It took me ages to figure out why that sight bothered me so much. I left the dance floor and anxiously waited for somebody to walk back to the hostel with. The DJ was great, and so was I - until I saw two girls I was traveling with, girls who, to my knowledge, very much identified as straight, grinding on the dance floor, cheered on by friends and strangers alike. During a night in Vang Vieng, we ended up at a local hotspot. I’d just graduated and was traveling Asia with a group of volunteers doing construction work in developing villages.
Bless the fangirls and their rekindled hopes for a Spiderman/Deadpool rom-com, but personally, I cringed, remembering my first time at a bar.
The Golden Globes clip I played on repeat was Meryl Streep’s lethal political takedown the one I avoided was the infamous kiss between Andrew Garfield and Ryan Reynolds.