Adventures of a College Educated Misfit Part 4

.....On the "Eclectic Personality"....and why it supposedly makes me less straight than other straight people.

And I mean those air quotes with every fiber of my soul. Lets jump right into it, shall we? I'll keep it brief, as it won't take me long to get to my point. A week or so ago, I was approached by an acquaintance via the twitters because he had a burning question to ask me, Being me, of course I thought it was going to be about something that was silly and petty and would piss me off and it was all of these things. The question was something like this; "Have you ever been with another female before?" I was completely taken aback by the question because, well, I had never been asked the question before. The next gut reaction was laughter. I told him no and he followed with "Well, have you ever heard that before? I again replied no to which he responded....get ready for this now..."Well, you do have an eclectic personality."

Pause. Time Out. Flag on the muhfuggin play.

So the basis of you coming to me with this bullshit rumor is that I have an eclectic personality?! I asked my good and trusty friends of many years, Merriam and Webster, to help me out with this next part.

eclectic

adjective

consisting of many things of different sorts <the museum's eclectic collection has everything from a giraffe skeleton to medieval musical instruments>


Got it? Fabulous. Thanks, M and W. Now, while I would define my self as more eccentric than eclectic, I do admit that I have an eclectic set of interests. But the real question is, why would any of these things make me more subject to being attracted to the same sex as opposed to a not so eccentric straight person? Now, don't get me wrong, I love the gays. I have tons of friends who are gay or bisexual and we talk about our sexual exploits the exact same way over a glass of wine with an occasional "He/She ain't shit" thrown in. I believe that they deserve all the same rights and privileges that "traditional" people and couples are afforded. However, this in no way indicates or hints that I may or may not like girls. I am an advocate for the peen. I love it. I'm dying of thirst RIGHT NOW because I moved thousand of miles away from all of my good peen and haven't been in this new place long enough to acquire any. The struggle is real.


I said all of that to say this: Yes, I love art. I love movies, music, theatre, dance, poetry, and books. I love boys. I love boys who love boys and girls who love girls. I love politics. I am a lover of people, things, opinions, rights, and beliefs, but none of these things are justification for you to put me in the could be gay box. As a matter of fact, let's all be more cognitive of the boxes we designate people to.





CJ