BTW, if any of them bug you about it later, just jump on a lab table and start singing "I Gotta Be Me!" in your best Liza Minelli. That'll shut 'em up, quick.
Hey, you've just struck a note of progress for the cause! Wanna bet at least one or two people there were intrigued but not going to admit it in public? They'll end up thinking about it and then looking for slash. I'm sure of it.
Full marks to you for courage & honesty. These are good things.
Besides, I bet your thing is more fun than their thing, whatever their thing may be.
Don't worry about those kids, if you really did have slash on a deserted island -- they'd all be begging you to share in no time.
Actually, the scary thing is that I'm more disappointed in myself for swearing out loud, because even though I do it quite often on LJ, I try to maintain a clean-cut appearance in RL.
I totally get that *vbg*
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I like it -- "Lex and Clark lead an adrenalined existence, what with so much Sexy and so much Pretty in so much abundance"
I few months back I found out that when people were asking the Boy what I was up too he was telling them I was writing slash, even going so far as to send his RL friends (and mine) links to my stuff on SSA. I was aghast, horrified, vaguely traumatized. I tried to tell him that we didn't talk about that with people offline.
The Boy being as practical as he always is pointed out that I was out of closet on everything else, I might as well be on this too.
But I tell ya, it was easier to introduce my girlfriend to my grandmother than it was to tell friends or coworkers that I spend all my spare time writing angsty fiction about the incredibly true adventures of two boys in love.
It was quite gutsy of you to come out like that. I'm proud of you.
that I spend all my spare time writing angsty fiction about the incredibly true adventures of two boys in love.
Yeah, what is up with that? There's this weird heirarchy - lesbianism is more accepted than queer men, which is more accepted than bisexuals, which is less accepted than porn, which is more accepted than slash. People take it as a given that men watch porn and women read romance novels, and that most men are turned on by two women together, but god forbid a woman watches porn or either sex likes the idea of two men together.
Thanks for your comments, Jacyn. Hope your day is better too.
Ooh, you should write a whole post on that heirarchy! So interesting and so true. Speaking as a porn loving bisexual woman I'm at the bottom of that totem pole! It might be fun to explore the social instituions which allow that hierarchy to keep existing. Or maybe I've just had too much coffee. :)
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BTW, if any of them bug you about it later, just jump on a lab table and start singing "I Gotta Be Me!" in your best Liza Minelli. That'll shut 'em up, quick.
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*happy slashy friends on lj*
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Hey, you've just struck a note of progress for the cause! Wanna bet at least one or two people there were intrigued but not going to admit it in public? They'll end up thinking about it and then looking for slash. I'm sure of it.
Full marks to you for courage & honesty. These are good things.
Besides, I bet your thing is more fun than their thing, whatever their thing may be.
Hang in there!
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Gee, that sounds like me seven months ago.
They'll end up thinking about it and then looking for slash.
Sounds like L did... my influence? *bows*
Full marks to you for courage & honesty. These are good things.
Fajr, you are so good to me. I'm going to write a romantic, schmoopy, and hot Clex just for you.
Besides, I bet your thing is more fun than their thing,
This is what I like to believe.
whatever their thing may be.
Anne of Green Gables, running shoes, cigarettes, photo albums, thesis draft... yeah, I'm thinking mine is more fun.
Hang in there!
You know I am! Thanks for your wonderful comments.
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Ooh, happy day! Yes, please. I can hardly wait.
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Don't worry about those kids, if you really did have slash on a deserted island -- they'd all be begging you to share in no time.
Actually, the scary thing is that I'm more disappointed in myself for swearing out loud, because even though I do it quite often on LJ, I try to maintain a clean-cut appearance in RL.
I totally get that *vbg*
adrenalined
I like it -- "Lex and Clark lead an adrenalined existence, what with so much Sexy and so much Pretty in so much abundance"
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lol. Thanks, that made my day.
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The Boy being as practical as he always is pointed out that I was out of closet on everything else, I might as well be on this too.
But I tell ya, it was easier to introduce my girlfriend to my grandmother than it was to tell friends or coworkers that I spend all my spare time writing angsty fiction about the incredibly true adventures of two boys in love.
It was quite gutsy of you to come out like that. I'm proud of you.
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Yeah, what is up with that? There's this weird heirarchy - lesbianism is more accepted than queer men, which is more accepted than bisexuals, which is less accepted than porn, which is more accepted than slash. People take it as a given that men watch porn and women read romance novels, and that most men are turned on by two women together, but god forbid a woman watches porn or either sex likes the idea of two men together.
Thanks for your comments, Jacyn. Hope your day is better too.
*hugs*
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*grins*
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