This may sound funny or nit picky to some, but I just posted a picture of myself on Facebook (when I read this many years later, I may, you may, not even know or recall what facebook is anymore but anyway I posted a picture of myself polishing my boots, drinking a beer, etc. and said "being a man..".
Thusly and accordingly a few guys posted a "like", and encouraging comments, etc. Anyway, someone from the Bay Area, my home, (though I live in LA, now, but not for long) said, "what has gotten into you? LA has gotten in to you!".... Ok, so this pissed me off... This person is a women, a women I used to work with through my previous life as a non-profit worker. This is the VERY thing that a lot of people (even a lot in the Bay Area itself) cannot stomach. The hypocrisy of judgement! What does it mean to be a man? Does it mean that I can embrace drinking beer? Wearing leather, etc.? Does it mean that women can not do these things as well? or that I believe that they cant?
I know many non-traditional men, (read GAY) that also enjoy this! SO WHY IN THE FUCK DO YOU JUDGE ME FOR ENJOYING IT AS WELL!? Is it an LA thing? NO! And frankly she doesn't even know me that well, so who is she to comment on "who I am"? Why do people in the Bay Area feel the need to TRY to call people's attention to things THEY THINK are at odds with THEIR morals, when in fact it isn't and moreover is just shows their own judgemental attitude? They just don't understand the very things they criticize, just like the people that they judge, just like the very people that they themselves deem uneducated, ignorant, etc... ironic isn't even the word for it... sad, pathetic, shakespearean even. Anyway... I miss the Bay Area with everything that I am... The weather, the outdoors, the food, the community... and MOST of the people... I need to visit...and maybe talk some damn sense into some people from my former life!
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