Comments on: The 12 Steps http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/ navigating the spaces between in and out Thu, 19 Jan 2012 21:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GG http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-184 GG Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:31:55 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-184 <p>On a lighter note, tag you’re it! Check out the meme </p> On a lighter note, tag you’re it! Check out the meme

]]> By: darkdaughta http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-185 darkdaughta Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:11:29 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-185 <p>Hi,<br /> I forgot to ask if it was okay to link to your blog. I’m not sure where your boundaries lie. It would be as an anonymous fellow blogger whose name is not necessary information…just to be clear.</p> <p>I’m remembering when most of this made real sense for me. Some of it still does. Only the other day I was writing about the anti-aging effects of cunt juice. <img src='http://awakenings.blogsome.com/wp-images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> <p>I think that lesbian community, like any other community of interlocking social circles, has its ups and down, its bright spots and its difficult areas.</p> <p>I wish that someone would have explained that it ain’t all roses and gaydar when I came out as a young dyke, wish they would have explained that sometimes terrible things happen even inside lesbian community.</p> <p>I think that lesbian community would have lasted as long as my love affair with myself as an intelligent, politicized, social, sexual being.</p> <p>All this to say…<br /> I’m happy for you. If you should start noticing “things” don’t let it derail your choice to come out, but don’t for one second believe that coming out is completely predicated on keeping the secrets and letting sleeping dogs lie.</p> <p>sigh… </p> Hi,
I forgot to ask if it was okay to link to your blog. I’m not sure where your boundaries lie. It would be as an anonymous fellow blogger whose name is not necessary information…just to be clear.

I’m remembering when most of this made real sense for me. Some of it still does. Only the other day I was writing about the anti-aging effects of cunt juice. :)

I think that lesbian community, like any other community of interlocking social circles, has its ups and down, its bright spots and its difficult areas.

I wish that someone would have explained that it ain’t all roses and gaydar when I came out as a young dyke, wish they would have explained that sometimes terrible things happen even inside lesbian community.

I think that lesbian community would have lasted as long as my love affair with myself as an intelligent, politicized, social, sexual being.

All this to say…
I’m happy for you. If you should start noticing “things” don’t let it derail your choice to come out, but don’t for one second believe that coming out is completely predicated on keeping the secrets and letting sleeping dogs lie.

sigh…

]]> By: Old Crone http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Old Crone Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:31:37 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-186 <p>I just wandered in and found your blog through someone else’s blog, and oh my….reading that was too much. Since I am just now, in my 40’s starting to figure this out, some of those were too much, especially the music since college…check! </p> I just wandered in and found your blog through someone else’s blog, and oh my….reading that was too much. Since I am just now, in my 40’s starting to figure this out, some of those were too much, especially the music since college…check!

]]> By: Ninotchka http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Ninotchka Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:25:37 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-187 <p>That was a fun read. he he </p> That was a fun read. he he

]]> By: Anna http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Anna Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:41:22 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-188 <p>Upon hearing that I had been listening to Melissa Etheridge, Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco and Tori Amos since college, T looked at me in disbelief and said in a most incredulous voice, “And you didn’t know you were gay?”!</p> <p>Straight chick here who just likes good music! </p> Upon hearing that I had been listening to Melissa Etheridge, Indigo Girls, Ani Difranco and Tori Amos since college, T looked at me in disbelief and said in a most incredulous voice, “And you didn’t know you were gay?”!

Straight chick here who just likes good music!

]]> By: Athena http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Athena Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:07:19 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-189 <p>Those are hilarious!!! I can’t wait to read them to A.</p> <p>And you’re right, to most people, femme = straight. I have a question, though — do/did you get hit on by guys on a regular basis? Because I never, EVER do/did, with the exception of the occasional street drunk. Which is weird, because I consider myself to be femme, even though I’ve always had very short hair (not quite boy-short, but close enough that the occasional elderly female patient will mistake me for a guy, LOL). I never understood why guys so emphatically NEVER chose me… until recently… <img src='http://awakenings.blogsome.com/wp-images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p> <p>Thanks for posting those — I love them!!! </p> Those are hilarious!!! I can’t wait to read them to A.

And you’re right, to most people, femme = straight. I have a question, though — do/did you get hit on by guys on a regular basis? Because I never, EVER do/did, with the exception of the occasional street drunk. Which is weird, because I consider myself to be femme, even though I’ve always had very short hair (not quite boy-short, but close enough that the occasional elderly female patient will mistake me for a guy, LOL). I never understood why guys so emphatically NEVER chose me… until recently… :)

Thanks for posting those — I love them!!!

]]> By: mb http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-190 mb Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:16:25 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-190 <p>wait! my husband thinks tori amos is unbelievably talented and we both put ani up there in songwriting hero status.</p> <p>does that mean we are both lesbians? shit.</p> <p>:-) </p> wait! my husband thinks tori amos is unbelievably talented and we both put ani up there in songwriting hero status.

does that mean we are both lesbians? shit.

:-)

]]> By: green-eyed girl http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-191 green-eyed girl Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:52:33 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-191 <p>I laughed a couple of times while reading this, I love it. Nobody thinks I am a lesbian either but being a femme makes me more difficult to read.<br /> Yeah, the idea of ever having sex with a man again acutally does make me cringe. Men are wonderful, I just don’t want them on top of me. giggle </p> I laughed a couple of times while reading this, I love it. Nobody thinks I am a lesbian either but being a femme makes me more difficult to read.
Yeah, the idea of ever having sex with a man again acutally does make me cringe. Men are wonderful, I just don’t want them on top of me. giggle

]]> By: MLC Mid-Life Clarity http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-194 MLC Mid-Life Clarity Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:33:39 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-194 <p>TAG. Tag, tag, tag, tag!</p> <p>Darlin’ you’re an “IT GIRL”.</p> <p>Mid-Life Clarity </p> TAG. Tag, tag, tag, tag!

Darlin’ you’re an “IT GIRL”.

Mid-Life Clarity

]]> By: jlb http://www.awakeningsblog.com/2008/01/the-12-steps/comment-page-1/#comment-196 jlb Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:34:29 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/01/21/the-12-steps/#comment-196 <p>hmmm…just found your blog and thought i’d say hi (rather than lurk in the shadows)…<br /> from yet another “rsg”<br /> j. </p> hmmm…just found your blog and thought i’d say hi (rather than lurk in the shadows)…
from yet another “rsg”
j.

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