Foreigner

I never knew laundry could be so threatening.

A lot of women don't want to sit on the toilet seat, for fear they'll get dirty or "catch something", so they hover and proceed to pee all over the toilet seat. Also men's toilets usually don't get exposed to menstrual blood and products. I can absolutely believe women's toilets are way more disgusting than men's.

Underwater hockey is also a thing

You're heteroflexible?

This seems to imply that death is the only way we'll ever escape that pile of clean laundry you have yet to put away.

Congrats on coming out and being your true self, that was a very brave thing to do.

Your mother, like many parents, had hopes and dreams about who you would become as a person. She's now being faced with the prospect that those hopes and dreams are dead, that the person she thought you would become is gone. She's going to need to grieve and from what you've written here it seems that process has started. Shock, denial, bargaining, some level of acceptance. I expect anger and depression might show up at some point. It doesn't necessarily happen in sequence and can cycle too. She's going to need some time to process, but what's positive is she's not outright rejecting who you are, there's room for her to grow.

My parents weren't hostile when I came out as gay, but I heard similar things - it's just a phase. Are you sure? Was it something we did? Where did we go wrong? What will your life become? Over time they came to accept it and told my extended family (including my very religious Pentecostal grandmother). Everyone is now very welcoming of my wife and my parents are delighted to be grandparents to our kids. I know it's not the same, but there is hope for things to get better, just keep being authentically you.

Yeah I'm demi and that bit stuck out to me as well. Like, I've no interest in this guy, ripped or otherwise, but like I mentioned above, the left version of him seems more approachable. I can envision a scenario where it's easier to envisage being with a person based on their 'vibe' even without having spoken to them. It's like a foot in the door in a way.

I don't know why but imagining Wolverine in a cosy sweater is sending me

Disclaimer: I'm a lesbian so I don't have a dog in this fight, but I'm not surprised women vote more for the photo on the left. He just seems friendlier and more approachable, someone you would have fun hanging out with, so I guess that anecdotally gives credence to what the author is saying. The photo on the right looks like someone who's a bit too intense, and I say this as someone who is also trying to get somewhat ripped. It's funny because when I'm at the gym almost a lot of times I assume the super ripped dudes working out there are bi or gay, and more often than not I'm right. I know it's judging a book by its cover, but clearly that aesthetic appeals to other guys (who are also into guys).

I refuse to get a phone without a headphone jack. Mostly because I know I'm inevitably going to lose my headphones, forget to charge them, forget them in my trouser pockets that will go in the wash. The latter has happened at least a couple of times with my current headphones and they still work just fine. Try that with your Bluetooth pair and let me know how it goes.

There was a Starbucks trend where they added olive oil to their coffees and it was giving customers the mega liqui-shits. Does that count?

Coffee mixology is also becoming a thing now. I imagine some crazy combos have or might come out of that.

Is it him tweeting or someone posing as him?