A question for the Midwestern fedi friends.

What is a mudd-dobber?

#MidwesternUnitedStates #Midwest #Midwesterners

#Illinois #officials aim to #strengthen #protections as #trans #Midwesterners consider #relocating ahead of a possible second #Trump #term.

With #support from Gov. #JBPritzker, #State #Legislators are now examining #Project2025 and #Trump’s #proposed #policies to #identify any #gaps in existing #state #protections.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Illinois #DemocraticParty #Allies

https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2024/11/11/illinois-lgbtq-protections-trans-midwesterners-pritzker-trump-project-2025

I hear many #Japanese people are feeling #lonely. Come visit the #midwest of the #USA or meet some of us #midwesterners when we visit Japan :)

We are terrifyingly #friendly

These #LGBTQ+ #families have a #message for the #Midwest: ‘#WeLiveHere’

#KatieChiaramonte, is an #Iowa #woman who is #married to a #transgender #woman, and they are one of several #Midwesterners #profiled in the #film, which also visits #Nebraska, #Kansas, #Ohio and #Minnesota.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Iowa #Entertainment #Movies #Documentaries #Representation #Culture

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2023/12/14/these-lgbtq-families-have-a-message-for-the-midwest-we-live-here/

#Queer #midwesterners take centerstage in new #documentary about #loving a #home that #struggles to love you back.

"#WeLiveHere" wants to send the #message that #LGBTQ+ #people are #everywhere and #deserve to be treated like everyone else.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TV #Representation #Culture

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/queer-midwesterners-take-centerstage-in-new-doc-about-loving-a-home-that-struggles-to-love-you-back/

When your 19year old nephew asks you to chaperone him and friends to a bar, because they have video games at said bar... and you tell them that there's a legit #arcade (called "the Arcade").

You're then informed that one of the <21ers parents "don't like them going downtown"

But to a bar with an unknown adult? #WTF? (I don't understand #midwesterners anymore)

A post about #NewYorkCity and #Omaha, NE, both of which have been home to me for nearly an equal amount of time.

I heard this said before, and it rings true to me.

By and large, #NewYorkers are kind but not nice, and #Midwesterners are nice but not kind.*

There are certainly outliers, and I surround myself with them for sure... but this generality applies to so many that I've met. How about you?

*Examples provided upon request.

#Midwest

@mckra1g Now that's the Chicago I remember working downtown over the last 40 years in IT! This is why #midwesterners are tough as nails - when that wind comes off the river at -10F, you gut it out and walk over the bridge at lightspeed.

@mistymorningme Ohio here. It's nice getting acquainted with other #Midwesterners or people displaying #MidwesternNice. I lived a while in #SouthernCalifornia, and definitely missed the small things around here.

As a Chicago native, I've often though my fellow #Midwesterners need a more passive aggressive alternative to #AmITheAsshole. So check out my new #humor piece on where you can see what that would look like! https://medium.com/slackjaw/introducing-aita-for-midwesterners-is-it-understandable-that-im-just-a-little-miffed-3ad809641f4