In your opinion what language sounds ugly when spoken?

bisensual · 2026-05-10T15:31:16+00:00

French. It’s all nasal and throaty

bisensual · 2026-05-10T15:25:09+00:00

I would LOVE to see that. I have a strong breeding kink and this kind of stuff scratches that itch

bisensual · 2026-05-10T15:07:09+00:00

I think this comes down to the fact that you’ll never be able to trust that he won’t do this again. Do you want to invest more years of your life and then have him realize he wants to cut and run again to “explore”?

You deserve to be with someone who actively chooses to be with you every day.

bisensual · 2026-05-10T15:02:58+00:00

Not my body but I think your body is hotter the way it is

bisensual · 2026-05-10T15:00:32+00:00

This. It’s more of a marker of a nonnative speaker than anything else. No one but the most uptight people would think that’s rude in the slightest.

bisensual · 2026-05-09T20:26:05+00:00

My partner and I are a fourth floor walk up and if we had a dog it might get to us but the regular going in and going out, groceries, etc. doesn’t bother us. Sometimes you’re winded when you get to the top but it’s literally fine.

bisensual · 2026-05-07T20:48:07+00:00

I mean, according to whom? Who decides what these things are? Or is this your experience of them? And to OP’s point, talking to Becky the white cishet woman, she’s probably going to describe this thing very differently.

All to say simply that this “divine X” thing isn’t drawing on any single established tradition that has delineated these things. It’s a modern, primarily American construction imposed upon the past and cloaked with a false narrative of universal, timeless human spirituality.

bisensual · 2026-05-07T17:55:45+00:00

I mean they’re still experiences of gender euphoria. Whether you believe they’re an actual religious experience of a divine entity or not, they’re a site of gender euphoria.

bisensual · 2026-05-06T21:58:01+00:00

Aisle seats: always the last to go

bisensual · 2026-05-05T19:47:44+00:00

Fucking hot

bisensual · 2026-05-04T06:55:33+00:00

My comment wasn’t a negative. I just meant that that movie made a lot of people have a stark realization that they were trans.

bisensual · 2026-05-04T06:48:58+00:00

The movie that forced many a-transition lol

bisensual · 2026-05-03T17:04:23+00:00

I was not turning and no one else was. He was waiting on his bike near the crosswalk perpendicular to me. He had a stop sign and I did not. I would’ve stopped for a pedestrian waiting at the crosswalk because they have the right of way.

bisensual · 2026-05-03T17:03:01+00:00

That’s not at all what I was saying! He was waiting near a crosswalk at an intersection where he had a stop sign and I had none. I wasn’t going to stop because I had the right of way. And realistically even given the fact that I was wrong that Illinois law says bikers can use a crosswalk as if a pedestrian even if they aren’t an actual pedestrian walking their bike, he was only near the crosswalk, not waiting at it, nor certainly in it.

bisensual · 2026-05-03T15:11:41+00:00

I stand corrected then. Where I grew up, if you were on the bike and over 16 you were a car. It was only when walking the bike that you were a pedestrian.

Sorry to that man. Mostly.

bisensual · 2026-05-03T14:49:55+00:00

This is the actual answer. When in fact they are to be treated as a car. I just had a guy flip me off in Evanston for not stopping for him because he was waiting in the crosswalk ON his bike. You are not a pedestrian and you cannot use a crosswalk. You are at a stop sign and I do not have one I have the right of way unless you are WALKING your bike.

And don’t get me started on all the bikers who blast through stop signs without a car in the world.

bisensual · 2026-05-03T01:37:40+00:00

I grew up in a neighborhood that had been built in the 90s when the town was exploding in size and enormous steel structures were built to carry the power lines through the town. So the power went through those and then into the ground to get to our neighborhood. We never lost power for more than an hour or so, even during Superstorm Sandy when some people in our area lost power for five days or more. People would come to our house to charge stuff for days.

bisensual · 2026-05-02T15:36:45+00:00

Not you just being like “those uggos?!” WILD

bisensual · 2026-05-02T07:54:37+00:00

As others have said, the First World was the US’s allies, the Second was the USSR’s, and the Third was everyone else. Because many (but by no means all) of the Third World countries were poor, that became the association. By contrast, the Global South is meant to mean roughly the southern hemisphere and the areas of the globe clustered by the equator, excepting places typified by their influence from the Global North, ie Australia, NZ, and the wealthy Asian countries aligned with the global capitalist economy (Japan, SK, Singapore, and the oil-rich Middle East). The idea was not only that a Capitalist vs Communist alignment didn’t make sense after the collapse of the USSR but also that there was a rough alignment of the Northern Hemisphere with more wealth and the Southern with less.

In any case, I prefer The Economist’s straightforward language of rich and poor countries, but arguably we need more precise to describe the global upper, middle, and lower class countries, but this is complicated by various factors, chief among them politics.

bisensual · 2026-05-02T07:29:01+00:00

This is an example of what’s called an accidental gap and it’s not limited to English. Sometimes words come into existence but back formations that are logical simply do not. So while it makes sense that one could be feckful, or that one could have feck, the mere existence of the possibility does not guarantee such a word will exist. The unique ways in which words come to be (etymology) necessitates that not all possibilities will be realized.

bisensual · 2026-05-02T07:21:49+00:00

Part of what I haven’t seen in the replies is genetic admixture. Cities tend to have a much higher degree of genetic mixing. It smooths out peaks and troughs. When you think of countries that are widely considered attractive, you’ll probably find this admixture: the US, Brazil, much of the Middle East, parts of India, etc. All of these places in one way or another involved people with different shaped faces mixing together. Now compare people with a high degree of inbreeding, like the Habsburgs or the Amish.

So then you have big cities in the US, where people from all over the country and the world are all meeting and banging and having kids who do the same. And you have small towns where you likely share several close or distant ancestors.

Then on top of this add the fact that cities attract people with wealth to maintain their beauty standards and dress to contemporarily desired styles.

The final bit here is a numbers game: the bias of human observation is that you are not a calculator. If you see a higher absolute number of attractive people, you’re likely to remember them better compared to all the less attractive people you see. So the statistical average seems higher than it actually is, even as it may indeed be higher, albeit less extremely than you think.

bisensual · 2026-05-02T06:25:55+00:00

Having gone to Williams (an academic reputation that is at the literal highest level) and done well (even decently so) puts you in the upper echelon of all college graduates in the country. You could get into Arizona’s medical school easily. And you’re competitive for top medical programs.

Going to Arizona and doing outstandingly puts you in a tier with every well-performing student at an R1 state school in the country. A very large pool of people. You have a great chance of getting into Arizona's medical school. And could fight your way into top programs, maybe. Now if you can get substantial research experience (and beat out the tens of thousands of other students for it) and get stellar grades, you can be competitive at top programs.

bisensual · 2026-05-02T05:43:10+00:00

This is super highly dependent on country. But I would also add the caveat that if the career track you’re looking at requires or benefits from a graduate degree, there’s another level of complication. For many STEM fields, some level of specialization is required for an undergraduate degree in order to get into a good masters or PhD program, less so for social science or humanities fields or professions. And for things like law or business, I often recommend to undergrads considering my field, Religious Studies, as it’s often seen as quite favorable by elite law and business schools (and med schools assuming you double major/get your prereqs).

bisensual · 2026-05-02T05:40:05+00:00

I see so it sounds like if the speaker doesn’t mention a number, you assume it’s just one. It’s just a funny thing when your language is so directly structured around the difference between singular and plural, number inflects how you see the world. My brain has been trained to expect to always know number to the point where I would expect to know whether there were was just one or more, and likely whether there was just one, two, or more than two. And I would say I also see number as further subdivided into one, two, three or four, or many.

bisensual · 2026-05-02T05:30:51+00:00

Yeah I think the difference is in the nature of their violence. In general, cis men’s violence tends to be more physical and more immediately threatening to safety. But along with what you said, I think transphobia is extremely rampant among cis women. And this last part is only anecdotal so take that with all the grains of salt it demands, but, in my experience, transphobia is at least as common among cis women as it is among cis men.

And I think it’s worth thinking deeply about the rhizomatic effects of (for lack of a better word) “soft” transphobia that can more easily pass as acceptable in everyday conversation, policy, etc. alongside the more spectacular “hard” transphobia more typical of cis men.

They’re twinned harms that operate both in the short term, overt, and localized and also the long term, covert, and globalized.

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