Friends of Captain Awkward

Maybe it would help to have separate areas for ballad threads (a choir section? :P) vs the short specific help threads? Might make the longer term threads easier to follow, since you'd know they're about the OP rather than a specific issue. Maybe a short summary in the first ballad post of the major...

An internet equivalent of a Smash Cafe would be bloody amazing. \o/

moo\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/!!!

Hugs' O' Rama?

Hug-a-palooza?

Hug-a-dammerung?

For whom the bell hugs?

Ah. Stopping myself now for the sake of humanity.

That's exactly what I was trying to get at, thank you. :) In case rambling more helps, the way I see it, people who use ~ist language generally fall into one of three groups: 1) those who know but want to use/ don't care about the harmful nuances against others, 2) those unaware of the harmful nuanc...

That really wasn't why I called you rude, Susannah. Do you need clarification?

^that was the exact line I found so deeply problematic as well. Susannah, thank you for providing an example of precisely the kind of snap-judgey behaviour I was wary about. You don't know what I think about ableist language, and that sort of assumption that only a Person-Like-X could possibly hold ...

Huh. I would not personally make the leap from "person used ableist language" to "person has unconsciously betrayed their totes ableist secret thoughts and unconscious values" based on one usage in passing. Over time, yeah sure. But since not everyone has spent time examining the etymology of abilit...

Ah awesome, thanks! :D

Hello, I just noticed there that I could read the introductory posts in the Welcome subforum (among others) even though my phone had logged me out, has it always been like this? And would it be possible to make them invisible to non-users? I'm not sure exactly what the correct terminology is ^^' Tha...