Especially if you post it all over the Nets.

Yeah Pale, it's a shame that "outing" is still a concept.  You'd think society would have evolved to the point that where someone sticks his dick is his own business as long as the goat consents.

Lurker wrote:

Just bless your heart for being so loving!

Gee, thanks.

Actually, I detest About.com. They get fairly good topics (at least within that category), but whoever's running the show over there always kicks them off with completely lame remarks, as if they just came out yesterday, themselves. It's sorta like Dan Savage on a handful of Quaaludes, one tab of X, and a frontal lobotomy.

Lurker wrote:

I was commenting on the first line of your link. I would never call you Phyllis, or Mary for that matter. I just thought the kid's grandma should mind her own business and let him approach her.

Hard to tell where that was directed, what with the quote an' all. It's also not the first time I've been addressed as "Phyllis" (until our profiles were changed to "It's a mystery!" to protect the innocent...as if there are any). I would agree about Grandmum keeping mum, too. It's one thing when friends and family members think you should come out "for your own good," but I can't think of a single person, gay or straight, who wanted their parents and grandparents in on the nitty-gritty of their sexual proclivities. They also don't have to live your life for you, post-outing. The only thing worse, I suppose, is when she starts trying to get him dates.