Life Style
Please tell me why so many homophobic people refer to my "life style".
I'm offended by this term.
I mean, what the hell do they think I do with my free time?
I am no different than anyone else.
I work my ass off at an unfulfilling job. I pay my bills. I pay my taxes. I do my best to keep my house in order. I try to be a good citizen. I try to be a good neighbor. I worry about the future of the planet. I recycle. I'm usually in bed by 10:00 PM. I give to charity. I help others in need. I just want to have a comforting home. I feed the cat. I visit with the elderly. I go to Mass. I work in my garden. I argue with my spouse. I support high school sports. I just want to have a few good friends who understand and appreciate me. And on the weekend, I watch a film, drink a few beers, and go to bed.
I don't have a "life style".
I have a life.
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7 Responses to “Life Style”
June 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I agree whole heartedly!
June 11th, 2008 at 4:50 am
“Please tell me why so many homophobic people refer to my ‘life style’… I have a life.”
Because they don’t.
June 11th, 2008 at 5:30 am
I’m with you on this too. I have always been a little insulted by this same thing. My life, not style, is almost verbatim the same as you detailed above.
Would that I had a little ’style’ now and then - might shake things up some with much needed excitement!
June 11th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I’m putting that on my to-do list: Getting a life.
Eh, I wouldn’t worry too much about the ignorant folks…
June 11th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Because people like to use simple terms to identify and quantify someone or something. It is easier to lump everyone into lifestyles, so that they can judge them worthy or not.
Just because we cannot procreate naturally, we have a lifestyle. Just because we are different we have a lifestyle. I guess these people are not reading their bibles for spiritual enlightenment.
If people cannot love you for who you are then they are not your friends/or/family. And as brother Brandon says - “If you can’t love me for all of me then Fuck You!”
Jeremy
June 12th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Maybe their issue is w/your non-life style?
Where’s the meth? Where’s the 168 beats per minute music? Where’s the drag?
You’re not keeping up your end of their gay bargain and it scares them that you’re more like them than they’d care to think.
July 1st, 2008 at 12:09 am
You state it perfectly here. I just wish we could get to the place as a society where the things that matter are the things we focus on, instead of the labelling, distinguishing, separating, and judging… y’know, the bullshit we could really benefit from letting go of.
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