Since starting college, I have become a bit reclusive in many ways. I've become a social media expert, approximately, but I kind of fail at making friends otherwise. I'm getting better, though--little by little.
I have gone through tons of anime and manga in this past semester and a quarter. I am currently caught up on Naruto, Bleach, Fairytail, and Hunter x Hunter (which is really good and would be awesome if it wasnt on semi-permanent hiatus). I am ALMOST caught up on One Piece; I spent the last 2-3 weeks marathoning through the anime/skimming the boring parts of the manga. I got through probably 150 episodes in 2-3 weeks; what is my life? At some point, I need to tackle Fullmetal Alchemist and actually make it through Stein's Gate instead of flaking after the first episode.
Naruto is 621 chapters so far, Bleach 529, Fairytail 321, HunterxHunter stuck at 340 with a couple extra side chapters for a movie that came out recently in Japan. Bakuman was 176 chapters, Death Note 109, M.A.R. 161. One Piece is 699 chapters (I'm at 610 currently). Each of these chapters is going to be at least 15 pages, probably more like 20. So lets do some math. Let's say each chapter is 18 pages long; with Naruto alone, I have made it through approximately 11,178 pages of manga. Adding all of the others together, 621 + 529 + 321 + 342 + 176 + 109 + 161 + 610 = 2,869 chapters of manga. So, 2,869 chapters x 18 pages/chapter = 51,642 pages of manga. What is my life? Granted, I did not read through all of bleach or all of One Piece (I watched big portions of them), but still, that's a ton of manga.
I haven't let my academic life fall off a cliff, either. I had about a 3.8 GPA last semester, and I made all As on the first round of tests for this semester.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Perspective
You are in a room with 99 other people. 50 men, 50 women. If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a (romantic) relationship with ~48 of these. You are straight.
If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a romantic relationship with ~1 of these. You are gay.
If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a romantic relationship with 0 of these. You are asexual.
When straight people complain about having trouble finding relationships, I'm just like, "You're shitting me, right?" How do you think trans people feel? How do you think gay people feel? Of the 250 people around my age I know decently well, probably 12 are gay or bi. Do you know how lonely and discouraging that is? 95% of the people that I might someday be attracted to are PHYSICALLY UNABLE to return that attraction.
Now fast forward in that perspective. How do you determine if you are interested in someone? Typically, you start with looks and move in on the personality or stumble upon the personality, correct? After gender, that is. How do gay people determine if they are interested in someone? Largely the same way. However, they have to go through a lot more people to find someone who might like them back, and even then, the chances aren't the best.
Of a room of 100 people of the opposite sex, how many would you probably initially dismiss based on looks and personality? Let's say you only dismiss 20. So we're left with 80 people. Take the number you have left and divide it by about 40. So for our example where we dismissed 20, we are left with 2. Now divide by 2. That's the percentage of the population that a gay person might be interested in based on typical straight methods of relationship hunting. 1%
Alright I'm tired. I don't know quite what I was trying to do with this post, but basically, the world can look discouraging for LGBT people (Well, maybe not the B people). But you see my point, yes?
Good day.
If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a romantic relationship with ~1 of these. You are gay.
If you play your cards right, you have a shot at a romantic relationship with 0 of these. You are asexual.
When straight people complain about having trouble finding relationships, I'm just like, "You're shitting me, right?" How do you think trans people feel? How do you think gay people feel? Of the 250 people around my age I know decently well, probably 12 are gay or bi. Do you know how lonely and discouraging that is? 95% of the people that I might someday be attracted to are PHYSICALLY UNABLE to return that attraction.
Now fast forward in that perspective. How do you determine if you are interested in someone? Typically, you start with looks and move in on the personality or stumble upon the personality, correct? After gender, that is. How do gay people determine if they are interested in someone? Largely the same way. However, they have to go through a lot more people to find someone who might like them back, and even then, the chances aren't the best.
Of a room of 100 people of the opposite sex, how many would you probably initially dismiss based on looks and personality? Let's say you only dismiss 20. So we're left with 80 people. Take the number you have left and divide it by about 40. So for our example where we dismissed 20, we are left with 2. Now divide by 2. That's the percentage of the population that a gay person might be interested in based on typical straight methods of relationship hunting. 1%
Alright I'm tired. I don't know quite what I was trying to do with this post, but basically, the world can look discouraging for LGBT people (Well, maybe not the B people). But you see my point, yes?
Good day.
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