Sunday, 7 October 2007

Being a Stereotype

Perhaps it is too early in the morning to go on rant, but then I really didn’t get a good night’s sleep last night and I’m really not well either. But here goes.

One of my biggest hates is being hit on by guys and, even worse, when they know that I’m gay, but they try their luck anyway. It makes me mad when they imply that ‘what she needs is a good…and she’ll convert to “heterosexual-ism”’. As if that’s possible!

Anyway, that’s what happened to me last night. I had some guy trying to look down my top. I don't think it was that so much, but the way that he was looking at me. It actually really upset me, more than I thought, because I had a nightmare during the night and, thank you very much, I now have a hole in my mouth where I bit my cheek in my sleep. Ouch.

Why do some men have no integrity or show any respect towards women?

I guess I must be the stereotypical man-hating lesbian. I really don’t like men. Well, obviously that doesn’t include all men, because there are some really good ones out there (like J, one of our best friends, and our Dads, etc), but others just make my skin crawl.

6 comments:

Katrina said...

I saw a gay comedian on the gay tv network talking about being hit on by guys. She said, "They always think I need a really big ****. That's it, let's take what I dont' like, and insist your's is BIGGER. That will make me want it..."

Em said...

I have to admit this kind of thing doesn't really bother me too much - possibly because it took me so long so finally come out both to myself and in public, so I had years of fending guys off.

Mind you, I don't actually get out much nowadays so it very rarely happens any more :D

I can see how it could make you feel really uncomfortable..

The Gripes of Wrath said...

I think I'm even worse - I don't even notice being leered at by blokes.. or maybe they don't leer at me. Hmmm.
*checks to see if I have tits*
-Oh, I still do, so they probably do...

Mind you, I don't really notice them in general - I think I've developed bloke-blinkers. And I don't regard the men I work with as men, if that makes any sense at all - they have been "neutered" into the far less bothersome "colleagues". Sometimes my happy oblivion bothers even me...

Rebecca Taunton said...

Thank you everyone for leaving comments on my blog.

Generally I have grown blinkers over the years too, but I couldn't avoid this particular one. I found it particularly annoying/creepy.

I never really see the men I work with as men, except one: I walked into his office one day and found him looking at porn... (work is not the place for that).

Katrina, I like the quote.

John C said...

"What's the difference between a straight guy and a gay guy? About four pints."

Seriously, the corollary that should follow from "all lesbians need a good shagging" would be "all straight blokes need a good arse-pounding". But we never hear that proposal, do we?

Blokes of the bellowing, beer-swilling, football-watching variety are nasty and should be avoided. I've spent my entire life avoiding them and it's always funny, and a little sad, when they think you might find them remotely attractive. It's as close as they get to vanity, I suppose.

Rebecca Taunton said...

Hello John and thank you for visiting my blog.

No I don't think we ever hear that one! I suppose it would be as close as they can get to vanity, either that or perhaps, with that kind of guy, they're overcompensating for brutish ways.