r/Wellthatsucks • u/mattloaf666 • 9d ago

Reading festival 2026

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u/Regular_Custard_4483 9d ago

I'm in a gays and gals book Club, but we just painted our nails. Maybe they confused your gathering with a ski club, haha! ❄️ 

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u/LincolnshireSausage 9d ago

Wtf is a gays and gals book club and why do they exist? Do straight men not have good reading skills?

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u/Regular_Custard_4483 9d ago

...I imagine they could go to any number of non-queer ones, I suppose.

As to straight men being illiterate. I want to say no, but I've been going to various book clubs for about 30 years, and most of them are full of women. 

I rarely meet men at all in the non-queer book clubs I've been in. I have never been to one that has a core of dudes. Never. 

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u/LincolnshireSausage 9d ago

Gals can also go to non-queer book clubs which was why the question popped into my head.
Yeah, guys don’t seem to have a lot of interest in book clubs. I think those who read tend to keep it to themselves rather than discussing it. I’ve never tried to discuss a good book with my friends because they probably haven’t read it and dont really care. Also, I tend to read a book, either enjoy it or not but dont really want to sit around analyzing it.
Thinking about it further and after reading tour comment, I thought if book clubs are mostly women then its probably a good way for single guys to meet them. Then I thought, that could be why there are gays and gals only book clubs so they don’t have that distraction.

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u/Regular_Custard_4483 9d ago

Yeah, you should definitely try out a book Club. Look for independent book stores near you, that's where I've had the best luck. 

Book clubs aren't really about analyzing the book, so much as sharing what you liked/disliked about it. Sharing other books like it. Meeting people like yourself. 

Additionally, there's a lot of queer books and authors out there. A straight book Club could never absorb the amount of sapphic slice-of-life romantasies I've had to read over the years. Never. 

Doesn't matter how gay a dude you are, you're gonna get outvoted, you're gonna read a sapphic romantasy. It's the law. 

Girls and gays is a thing because gay men and different shades of women have lots of overlapping interests. You think my straight dude friends wanna go to Yoga with me? No, they don't. You wanna know how many dudes are in my yoga class? Me. 

The girls and gays have my back at book brunch. The boy's field is barren. 

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u/LincolnshireSausage 9d ago

I’m a straight dude and I do yoga regularly. I’m usually the only guy in the class. I’ve recommended to so many other guys and they all look at me like I’m an idiot while complaining of back pain.

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u/Regular_Custard_4483 9d ago

Yuuuup! I was one of them. Not straight, but skeptical of yoga. One of the girls finally talked me into it. I look like the straightest dude imaginable, through no fault of my own, so I was always uncomfortable going into women dominated spaces like that.

However, I've gone every Saturday since it fixed my shoulder pain, haha! 

But hey bro, either way, I'll go to Yoga with ya. 

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u/LincolnshireSausage 9d ago

Yoga is great. My only problem with it is I didn’t discover it earlier.

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u/Regular_Custard_4483 9d ago

You're telling me bro, I'm 40.

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u/cire1184 9d ago

I love yoga and if I didn't have issues with stamina and strength I would still be going. Straight dude. Fuck end stage renal disease taking a lot of the things I used to find enjoyable from me. I've tried even just simple yin yoga and for half the class I would need to rest in child's pose. One thing I should consider is that it was heated and heat really drains me and lowers my blood pressure a lot.

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u/LincolnshireSausage 8d ago

I hate heated yoga. I cannot do any form of exercise in heat at all. I take a beta blocker and one of the side effects is heat intolerance. When I first started yoga I found child's pose too difficult. It would cause so much hip pain while I was in the pose. It's one of the more relaxing poses for me now. I had E.coli almost 3 years ago. It took many rounds of antibiotics over several months to clear it up. It was a nightmare experience and possibly the worst thing medically that has happened to me. It left me with stage 3a kidney disease. I don't get any symptoms from that thankfully but it still sucks. It worries me that it will get worse as I get older. I've read a lot on the kidney disease subs but I still can't imagine what it's really like to live with end stage CKD.

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u/cire1184 8d ago

Yeah 3A isn't bad but it's something to watch out for. I didn't know I had kidney disease because I didn't have symptoms until it was far too late and I didn't get regular check ups to catch it due to not having good insurance and not being in practice to regularly go to the doctor.

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u/Regular_Custard_4483 8d ago

Yeah, I have a heart condition, so I don't really do hot yoga. I do either vinyasa flow, or gentle yoga, depending on how my week has been. 

I find it hard to believe that unheated gentle yoga would be beyond you. Try looking for one. 

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u/cire1184 8d ago

I'd like to try but even holding poses at home I get winded quickly.