At the end of the day I have no trouble writing anything as long as I get handed a check at the end of the day.

I'm a word whore.

drunkexpatwriter

Hez

Redfox

NTBoulton

ShanghaiLil

Koreanish

I think the ones that really hate women are responding in some way to weird mommy issues.

For me it's jarring when I talk to an otherwise very sane and professional client and they say something horribly misogynistic out of nowhere.

I swear they sometimes do it for the shock value.

drunkexpatwriter

NTBoulton

cassandra

1. Ones who are gay because they love men and dick.

2. Ones who are gay because they hate women and pussy.

And the ones in group two are often really, really creepy.

drunkexpatwriter

cassandra

cassandra

(KIDDING! Remember last time we had a post about him, we learned he can take a joke?)

Hez

BeRightBack

iplaudius

"Hamud, I know it could never work out because you are de gay and I am de lez, but your honest, heartfelt comment kind of makes me want to marry you. ...

I may be de gay and you, de lez, but you're also de-lovely, as in, "It's delightful, it's delicious, it's delectable, it's delirious, It's dilemma, it's de limit, it's deluxe," etc.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

iplaudius

PoBoyNation

"Yep, it's all about passing..."

A few times I've had guys I was dating or going out with tell me I "acted too Jewish."

And, yes, one time a really neat guy said to me, "You don't act gay. You act more Jewish than gay."

(The idea being, I guess, that my personality is some sort of put-on or charade and that, behind close doors, I talk about horse breeding and golf like a normal Gentile.)

And yet it's not as though I routinely force my non-Jewish dates to speak Yiddish or Hebrew. Nor do I pepper my conversation with witty asides about the Talmud.

I'm not interested in "passing," but I'd like to know what those guys wanted. The fact is that their remarks were so offensive and hurtful that I never really went to the trouble of asking them what they meant.

Hamud Ibn Hamud

Jaguares

SeaBassTian

God that book was hard work though...

rantersparadise

Tom Foolery

Am I participating in my own oppression whenever I wave an arm above my head and snap my fingers? Because I do that a lot.

GollyG

GollyG

thegayrecluse

AfroGuapo

Scout

BeRightBack

Cheap Shot

SheWalkedWithAZombie

SheWalkedWithAZombie

rod townsend

Rumpelstilskin

lawyergay

... I had managed to arrive at the conclusion that M. de Charlus looked like a woman: he was one! He belonged to that race of beings, less paradoxical than they appear, whose ideal is manly simply because their temperament is feminine and who in their life resemble in appearance only the rest of men ... Race upon which a curse weighs and which must live amid falsehood and perjury, because it knows the world to regard as a punishable and a scandalous, as an inadmissible thing, its desire, that which constitutes for every human creature the greatest happiness in life ... lovers from whom is always precluded the possibility of that love the hope of which gives them the strength to endure so many risks and so much loneliness, since they fall in love with precisely that type of man who has nothing feminine about him, who is not an invert and consequently cannot love them in return; with the result that their desire would be for ever insatiable did not their money procure for them real men, and their imagination end by making them take for real men the inverts to whom they had prostituted themselves ...

Published 1921. Plus ça change ...

iplaudius

billybobnyc

BeRightBack

IvyIngrate

Nic Fit

MindGrapes

Gregoire

winniemc

Cheap Shot

mathnet

whitekidinflatbush