Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No'

rawg writes "Looks like Yahoo is resetting their 'Marketing Preferences' again. In an email I received from Yahoo today it states, 'Starting January 1, 2004, Yahoo! will begin to send you messages, via email or postal mail, about our own products and services. You can control the types of messages you receive by visiting your Marketing Preferences at any time'. It also states, 'And, as always, you can delete your Yahoo! account altogether at any time, for any reason, by going to the deletion page.' I deleted my Yahoo account a month ago. I guess they are lying, because I'm still getting their SPAM."

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Re:"No"

[slaker]

Yup, this is OT. Fuck you. I modded myself down.

My ex- did that.

We were together 12 years, perfectly happy and one night at a party she had a couple of drinks, kissed another girl and had an orgasm instantly.

She told me, a few days later, that she had never in her life felt lust before that instant, and that much as she loves me, she didn't want to live without that feeling.

How can I blame her for that?

Anyway, the total kick in the ass is that the woman my ex- finally hooked up with looks A LOT like me (overweight, pasty, geeky). I had never met her, but I attended their handfasting ceremony (which is a sort of pagan wedding-like ritual), and everyone was asking how I was related to the, er, bride. The other side effect is that my ex- remains about 95% closeted, so I was the only person from her old life who attended... along with about 20 women who fit every bad stereotype of "butch" you can think of, many of whom were actively hostile to my presence.

My point is, I don't know if women marrying women is something to joke about. The fact that my ex's true sexuality was so deeply buried she was almost 30 before she figured it out is a tragedy in and of itself, but so is the fact that I spent 12 years without ever realizing it either.

Much as I like to talk about porno there's no way I'd find a joke like that funny again. Girls who like girls don't really look like the ones on the internet, or in movies, and almost every coming-out story I've ever heard has involved a heterosexual partner getting hosed emotionally and psychologically. I certainly am.