So, 5 of my top 10 comments contain something along the lines of "As a lesbian". I'm not sure if this is cool because of acceptance or worrisome because things that contain the word 'lesbian' seem to earn me automatic upvotes, which isn't cool. Although reputation is ultimately unimportant, upvotes do mean something, even if what they mean is only that people approve of what you've said or done. I don't people to like what I say because I prefaced it with the fact that I'm a lesbian. I have also made some posts about feminism. I'm not one of the types of feminists that go "Women should be treated better!" or "Women are superior than men!" I believe that all people should be treated equally, man, woman, gay, straight, the mentally or physically disabled, celebrities, Olympians, politicians, and average Joes. In this regards, those who are gay, like me, those with diseases, those with infirmities, those with difficult upbringings, and all others, regardless of any quirk or their history, should be judged based on what they say and do, for good or for bad. That is not to say that we should turn away from those who have struggled, and ignore what they have been through. If a person has had cancer, and fought it, that is incredible. If a person had parents who did not set a good example for them, but they decided to be a better person themselves, that is incredible. If a person had a drug addiction and is trying to curb it, that is incredible. These things are worthy of support. I'm a lesbian, but that doesn't matter, what matters is what I am doing with my life. That goes for all of us. We all had our experiences, some you may think of as unique, or you may think that you've lived an average life, and that there's nothing special about you. Either way, it's irrelevant. There are things you can do, things you should do, things you are doing, both now and in the future. Those are the things that are important. Those are the things that you should judge others for, and judge yourself based on. ---------------------------------------------------- Now that we've passed my big load of morality, I feel pretty hypocritical in describing myself here. As mentioned above, I'm a lesbian. I'm currently engaged to my girlfriend of 6 years. I'm 5'5", and I'm severely underweight. I won't go into the details on that, because they're not really important. I'm a mechanical engineer, and I work at a fabrication shop. Our bread and butter money comes largely from welding and fabricating random mechanical parts, either as replacements or for special uses. We also have an R&D department, which works via contract to design and build various machines, occasionally government, but usually not. It's not my place to go into more detail on what we do. I'm the head of a small welding/manufacturing crew of 5 people, myself included. I largely am responsible for division of labor and quality checking among us, though I do some welding and cutting myself. It's not easy for me, on account of my lack of size, and subsequent lack of strength. I'm 23 years old. I'm extremely geeky. I watch superhero movies, read some of the comics, play videogames, read wikipedia on random science stuff, read science magazines, I was the president of my high school robotics club, and I participated in science competitions in high school. I make lots of science and engineering posts, and I talk about videogames and comics. I'm absolutely not the most knowledgeable person on any of these subjects, I just try to teach what I know, or at least think I know. I usually try to do some research about claims I make before I post them, but I don't necessarily interpret what I read perfectly, and I'm generally not actually educated on the subject. While I think I'm more accurate than many talk about science things on here, take what I say with a healthy amount of skepticism. If it's something interesting to you, do your own research on it. Oh god how did this wind up so long?
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