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walkthroughthefire8 karma

What's the best way to deal with sexual problems (i.e. guilt, feeling "slutty", etc.) caused by a religious upbringing?

walkthroughthefire4 karma

This is how I feel about Americans who know nothing about Canada, even though many of them live very close by. I got stopped in a mall in New York once to see if I wanted to enter a draw and I told them we didn't live there and they said, "Oh, well as long as you live in the US, you're good." I told them we were from Ontario and they said, "So would you like to sign up?" This was less than half an hour from the New York/Ontario border. (They also stopped us three more times that day to ask again.)

I also had someone ask me if Canada was in Montana once. And I've gotten "Where's Ontario? Is that near Toronto?" so many times (once even "Oh, I've never been to Ontario, only Toronto.") And when I explain that it's a province, not a city, and Toronto is in Ontario, they get all confused, like they think the US is the only country separated into areas, like that.

I also did GISHWES one year and my team got mad that I wouldn't go to Vancouver for one of the items on the list. Two of my team members were from Washington and they didn't understand how they could be closer to Vancouver than me if I was in Canada.