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We obtain into tough thoughts encompassing non-monogamy, fictional characters we’d desire about pod, and so much more. Thanks to any or all who submitted questions!
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Drew:
I Became talking to dad of most peopleâ
Christina:
Providing dads into this area!
Drew:
I know â about getting pleased. And dad was like, “Oh, really, do you really believe it is because this is basically the very first relationship that you’ve received into as your self?
Christina:
First, dad, that’s so nice!
Drew:
I’m sure! Very sweet father comment.
Christina:
Go-off, master!
Drew:
And I was like â extremely amusing for you yourself to contact dad king.
Theme song performs
Drew:
Hi, I’m Drew!
Christina:
And I Also’m Christina! And this is a podcast that we forgot the intro to already.
Drew:
That’s okay! It’s been some time.
Christina:
Woohoo, it’s.
Drew:
This is exactly
Hold off, So Is This a Date?
Christina:
Yes, that podcast.
Drew:
I’ll analysis component. This is
Wait, So Is This a night out together?
An Autostraddle podcast about intercourse and online dating as queer people with queer people, hopefully. Just how, just how am we carrying out?
Christina:
No, In my opinion you are crushing it. I think what is actually exciting about that episode is this is actually all of our mailbag event in which we will be taking questions away from you, the listeners. A bunch of you submitted vocals memos and emails, and in addition we have the content material and also the concerns and hopefully the responses, but like, I, I’m not going to say such a thing too insane. Really don’t want to get as well outlandish, you realize?
Drew:
Yeah. We’re questioning with you. Should we â after all, this probably isn’t really individuals basic occurrence, however in case people skipped us, you understand, adding our selves, maybe which is somebody’s favored the main podcast. Therefore I believe we have to introduce ourselves.
Christina:
Yeah, absolutely.
Drew:
Okay, cool. I’ll go first. My name is Drew Gregory. I am an author and a filmmaker and a queer individual. We still determine as a lesbian, but I’ve been utilizing that phrase less, and that’s perhaps something I can unpack on another episode. We nonetheless was a lesbian, but I additionally have always been love, precisely what does that also suggest? You are aware? I am not sure. Labels tend to be amusing, but I’m very certain that I’m a writer. I am quite certain that I am a filmmaker. Uh, how about you?
Christina:
Yeah. Uh, I am Christina Tucker, an author at Autostraddle additionally. Im in addition a queer individual. I started actually utilizing “queer” more once I very first arrived now i take advantage of lesbian maybe equally. I am really, I just kind of usage whatever term seems appropriate, taken from my lips within the moment. And I cannot really think about this way more than that. But that’s a journey we’re all on, frankly.
Drew:
We support that. I do believe that sums up which our company is, that i am want, “i will need review this later on.” And you are love, “I just sort of enjoy what I believe plus don’t must imagine a little more about it.”
Christina:
We rather actually select the phrase that really works perfect for the bit, soâ¦
Drew:
Well, yeah. So as you mentioned, this is all of our mailbag event. Should we simply enter 1st â oh, I additionally want to state before we begin that if you delivered all of us a concern and we also aren’t getting to it, it might be since there happened to be specific things that were like, oh, I want to unpack this on another full event, maybe with a particular visitor who be much more, you understand, perhaps more competent to respond to it. So we truly appreciate the questionsâ
Christina:
All of you delivered a lot of questions, that was cool, but we possibly may not need for you personally to reach every one of those.
Drew:
Yeah. Even so they were all study.
Christina:
But also some of you merely sent united states comments without concerns.
Drew:
And, you are aware, frequently with â if this had been a Q&A before or after a film, it’d be like, cannot praise the person. There is a whole market here, but also for this, really the only audience was Christina and I also and Lauren. And therefore really, compliments, great. Thank you so much a whole lot. Really, good.
Christina:
Exciting to get, certainly certainly my primary meals groups.
Drew:
Thus yeah, why don’t we focus on the first concern. During the sound memo, the person states that they’re semi-closeted, so we’re gonna omit names only to end up being secure right here. And why don’t we tune in to this question.
Anonymous Asker:
Making this from somebody who has no experience with internet dating at all, typically because I’m semi-closeted and living in the largely conservative boonies. Whenever I graduate twelfth grade, i am making this one and so I may have a taste of liberty. And that I’m recognizing that i will be going into the queer matchmaking realm. That is a really generic question, but exactly how would we ask a lady out for the first time without falling into the full on panic attack? As you’re able tell, I’m terrible at speaking with people.
Drew:
This is certainly an age-old, age old concern. Truly.
Christina:
It is actually. We in all honesty think it is why we have actually a podcast.
Drew:
Yeah. I mean, personally i think like we sort of recognize where i’ll choose this, in fact it is like, it is more about recognizing that no-one’s good at this? I am talking about, maybe individuals eventually get proficient at it because you exercise adequate and also you kind of lose the â what exactly is it â the coverage therapy or whatever â but like, truly one of those circumstances in which you just do it and it gets easier. And really, even before I came out â after all, to make clear, I happened to be inquiring women out before I arrived on the scene considering the total being a trans person thing. As soon as In my opinion towards early days of when I remaining my bad small town and moved to university and was truly inquiring people away, I absolutely took an extremely direct approach and extremely was similar, “Hello, would you like to go on a night out together?” And I also believe over time, we relocated far from that somewhat. But we truly nonetheless, we nonetheless think sometimes it’s fantastic to just end up being drive and ask some one away, and you also have an obvious solution. I am talking about, you can also carry out the thing in which you simply begin vague and ask people to go out and you just, you realize, perform a,
Wait, So Is This a Date
online game for some time.
Christina:
Correct. Fingers crossed, I hope that information comes across. I also think in a situation, like for me personally, when I began dating, when I was queer matchmaking, I found myself off university, solution of my personal home town, but I became carrying out many dating via apps hence really does reduce the awkwardness because it’s like, we all know what we should’re right here for. And even though i do believe you will find certainly disadvantages to any dating app, much like anything else in life, i really do think form of eliminating that shield of similar, oh no, how awkward is it likely to be? Like, is it probably going to be like, no, it is, that’s what that is your platform for which you have come to. After which once you, once you improve hangout ask, it can always realize that it really is a night out together because that’s the reason we’re all right here. Vibing.
Drew:
Which is an excellent point.
Christina:
After all, i actually do recognize that it is â like that feeling of love, “Oh no, that is gonna be so embarrassing because i am therefore awkward.” But honestly the occasions I have believed very awkward, frankly, many people are exactly like, that was pleasant. Therefore do not think regarding the awkwardness merely in love, it is awkward and every person dislikes me. People are like, that is awkward, but it is method of cute. And I also do wish to carry on a date with you. A couple of things tends to be genuine. In my opinion that is stunning.
Drew:
Best shown. Yeah. Yeah. I think we’ve got this concept that should you ask some body away, you should be like major leading power Shane-style, and it is like, no, possible ask someone around as an uncomfortable person, and that is a different model of hot, but it is still, it’s still the companies.
Christina:
There are numerous labels of hot.
Drew:
Yeah.
Christina:
Wow. Which Is really stunning.
Drew:
Great. Really, let us proceed to the second concern definitely from Claire from Australian Continent.
Claire:
Hey, i have liked playing you guys from this point in Queensland, Australia, together with a question for every of you in fact. Christina, what’s this non-transferable lip liner you use on an initial big date, and where am I able to buy it? And Drew, your own website is a bit more challenging. How can you understand when to tune in to the hard thoughts that come upwards during a non-monogamous scenario and when to operate through them?
Christina:
Wow. I love that I have a lip and you get tough feelings. I believe that is a very gorgeous. I shall get initially and give you a while to think about the difficult feelings. Generally there’s a couple of versions of a non-transferable lip. As I was at my personal childhood in the old mid-aughts, whenever everyone was merely hooked on using a matte lip stick, I did countless, like, Stila mattes are pretty non-transferable. But here is finished . i am growing older. My personal epidermis is getting drier. I cannot end up being putting on a matte lip such as that rather than having a dried aside lip time. Now we have relocated into a stain, and that’s really chef’s kiss. Trigger it could get only a little must, but nobody actually notices, however look wonderful. At this time a huge lover of Clinique. Their own black colored honey is actually an unbelievable one plus the Knicks lippie powder-puff, many colors, fades beautifully. A fantastic lip spot. Get forward and then make from the times with great lip area. Which is all i would like for everyone really. Now, Drew, talk to me about hard feelings.
Drew:
Heavy emotions in non-monogamous connections. Wow. Yeah. So a fun thing that took place in hiatus that we’ve had thus far is that We have a girlfriend today.
Christina:
She actually is wonderful!
Drew:
Yeah. I am really, really pleased. Im simply, personally i think like each and every day type of discovering new descriptions of just what interactions and really love and intercourse can be, and then have maybe not been this much of an enchanting since I was a student in high-school plus it had been all theoretical. So, i am delighted, want to share that. Im like, fine. But additionally what goes on if you are, you understand, in a relationship which you worry about as opposed to, you are sure that, simply having hookups and fillings and material, is you also are examining in more with your personal limits plus lover’s limits as much as everything speak about. And look, all of this maybe items that I didn’t show. And I merely went to the question and was unclear, but this might be my version of being open when you are want, describing like certain main reasons i may be vague regarding the podcast moving forward, because I do imagine actually it’s important within parasocial connections we have with others exactly who compose or individuals who have podcasts that like, I don’t know, to fairly share these exact things, to share with you like the way I determine my personal limits, particularly as a person who produces and talks about gender really graphically. Anyways, so all of that as a preamble to this concernâ
Christina:
Perspective is actually king. That is what we are always saying.
Drew:
That’s to say that like, What i’m saying is, in ways, like i am, i am during my first union, like as a person that’s open about being non-monogamous and navigating can et cetera. And I think merely talking typically, like every commitment is its own conversation. Along with the people who find themselves in this union, every person brings goals and delivers items that are like beliefs to the relationship, and, makes compromises and has conversations and â or does not, immediately after which which is a version of that. Correct? Therefore I believe it is sorts of an annoying answer, but it’s kind of love, you need to both talk with yourself and talk with your partner or lovers, and decide kind of, you understand, understanding required for you, you know, if you’re an individual who’s monogamous and you begin internet dating someone that’s non-monogamous, is something you may get used to? Are there certain matters that make you comfortable? Can it be convenient obtainable as soon as partner hooks up with some body which you all know and it’s really everyday and it’s any, or can you, is-it convenient if they have other relationships, however they’re perhaps not near you at all? Or as with any these â absolutely so many methods to have non-monogamous interactions. And that I don’t know in case you are inquiring this from the point of view of somebody who’s very free in non-monogamy and is also possibly matchmaking a person that isn’t, or the other way around. But In my opinion which is often a â i will not even state a conflict, it’s just an integral part of being non-monogamous, i do believe, usually the majority of people have different relationships to non-monogamy.
Christina:
Yeah.
Drew:
For me personally, i really could date a person that had several partners. But usually with non-monogamy, my personal ideal would be to big date someone where I’m their particular companion, immediately after which we’re not monogamous. If I were currently somebody, which will ben’t the current circumstance that i am in, where I happened to be internet dating someone that wished to have numerous lovers, i might have to be like, okay, exactly what are my feelings about this individual? Just what are my emotions about this person communicates? Carry out In my opinion that that could be a thing that could work personally? And figure that out. And thus you’ll find connection dynamics I could take in which i am on a single end and where I’m on the other end. And that I genuinely believe that merely goes to show that like, it’s simply when it comes to choosing in the event the person you’re matchmaking â one, if the feelings on their behalf tend to be sufficiently strong enough that it is worth it, in addition to if you are appropriate adequate in your needs it may work, because often you really like someone in addition they like you, or perhaps you really love someone and they really like you, plus it merely doesn’t work on by what the two of you want from a relationship. That is certainly sad, but it is also simply the instance. So if to focus through the hard emotions is always will be situation by instance. And I think additionally it is really influenced by communication designs, because if you’ve got good communication using the person or men and women you are matchmaking, you can function with more than should you battle to speak. So those are my rambling applying for grants this thing that i believe about much.
Christina:
I would like listeners to understand that this is why I have six-minute sound memos from Drew. Though in equity, she’s got perhaps not sent me a six-minute sound memo in a really lifetime.
Drew:
It has been quite a few years.
Christina:
But that’s normally the power. And that I do feel just like i recently spoke one into presence. I can not wait for the after that couple of days.
Drew:
You think it’s because i am in a relationship?
Christina:
I am aware it is.
Drew:
I’m feeling insecure about that now. Yeah. Now I am similar, in the morning I a poor pal since I’m in a relationship?
Christina:
I do believe it is fine and beautiful and great and fantastic. And I also’m nearly clamoring to receive more six-minute voice memos.
Drew:
I will deliver a six-minute vocals memo about my personal relationship. Would that be enjoyable? Would that be a fun thing for you to have?
Christina:
I mean, yes, however it would. You’re my good friend.
Drew:
Thank you. Okay. Progressing.
Christina:
Progressing.
Drew:
Let’s see. This vocals memo is actually from Julia.
Julia:
Hey Received. Hey Christina. Discover my personal question for y’all. Should you might have any fictional queer figure regarding the pod, that would it be and just what matchmaking subject do you really talk about? Many thanks for using these Qs! Bye!
Christina:
That is these an enjoyable question.
Drew:
It is an excellent question. My personal â seriously, and never as incredibly Autostraddle about any of it, but my instinct response was like, i would really like the next season that will be a seat down with every main character of
The L Term.
And just to get like, “What’s incorrect along with you?”
Drew:
Yeah. Okay. So I’ve already been generating a concerted work in my personal head and my authorship, to share with you
The L Word
much less, because i am like, there is really other stuff available and like, its fun we have this common vocabulary, {but also|but additionally|
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