LifestyleEarly 20s LGBs, how is your social life?

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[–][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