pine-needles-underfoot:

here’s a reminder that at age 16 I took an intercultural studies class and we had a really Bad project where we had to ~study another culture~™ and interview someone, and straight ppl were allowed to study gays and transes, so I studied heterosexual cis men and read 5 scholarly books on how heterosexuality has been constructed and its political effects on the military, immigration policy, and neuroscience, + 2 nonfiction memoirs abt gays in the 40s that had stuff abt ‘trade’ and those concepts changing, and then i put together this paper abt how straight boys have a vague culture based on the negation of homosexuality and a constructed het past and interviewed a straight boy who thought he was cool and down and who I never spoke to again, and I would like to emphasize that the prof Hated me but I fulfilled all the requirements of the project and got a 4.0 in the class