I constantly find myself having verbal diarrhea with no filter. Today I tried encouraging a friend whose three year old son wants to wear dresses every now and then and she is unsure how to feel about it by, gloriously, saying that I think Frank N Furter is incredibly manly and sexy and Kurt Cobain wearing night gowns on stage is amazing and I’m totally into cishet men wearing women’s clothes.
I died as the words came out of my mouth and I will never be able to sleep again.
Whenever I manage to keep myself from saying shit like that I silently applaud myself because it’s really hard and each time I keep my mouth shut is a win for humanity.
I feel you. I’ve gotten better at it, but recently had a much older woman flirting with me at a bar. She led into some story with, “Well, I’m much older than you, but…” to which I casually, mindlessly, obliviously, effortlessly, and to both of our near-instant horror, interjected a supportive-intended, “…obviously…”
I constantly find myself having verbal diarrhea with no filter. Today I tried encouraging a friend whose three year old son wants to wear dresses every now and then and she is unsure how to feel about it by, gloriously, saying that I think Frank N Furter is incredibly manly and sexy and Kurt Cobain wearing night gowns on stage is amazing and I’m totally into cishet men wearing women’s clothes.
I died as the words came out of my mouth and I will never be able to sleep again.
Whenever I manage to keep myself from saying shit like that I silently applaud myself because it’s really hard and each time I keep my mouth shut is a win for humanity.
I feel you. I’ve gotten better at it, but recently had a much older woman flirting with me at a bar. She led into some story with, “Well, I’m much older than you, but…” to which I casually, mindlessly, obliviously, effortlessly, and to both of our near-instant horror, interjected a supportive-intended, “…obviously…”
In real-time now:
Her: “Well, I’m much older than you, but…”
Me: “Obviously.”
She was literally stunned silent. Then me, too.