LifestyleEarly 20s LGBs, how is your social life?

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[–]Kai_Decadence 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Unfortunately a lot of my hobbies tend to attract a very woke crowd

Man this is so true it hurts for myself as well. I tend to be into art and video games and oh man is the genderspecial/trans crap popular in these areas. I feel your pain....

[–]INeedSomeTimeAsexual Ally 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Same here and it's what made me actually peak because the amount of genderspecial people was too high for what's believed to be relatively rare. I'm in some circles and one group I'm in features 3 non-binaries, 1 trans person, 2 asexuals (counting myself) and 2 straight people and there is like maybe just 8 of us. It shouldn't be so common to see such people in a such small place. That's why I kinda feel shitty I legit identify as asexual but the truth is I'm not straight or gay no matter how hard I try to convince myself. It just doesn't work.

[–]Kai_Decadence 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh man that sounds hella rough but I can see how that would peak you. Isn't it funny how most seem to be in these more geekier hobbies though, especially in the gaming (Video Games or Table Top), a hobby that encourages imagination? It feels like these people lose grip on reality and think they can actually be whatever. That or they latch onto certain female characters and want to be one or just something lol point is, I notice this quite a bit lol.

And no need to apologize for being asexual. It's very rare but you shouldn't do something you don't want to do.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (12 children)

Same here. I am also an amateur musician. Can't hide from it there either.

And while it's not a hobby, I work in tech, so networking events outside of my current, old-fashioned company are rife with that stuff too.

[–]Kai_Decadence 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

Oh man, it's just inescapable if you're int the creative arts... :( And I'm not surprised to hear that about your tech job, I kept hearing that these genderspecials "trans" are quite rampant in the tech & IT industry, at least from a report I read about what it's like in Silicon Valley, California.

[–]FrostyNugsI'm allergic to nuts[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I have a friend who's a freelance artist, and she often complains to me about how much virtue signaling she has to do on social media just so she doesn't get a bad rep in the woke art crowd. Being an artist of any kind in these times sounds exhausting :(

[–]Constantine 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ugh, this is my life. If I want any money this quarter, I need to play the woke game or I don't eat or pay rent. I love being in a creative field and having a lot of control over my daily life/schedule, but it's a rough time when everyone around you is a total nut job talking about burning Harry Potter books. Which is ironic since growing up all I wanted to do was get away from the hyper-conservatives burning those same books....

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

it's a rough time when everyone around you is a total nut job talking about burning Harry Potter books. Which is ironic since growing up all I wanted to do was get away from the hyper-conservatives burning those same books.

I feel like the religious conservatives and the ultra-woke are basically two sides of the same coin, which is funny because they hate each other so much.

[–]Constantine 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Extremism begets extremism, as they say.

[–]Kai_Decadence 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I kinda feel your friend's pain, I'm a freelance artist as well taking commission work from people within the art scene and while I don't virtue signal, I haven't made my views entirely clear on where I stand with the whole gender crap publicly outside of those who may have been friends on my personal Facebook (who up and ditched me when I came out last year).

I really feel for her, it really is a sucky situation.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Fortunately I'm on the other coast, which is still a lot but nowhere near California levels yet. There is no amount of money that could convince me to move there. I'd rather stay at "uncool" companies with some small semblance of normalcy forever.

[–]Kai_Decadence 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Haha I don't blame you. I'm actually originally from California before I moved to where I am now at 15 and I would say how I want to move back there someday because I liked the weather there but that was like back in 2009 and seeing where it is now, yeah I don't wanna go back lol

[–]uroborosjohnson 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

What region are you in if you feel comfortable disclosing it? I'm also in tech and in a woke city

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Northeast