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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Detroit

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DetroitOtherday · 23/08/2019 19:14

Hello?

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DetroitOnTheMove · 01/04/2020 03:39

I'm going to say bye and send my love guys. I might be ok, I'm not going to hurt myself or anything, just disappear. All my love, I hope everyone stays healthy and safe

All my love, and chipmunks for everyone. X

Oldstyle · 02/04/2020 00:23

Stay safe Detroit - so many of us will be thinking of you. Hoping that somehow you get through this latest catastrophe and return with the blockbuster blog. Take care sister. Flowers

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 02/04/2020 10:21

Detroit, sending you love and strength. You just never know what will turn up or how things will turn out. I'm wishing you well.

R0wantrees · 02/04/2020 12:30

Detroit, LangCleg asked me to pass on her love & good wishes to you. She's no longer here but pops into Spinster from time to time.
Flowers

NotAGirl · 26/04/2020 23:21

Detroit
Just in case you're checking in here wanted to let you know we're thinking of you and hoping all is well

2BthatUnnoticed · 27/04/2020 09:59

Hope you’re okay Detroit, if you still check in here. You’re a poster who left a big impression on me Flowers

DetroitTheTourist · 29/04/2020 17:40

Hello! Well on the good side, ive not got covid19 so far. Bit of a scare will a disturbing chest infection, but it's clearly nothing serious. Also on the plus side I've more tea and chocolate than a girl like me deserves! I'm reading Patti Smith's autobiography, trying to stay sane and alive, and it's warm.

On ths minus side...the spot has a lot of road noise and pollution. My close neighbors don't believe Coronavirus is real, and shoot their guns at fireworks making me jump, and once rather humiliatingly hit the ground taking the Lord's name in vain. They, dear sisters, are assholes. It's not bearable. It's not safe. The older male wanted to play my guitar and was beeping his horn and telling me he didn't have no dang virus and to stop being ridiculous. Or less polite words to that effect.
All the state and National campgrounds are closed. All the private places have standards I can't meet. And one hippy dude demanded to know if I was broad-minded and went on a little about skinny dipping. I've not had a hot shower in over 6 weeks. Shaved my head, got dude wipes, boil water, and do the best I can. I look ridiculous. Gangsta bandana, dark glasses, no hair and a little unkempt.

I'm grouchy, my leg hurts all the time. Getting food is not fun. In fact i have to do that today. Deliveries were stolen ( and retrieved), but living here, and the condition the ups and fed ex is in, the only way is to go to a store now and again.
People deliberately coughing on goods and others is a thing! Can't believe it, sisters. I've a few spare pairs of gloves, and scored aloe vera gel and 99 percent rubbing alcohol. I'm mixing up batches with glycerin and tea tree oil. I'm looking out for vulnerable women who might be able to use a bottle.

I was disgusted to see a strip bar opened up, putting vulnerable women at risk. No dine in fast food, but women are expendable, huh.

I promise to be less grouchy. I'm dreaming of a hot shower, the day when I can get back my nice spots to camp, and hoping noone decides to do target practice with fucking fireworks today. Total pricks.

I decides to look for a dog. If the right one turns up, I could do with a buddy. Might stop the cats pooping where I camp.

How are you all doing? Everyone well?

chilling19 · 29/04/2020 19:06

Hi Detroit, I've not posted on this thread before, but have been following it. You sound like you are making the best of the situation, but I do wish that you could access a hot shower and meal. xxx

DetroitTheTourist · 29/04/2020 19:12

I can cook, I've a great propane burner. It's not not feasible to heat up a lot of water for washing. I promise I don't stink

I clothes wash in buckets, wash my hands a lot, and get a strip down bucket wash every few days.

They closed down public showers, and I will not use shelter facilities, I'll get sick for sure even if they managed to keep it single sex. I'll be ok. Not whining, just missing showers! ...and my hair...

Winesalot · 29/04/2020 19:19

Another newbie to posting on the thread, Detroit. Just to wish you well and that you get some well deserved peace soon. I look forward to hearing about chipmunks again soon.

DetroitTheTourist · 29/04/2020 19:33

I love you lot! I'm such an old grouch right now, no fun at all.

I'm touched anyone cares!

I'm looking for a new spot. This is really awful here. Hopefully it's chipmunks, bunnies, deer and racoons soon. The way things are going this year it will be zombie rabid elk and starving bears, or other such curve balls.

There is also no baseball. My fantasy baseball team summer fun is ruined.

Tell me to go out. I must do it. It's so miserable out there. A kind dear soul gave me a mask, so I'm safer this trip, I'll put a bandana over it so noone gets mad at me having one. 40 miles or so to the shops.

Not much wildlife here. Sheep opposite, a few doves.

Oldstyle · 29/04/2020 19:42

Hello dear Detroit! No baseball, no hair, no showers, virus strip-joints and zombie elk makes lock-down here seem positively idyllic. And Trump makes every other government seem gloriously competent. Wish we could somehow spirit you over to a nice quiet bit of the UK with a full store-cupboard. xxx

DetroitTheTourist · 29/04/2020 19:50

Hello Oldstyle, lovely one!

Virus strip joints made me so mad I had to go cool off. Just how little women mean in a society that won't let you buy non essentials, but allows men to buy access to women's bodies at Eve greater risk to those women than usual is beyond disheartening.

I'm not venturing into built up areas, but wish I could grab a few women and go hand out hand gel and gloves, and stop these men from entering these drive thru strip joints fetishising the virus. Grr grr.grrr.

I've one boot on, darling. Looking in my depleted potato bin might just move me.

Seems like you all are doing better across the pond!

I'm not sure i dare venture my opinion on the Don. He lacks humanity and decency that's for sure. I'm pretending I'm not hearing any of it.

WrathofFaeKIopp · 29/04/2020 20:24

Hi Detroit
Your humanity and your warm connection to other women really shines through.
I truly wish we could have a group hug. We will have to make do with a virtual one instead.
Hope you experience love and kindness around you soon Flowers

ScrimpshawTheSecond · 29/04/2020 21:18

Good to hear from you, Detroit!

Sending you warm wishes and a virtual hot shower from over the pond. Brew

I keep cutting my hair shorter and shorter. Might join you with removing it altogether - seems easier, really.

NotAGirl · 29/04/2020 22:05

So glad to hear from you Detroit I wish we could provide you a shower, food and a place of safety away from men who think they have the right to tell women what to do and how to feel Sad

Thank-you for checking back in with us Flowers

DetroitTheTourist · 29/04/2020 22:25

Ild love a shower. It's chilly with a buzzed head, I veer between love this, so kick ass and oh no I look baaaad. I tried a pixie cut, but found out cutting a pixie on yourself is not so easy....

It's disgusting isn't it how strip clubs are encouraged to open, but shower and camping facilities relied on by the poorest are not. Men's orgasms are essential. It's fucked up.

Battery fixed. No excuse, I gotta go shop. If any of you are in a praying mood....it's not fun right now!

Theflushedzebra · 29/04/2020 22:41

Gangsta bandana, dark glasses, no hair and a little unkempt.

Hey Detroit, that sounds wickedly cool. You're a real survivor Thanks

Can't believe the stuff you're seeing and going through - it sounds crazy. These are strange and scary times. I'll never moan about my mild difficulties of UK lockdown in a Kent village ever again.... keep your chin up love, you're amazing, and I think of you often. Saying a prayer for you tonight Wine

DetroitTheTourist · 29/04/2020 22:51

To be fair fools shooting at fireworks is not unknown, my darling, not even in peaceful times. Makes an awful noise and drunk guys shooting at shit. ...not fun.

I'm now stuck in traffic...no idea why it's stopped.

Lockdown isn't fun anywhere. I'm really worried about you all, the uk looks like it's taking a bit of a hammering. I'm ever so impressed at food boxes, queuing ability, and peacefulness.

And no drive thru strip bars.

Mmm...how long before I go investigate why we stopped!

Missed you all. I don't want to seem like I'm whining. I've been whining a lot.

Theflushedzebra · 29/04/2020 23:03

It is soooo weird in the UK, Detroit - it feels surreal, like we're in a dream.

We've taken a hammering for sure, but so have Italy, Spain, France. I think we're the only country whose Prime Minister went and caught it - but you know, that's Boris Johnson all over... Wink

Stay safe in these crazy times, and no, definitely no strip joints where we are - but reports of prostitutes still working. And we all know there is no hope of social distancing there. Women as expendable entertainment for men - so far, so ordinary Hmm

langclegflavoredbananamush · 30/04/2020 08:03

Hello Detroit, I haven't posted on this thread before but have been following it. I suspect there are many more of us rooting for you than you realize, who don't post here. I'm an ex-pat American, I miss the awesome nature of America so much, but the more news from the states that I hear, the more lucky I feel to be an ex-pat.

If you get some chipmunks again, I recommend rigging some peanuts in the shell on strings and such to watch how incredibly ingenious they are at getting to them...top shelf entertainment. (Wish I had pictures.)

DetroitTheTourist · 30/04/2020 15:34

Hello. I've been introduced to the wonders of father Ted by Oldstyle, so after yesterday's shop I watched craggy island on my phone.

It is not fun out there. Exhibit a, woman coughing on public phone handset. I made a 😲 face and decided i didn't want to mess with her. She looked totally normal. Wtf is wrong with people!
Responded to an advert in Craigslist for a space, only to be told he was not renting camping because of governors orders. Then why fucking advertise! Men. Fucking men. It was more my camping equipment ain't fancy enough and I told him where to go on the skinny-dipping . Besides, trust me, ild scare the dang horses. If any of you are interested in Chad's emails ild happily rant. He can shove his hippy faux free love shit where the sun don't shine.

See this is why I am so antisocial! I actually love people. Except the world is full of Chad's ruining everything.

Also got verbally accosted by some grocery store worker. She didn't recognize me, not a local or regular (I destest that store but they had stuff I needed). I got a full on rant about no traveling or vacationing. I'm not camping for fun. It is my home. I got a bit upset, left my stuff and walked out.

Things are a bit sparse. Supply chain seems broke. No kitchen paper, bathroom tissue was double the usual price. No dried milk (keeping things cold is a real problem). I got a slightly wierd selection of supplies, and got out of dodge. Kept on singing that Bob Dylan's song about Billy they don't like you to be so free. I'm by far not the wierdest person out. Though more pathetic than cool at this point in life.

People are driving wierd. I had someone overtake me on a really dangerous one land each way road, with no overtaking allowed. They almost went head on into a car the other way. I clocked him and slowed down, but he forced the guy on the opposite side off the road and to a standstill. Thank God there was room to pull over. A bit before or after the only way off the road is down a mountain side. People are driving wrecklessly and aggressively. I think everyone is angry about the situation and it's coming out in their driving.

..zebra! I'm so sorry to hear how wierd stuff is for you and yours. It's heartbreaking. The people in charge had intelligence on this in November/December I'm reading. But they let it happen, profits before people every time for these men!The entire political system needs dismantling and starting again. I'm not up for war with China (not got a political bone in my body)! Women need a greater say. Get these insulated pricks out of power, and run countries compassionately. There's no compassion, it's all the profit of the few and the servitude and suffering if the many....in short, keep your chin up too, thinking and praying for you too, zebra. Try not to exhaust yourself!

Hello bananamush! It's all going wrong here, hope you stay safe. If I'm back with chipmunks I'll set that up and take some photos. I'm watching the situation in grants, new Mexico with the mayor threatening rebellion against the state. I fear if he pushes it it might go very wrong. That's the kind of thing I fear the most. We really don't want that kind of disorder spreading. Stay safe!

DetroitTheTourist · 30/04/2020 20:14

...I was thinking about whether i actually really hate men. It's easy shorthand, isn't it...everyone knows what you mean. Ok, so it's not a good look for the PR of the feminist collective, but when we are being raped, murdered, abused, our abusers given access to us against our will, do we really care what men think, or how it looks?

To be frank, I couldn't care less what men as a group think of me.

There are men I like, love, am related to in some way. I hear news of good men, decent sons of mothers. Good husbands.

So I think I'll settle for, I would very much appreciate not having to be forced to deal with men that I don't wish to deal with. Ild settle for abusers stopping hurting, killing and raping my sisters. Ild settle for an uneasy entente. The last straw recently was reading about a woman having her coronavirus symptoms dismissed by male medics as a panic attack. She sadly passed. How can we NOT hate a system that hurts us and our children?

They won't allow us our women only spaces. So perhaps they can all go live on Mars or something. War, and fight, put money and power first. Take their handmaidens with em. Anywhere, just not near me. I just want a space to feel safe in. I don't think it's too much to ask. I'm pretty easy to please, remote, water, some access to sewer or a pit bathroom. I don't even need electric. And I make no apologies for hating the man who destroyed my life and happiness.

I don't hate men in general. I just want to be safe from the society of men as a class, and not have to be subject to a world order that does not benefit me and my sisters.

I have way too much time to think.

Gave myself an ice cream headache minus the ice cream washing in cold water. Must be less lazy, and use up some propane. Brr. At least the weather is nice.

How's the wierdness in the UK?

Winesalot · 30/04/2020 20:35

Sounds like an event, yet not real successful trip into town there Detroit. Chad sounds like a pearl of a man! A charmer. Hopefully you will have less fireworks and shooting tonight.

The store assistant sounds like they are a bit of a loon. I am sure I would have probably downed shopping and left too when confronted like that.

At least you got home safely Detroit. I’d certainly need a strong cup of tea by then. Have a good night and hope the sheep provide some entertainment!

DetroitTheTourist · 02/05/2020 17:13

All is quiet out here. Quiet, cool and rainy.

I'm still looking for a more suitable camping spot. I don't think I'm going to find one. People just keep replying telling me to go into the more built uo areas, that they want someone with more picturesque equipment, or that I need to go home because there's a pandemic. I explain I live like this, I've not been out of the area. This area is my home. They just don't listen or comprehend. The area im in has an outbreak now of covid.

I don't feel safe here. Half considered going into an area with no water, bathroom or electric, very remote. Water has to be driven in. I hear people are not being moved on.

The last thing I'll do willingly is go into a city.

Feeling very down. The weather's rainy and stormy. No campfires allowed here either.