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June 13, 2004
Something needs explaining
allright, now, supposedly at work i am lead to believe that someone quit because tony and i were mean to her. no one has called me mean for a very long time, in fact, i try my best to show the opposite, i try to be as accomodating as anyone.
however some people (i.e. kelly) just can't take the pressure or something (see previous comments). but yeah, kelly quit.
who knows why. i hope she isn't scared of me or something. because that would be sad. but let me get to the point i wanted to make a long time ago. is there something inborn about gay men that make them more stylish than other people (such as straight men) ? absolutely not. i know a lot of ugly, drug addict, gay men who are going no where with their lives.
so what is it then? well it all goes back to "loosening up" if you would call it that. part of being homosexual means throwing out society's pressure to control desire. most homosexuals might know more about desire (desire appeals to all the senses, it's not just someone's love for another). desire has been controlled for ages. people still refer to eating some really tasty dessert as being "sinful." that's just referring to taste and smell. desire can also be described as a rhythm. dance had originally been structured into such things like a waltz or something else where a man leads.
but then comes jazz, and out of jazz comes elvis. now, remember how elvis was censored? you know, nobody was allowed to see his hip thrusts because they were "sinful" but now it seems so tame that it's boring. no elvis was not gay. but he did know how to let loose of that control of desire. and what did he come up with? a new style of dance that has made it's way to every high school dance. but this has been capitalized on by choreographers. the letting loose of desire to form new art forms (as in dance) has stereotypically become a gay trade.
so has fine dining (as kelly pointed out initially) -- except this has to do with the desire of one's palate and the desire of ones eyes. the arrangement of food is not only appealing to taste and smell but also for the eyes. (i don't really need to tell you this, i know you already know). this too involves a sort of "letting loose" of that control of desire that so many others outside of the queer community have yet to shed.
thus, there are many homosexuals who defy the preconceived notions of desire and have found new styles that appeal to the senses in ways that the non-queer community could not create. queer heterosexuals are also capable of creating styles that appeal to the desire of the senses.
Posted by piep0058 at June 13, 2004 12:21 AM | Homosexuality