Opposite. I enjoy short men and looks are really affected by personality, so there's a lot of wiggle room. ;D But dating (and a relationship) is largely talking, so someone who can challenge my way of thinking as opposed to echo.
A head full of thick non-gray hair but low-testosterone or completely bald and high testosterone. (The male dilemma.)
I’m Mongolian race in China. I always worry about my safety. The people in my place is not kind to gay, especially when you have higher social level. Some people are watching you find your bad things(gay is the most bad thing) and you may lose your job in public service area, like officer, professor,lecture,doctor in hospital. If you don’t have a marriage, when you are old enough, you will hear some people around you talk about your privacy very dirty.
So what is the religion like over there? I've seen the pics you've posted of the shrines/temples but don't know what they mean. Is there a codified law/rule against gay people?
For those who are nonreligious, have you shared this with your friends, family, work colleagues, etc? How was the news received?
Or, do you feel there's no need to "come out" to those around you? Are some of you remaining silent on the topic because of the potential harm it might cause in your relationships?
I'm a vocal atheist. I often bring up that there's no god but I'm not a dick about it.
For example, if someone talks about abortion and says something like God disapproves, I point out that I don't believe in God so what would you say to me?
Most of my very best friends are very religious and not a one thinks badly of me. On Facebook, I've made a few dozen "friends" who always post Amens and Praise Jesus blah, blah, blah but they are all respectful of me when they come to discuss what I put on my wall (I often debate stuff on my wall) and I of them.
My family, when I had a family, wished I would go to church. They'd debate me on the issue but my insistence that they were wrong was never disqualifying. Is it where you are?
It's not unusual for the vast majority of people to be wrong about something. I've given a couple of examples of this several months ago. One example of that which will be revealed in the future is a man fraudulently convicted of murder in which I would say 99.9% of people are convinced he is guilty.. because almost all the information they have been given about the case is false. (he was framed). I know who framed him, I can prove he was framed, and the evidence I have to prove he was framed was given to me by the person who basically confessed to the crime to me in several chat sessions. He committed suicide a few months later. The jury were not even told that the man who did it existed. His suicide was never even reported. At the time, I thought the man was a nut, but the things he confided to me turned out to all be 100% true when the trial took place 2.5 years after he told me what really happened.
As for climate change… the climate is always changing in cycles. There have been many ice ages, etc. The rate of change is incredibly slow.. and it's not a result of CO2 emissions but because of other factors. If people want to bitch about something real.. bitch about pollution, overpopulation, and the fact that the oceans are becoming barren wastelands due to pollution and overfishing. Many countries dump their raw sewage and garbage right into the ocean.
Ninety-seven percent of the world’s scientists” say no such thing. There are multiple relevant questions: (1) Has the earth generally warmed since 1800? (An overwhelming majority of scientists assent to this.) (2) Has that warming been caused primarily by human activity? And, if (1) and (2), is anthropogenic global warming a problem so significant that we ought to take action?
A personal account of a single case is hardly a good demonstration that the majority can be wrong. Here we're talking about scientists from across the planet, 97% of them, who say that climate change is real. 97%. How often do you get that much agreement?
The better argument against large numbers of people agreeing is religion. There is no god, there is no afterlife so pretty much 99.9% of the planets 8 billion people are wrong. Were there to be an afterlife than only a very small portion of those people would be right. Either way, the majority is wrong.
The difference is that the majority are not learned people. The average person who doesn't believe in climate change is the layperson commenting on their day to day. The few scientist who remain, well, they might have a point but it doesn't mean they're right. It also doesn't mean that we, as a global people, can't course correct. Look at what India and Pakistan did in planting several million trees. If we continue to do that while decrease carbon emissions the naysayers might be proven right – there is no climate change -- becasue we stopped it.
Whether you belive or not, cleaner air is a boon we can all enjoy.
https://www.thewrap.com/dove-apologizes-racist-soap-ad-turned-black-woman-white/
This is the best article I found because it goes into the history. What do you think, racist or just insensitive?
A couple of years ago a small Chinese company ran an ad in which a black house painter, speckled with white paint, tried to kiss a Chinese woman. She dodges the kiss, pushing him into the laundry machine. He comes out a porcelain white Chinese man. I argued that this wasn't racist because 1) in China there are next to zero black people, 2) so there is no race problem (China isn't obliged to follow Western sensitivity rules because the commercial means something else to a set of Chinese eyes than Western ones).
This Dove ad is different, imo. What do you think?
So what is the solution?
The media doesn't recognize that it's biased. Chris Todd was praised for saying that his reporting is unbiased – and that's a huge load of shit.
There was a law that, I believe, Regan took down in the 80's: The Fairness Doctrine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
In short, the media was required to show both sides of an issue. A new version of this needs to be reinstated to balance out the overtly biased coverage we're all getting.
The problem, you see, is that she DOES actually believe the things she said..
I wonder.
It's easy to misspeak when you're on Twitter (or FB). How many times have you sent an angry email? I think that was just an offhand remark that led to serious repercussions to teach us we must be more mindful about how we speak to one another.
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From a Facebook conversation I've been having.
"How can we agree on funding for public programs when the GOP insists that we don’t have enough money to fund them? How can they seriously believe there’s no money? There is money, we just spend much of it on the US military and tax breaks for corporations and the rich. Now, if we agreed on how much money goes to the Pentagon and tax breaks vs. food stamps and other forms of welfare, we maybe figure out something, BUT…"
That question is too broad. What public program is not getting enough money? It sounds to me like someone is bitching that they are not getting their abortion program funded.
Their abortion program?
I think this refers to Planned Parenthood through a lot of programs are cut.
The US is really not much different that NK in that The Military is the number one in both countries. The US happens to have more wealth, so they can still afford to pay for Social Security, Healthcare (for some), and Veterans. If the US keeps cutting public programs and continues to increase the military, well, that line between the two becomes thinner and thinner.
Here's another similarity: The US has The Highest number of people in prison on the planet and those people work while incarcerated. NK does the same thing.
My personal beef is that education keeps getting cut. Is it really surprised that we're having such problems with SJW's poor thinking skills when we no longer teach them reason, rhetoric, logic? Kids are crammed together in awful conditions to pass tests.
Kim Jung Un is destined to incur the wrath of Godzilla!
I don't have the time to look for it but the English language Chinese newspapers have reported that Beijing has begun to openly talk about what a war would look like and what a NK without Kim in charge would be. This is supposed to send a message to NK. Since Kim wants to remain in power this is all likely bluster.
Over here, they're not taking it seriously.
There are 2 types of conservatives, but in this case I think we're talking about religious conservatives.
I think it's a crock of shit (hypocritical) that they want to have their freedoms, while denying others the same rights. It's the same thing we see with modern liberals. They want to have their right to free speech, while denying it to those they disagree with.
I'm not so sure that religious conservatives are REALLY conservatives. It's possible that they pretend to be conservative only because conservatives are against abortion. It would be interesting to know who they actually vote for.
I think Religious Conservatives (RC) are genuinely conservative in that they want to preserve their idea of what the US is supposed to be based on, Christian Law. Unfortunately, most RCs cherry picks from the bible without any consideration to context. For example, there was no such thing as a gay person in the biblical era, not as we understand it today. Sex was one way to pray to the pagan gods and many of the prohibitions to sex come from prohibitions against worshiping a pagan god, these rituals and their related customs.
Here's a question for you: RCs want to preserve and enforce ancient biblical laws which require us to reinterpret them for our modern times. The Supreme Court has to do with with the Constitution. Do you want more or less of the Justice Scalia brand of literal interpretation?
(Footnote: Trump has already put into the Judiciary 150+ justices, three times Obama, around the country, many take a literal interpretation of the Constitution.)
I eat well: Plenty of fiber, so I'm in and out within two minutes. No time for browsing. ;D
TPBM often daydreams about….
I always look forward, so future.
Picture it, your perfect spouse: They can either be physical perfection and poor or overweight 'n dumpy but filthy rich. Which would you choose?
I love the Satanists. The religious right in the US calls for religious liberty everytime a law is passed that they don't agree with. The Satanists started doing this a few years ago and have been winning. Either no religion can have its art depicted in public spaces or all can, either all religions get a turn to say a prayer during x or none can, etc. Fantastic.
Now they're claiming that a recent ban on abortion violates their religious freedoms.
Thoughts?
Laughing. I get the giggles easily. It's happened before…
That can be sexy too, I mean do we have to be serious all the time while making sex ? Sometimes yes, sometimes it's cool to relax and stuff.
EXACTLY! In those intimate moments, you relax. I'm usually in a good humor and when I'm in that strange position of naked and shy it's easy to smile and laugh. Of course, there are those little accidents like friction farts when you're trying to be serious. ::)
Friends, preferably in a spacious house.
Would you rather be Superman or Batman?
I don't like bottoming as it really hurts me. But I'd say I'm open to be versatile. I prefer topping of course and do it with not so close guys, but if I have a boyfriend or see a big muscled guy I'm ready to take a dick.
:blind: :hug: :hug2: :hump: ::)
Is that a surprise anal?
::) It's called The Kamakazi. :rotfl:
what do people do in host bars exactly?
Well, for example, in Thailand you pay for one of the workers to come sit with you. They tend to be in a thong and show their stuff on stage. You either pay for the company there or you pay to take that company up to one of their rooms for sex.
In Japan, it's similar except it's more common to sit and talk with the guy – or guys -- than go up to their room. The conversation is much better, there's karaoke, the mamasan (owner of the bar) is more involved, there's a much lighter mood. It's hard to explain but it's not seedy at all. One perk, if you know where to look, the Japanese pornographic actors often work for such a host bar. 
Oh, and there are host bars for women, too. And at each host bar, the boys are ranked by how much money they bring in. It's a strange system but it's a kind of competition and how well they work you, the guest, will determine how much that guest spends – so you get really good customer service (and I'm not talking about sex). Many even have the boys pics up ranked in order.
Here's a more famous one. They have bars all over Japan.
http://www.dgdgdg.com/top_all.php
The black band lists all the places. If you use the "boy search" you kind find young men in whichever region you're browsing in only. There are three regions: Kanto, Osaka, Nagoya. There are other such services with KO models, etc. throughout Japan. 
Nothing natural about it. It took years of work and dedication. :bananaw:
TPBM has gotten, or given, a bj while driving.
Meanwhile, is Seoul.
