The Perfect Age

[talktooloose]

I'm at the perfect age to jay walk. I'm not so young as to be recklessly impetuous and not so old that my form will spontaneously fail.

You may use this as a metaphor if you so desire.

Comments

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

You are also at the age where if some serious accident happened...

I'm not going to finish that sentence. It feels a little morbid, cynical and perhaps rude.

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

God, you young people are so controlled these days. Another guy on my flist asked that we post completely untrue memories of time we spent together, so I wrote about an anime convention where he guarded the door while I sucked off a cosplay kid.

His response? "Have those warts cleared up yet?"

I was über-pissed. What is this deeply self-hating, Protestant streak that is infecting the joyous? I'm even supposed to feel bad about fantasy sex?

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

Controlled?

I dunno about that. I mean, if I was 'controlled', I wouldn't have even started the comment.

Regarding the other guy... I think he was making a tasteless joke, yeah. I don't know, man. Attitudes about sex are so hard to pin down with everyone. I think, culturally, a lot of people don't really realize how certain types of comments can actually be implicitly self-hating or whatever. I don't think a lot of young people today are aware at all of their subconscious and cultural biases. And I think a lot of them feel empowered by their upbringing to be arrogant about their negative sides and refuse to try to change.

I don't know.

That kind of response seems so similar to things I've heard so many straight guys say that I don't think I'd even bat an eye or take the time to be outright pissed. Perhaps slightly annoyed...

I have more to say but it's 2:30 am, and I have a blog post to get out of my system and a bed calling me seductively with the promise of sleep.