this week. I need to manage my block list a little bit. People exhaust me.

[wysiwyg]

Feb 28, 2014 11:53:36 GMT -5 toledo said:

Feb 28, 2014 11:50:35 GMT -5 wysiwyg said:

It is the word most often used to describe being all genders or no gender in particular.

That's not how I understand it.  I've read that it's when your mental/emotional gender aligns with your physical gender.  I get that it's probably used to reduce the "otherness" of the term transgender.....but I find it odd to keep mentioning as part of one's identity.

That was not how it was explained to me. That being said, I think I've only mentioned it a few times.

[Deleted]

Feb 28, 2014 11:55:35 GMT -5 wysiwyg said:

Feb 28, 2014 11:53:36 GMT -5 toledo said:

That's not how I understand it.  I've read that it's when your mental/emotional gender aligns with your physical gender.  I get that it's probably used to reduce the "otherness" of the term transgender.....but I find it odd to keep mentioning as part of one's identity.

That was not how it was explained to me. That being said, I think I've only mentioned it a few times.

Maybe do your own research then?

I feel like you probably just say it here to get attention.

[wysiwyg]

Feb 28, 2014 11:54:17 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

Ok, this is the definition I just read of cisgender:

You may have heard the word cisgender before, but you may not know what it means. Cisgender is a term used to describe people who, for the most part, identify as the gender they were assigned at birth. For example, if a doctor said “it’s a boy!” when you were born, and you identify as a man, then you could be described as cisgender. In other words, ‘cisgender’ is used to describe people who are not transgender.

So, it just seems to mean you're NOT transgender. Which is most people.

Well Damn! I'm wrong. My Lgbt group always explained it as how I explained earlier.

[gozf]

When I use words, I generally like to know for sure what they mean.

[CurlyQ284]

Feb 28, 2014 11:48:29 GMT -5 @jezebel said:

Also, I'm obsessed with picking my kid's nose. That's gross.

I do this too. He can't go to daycare like that, they will think we are an abnormally boogery family.

[wysiwyg]

Feb 28, 2014 11:58:08 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Feb 28, 2014 11:54:07 GMT -5 wysiwyg said:

Up in the air. The ring was worth a grand total of 100$, so no diamonds. He was annoyed.

Understandably! There is more 'worth' to an engagement ring than the monetary value.

As I have said before, my real engagement "ring" wad the 2K bird he bought well before the ring was even thought of. He proposed with the bird.

[tdk2]

Feb 28, 2014 11:52:52 GMT -5 @sloanpeterson said:

I always volunteer to take DS1 to LAX practice because the place he goes has a bar in it. I sit up there with the other LAX mommies and we drink beer and its the best sports hour I have all week.

That's not flameful, that's brilliant.

[sonrisa]

Let's rachet things back down on the cisgendered thing. She misused a word which she had learned from a source she considered reliable. The meaning she intended is a notable characteristic for the "what are you known for?" thread. At least as distinctive as other characteristics mentioned.

[papie]

I have basically slept all morning every single day this week. I don't know if there is something wrong with me, I vote for I am just a lazy ass.

[obladi]

Feb 28, 2014 12:01:14 GMT -5 wysiwyg said:

Feb 28, 2014 11:58:08 GMT -5 AutumnRose25 said:

Understandably! There is more 'worth' to an engagement ring than the monetary value.

As I have said before, my real engagement "ring" wad the 2K bird he bought well before the ring was even thought of. He proposed with the bird.

An actual bird? Like a pet bird? How unusual.

[Jalapeñomel]

I'm so sick, and it's so frustrating not being able to take anything besides tylenol. And being sick and having a baby is hard.

[cville]

Something about URLs for People magazine articles makes them never work. EVER.

It annoys the hell out of me that people keep posting them anyway. STOP.

[Moe]

I'm reading cisgendered, but all I think of is:



#onetrickpony

[Jalapeñomel]

Feb 28, 2014 12:18:06 GMT -5 Moe said:

I'm reading cisgendered, but all I think of is:



#onetrickpony

This is what I thought too!

[sharknado]

Feb 28, 2014 12:10:24 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

I'm so sick, and it's so frustrating not being able to take anything besides tylenol. And being sick and having a baby is hard.

What? Why?