Kitepower Australia said...djdojo said...
You don't want to sound dumb
Don't want to offend
So don't call me a ******
Not unless you are a friend (Joe Jackson, Real Men)
I think you are a ******, so is Rowdy, and you are really lovers.
Well Steve, glad to have you as a friend, but be careful what you implicate yourself in, I mean that Movember moustache was suggestive! Maybe Rowdy and I aren't that faggy, just a little more flamboyant than some in our aesthetic sensibilities (though not in the North fluoro clolour scheme way) and quietly appreciate that in each other? Whoops, did I say that or just think it?
As for the rest of the rabble from the jam-packed closet, there's nothing like men sharing photos of women to simultaneously satisfy and yet deny an urge for a homoerotic experience. The pornographic relationship is, in most of its forms, fundamentally a relationship between men that is simply mediated by an always absent woman. The absence of relationship to the woman is at its most visceral when the woman is bodily present. Look at the woman's face in the "blue steel" pic; is she really present in any relationship to the men there?
A lot of men seem to spend a lot of energy and money trying to dispel/prevent any doubts over their red-blooded straightness. If that mode of rigid straightness was anything more than a myth, why would it need to be constantly buttressed (
)? Only an impoverished soul would imagine that the only alternative to repressed, conformist straightness is ineffectual limp-wristedness. Real strength comes from self-acceptance of the whole of one's self, not from denying those aspects that arouse fear and doubt. Those who try desperately to be gay are as trapped as those who try desperately to be straight.
When it comes to gender anxiety, I quote Bob Dylan, "When you got nothin, you got nothin to lose."
. I think you have cracked it Dojo, however I don't think you really realised it. You touched upon it, but did not repeat it. I however will be the torch that elluminates your brilliance so our loyal readers may also be enlightened.
.
