This is the one with 1 paragraph updates.
Posted May 22nd, 2010 by Mike Lawson
First off, I bought a Speedo. Don’t judge. I just put it on in the locker room, and prance out to the pool. Nobody has time to see how I’ve inelegantly squished my junk into it. This does, however, call for some serious manscaping. And since I’ve started seeing results at the gym I’m not all embarrassed to be seen in the speedo. The one area that really needs some of my attention tanning. Why are gay men so superficial, btw? (There was a lot of TMI in that paragraph…sorry.)
Since my guest post on SixUntilMe.com, I’ve received a lot of really supportive emails, tweets, comments. Thanks to everyone that read it and sent me support in any form. Additionally, I should mention that I wrote the post soon after we hit splitsville and just posted recently – so I’ve done some serious healing since then. And if you liked the post, you might also like the comments that people posted (at the time of this writing there are 31 comments). The majority of them are supportive, but there’s also a few criticisms of my diabetes v.s. cancer comparison.
I’ve been pretty religious about the my gym routine. Sure there is the obvious benefits…I use less insulin in a day after I’ve run a couple of miles, my energy level is higher, etc. Those are all really great reasons, but the main reason I’ve gone six or seven times a week is to keep up the foursquare mayorship. Since the last time I obsessively blogged about foursquare, I have earned a Photogenic badge for checking in at three locations that have photo booths (?!) and a Bravo Newbie badge when I ate dinner the other night at Fez…which, like Bravo, is clearly gay but straight people don’t always realize it.
My reading has slowed down a bit. I blogged about the bizzaro couple of days where I was starting books and then deciding not to reading them. If I’ve ever made fun of you for starting books and never finishing them, I take it all back. It’s really not something that I do…and it has kind of ruined some of my momentum. But then I found a James Patterson book (so?!) that gave me my mojo back, and I’ll be posting about the 22nd and 23rd book I’ve read this year pretty soon, I’m sure.
I’m listening to a lot of podcasts now. A lot. Like close to a dozen. Since I’ve last updated y’all on my podcast listening, I’ve added The Big Gay News Podcast (daily gay-related news), Democracy Now! (daily political talk show that I used to listen to on Pacifica when I lived in LA), Johnjay and Rich (it’s a cut up version of their local radio show), Jordan, Jesse GO! (nerdy weekly podcast by two straight guys), NPR: Fresh Air (daily interview show), Pod Is My Copilot (weekly shoot-the-shit podcast), Stuff You Should Know (they pick one topic and break it down so even us stupids could understand it), The NerdistThe Q Cast Connection (which is Chris Hardwick’s podcast), (a bunch of homos from Florida sit around and talk). My iPod has basically been turned into a podcast-listening device. Music is for emotional people.
4 Responses to “This is the one with 1 paragraph updates.”
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:15 am
Nothing wrong with liking to look nice! Beginning June 1 though there is a 10% excise tax, levied on the customers, for indoor tanning salons. It’s how their partially funding health care reform. So if you’re gonna go that route, do it before then!
May 26th, 2010 at 11:20 am
It’s not just gay men who are superficial, it’s kind of the American way.
I have to admit, lately it has been getting to me when I hear people saying “why are gay men so this, or so that,” when really most of the problems they are talking about are not unique to gay culture but common to all people.
May 26th, 2010 at 11:34 am
Adam,
Of course it’s not just gays that are superficial. I’ve met plenty of straights that couldn’t look past the surface. But what I’m talking about in this post is more of the gay culture…and how we’re so influenced by fashion, media, porn. More so than straight culture, I believe.
My point is, generally speaking, mainstream gays need to be hot and muscular to be considered attractive. And I’m not being critical of the gay culture here…I’m part of it. Have I ever thought a guy was hot despite his shitty personality? Sure. Have I ever dismissed someone great because their look didn’t meet my requirements? Probably.
And while I’m certain this happens in the straight culture frequently, it seems to be more frequent and blatant in the homo world.
Shocking perhaps, but I’m not a psychologist…yet I’d still venture to say that there is some connection between the prejudices we’ve faced, the discrimination, the intolerance and the way that we do it to one another – emphasizing appearance over personality.
But what do I know?
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May 27th, 2010 at 1:19 pm
There is a whole lot none of us know.
I think you give straight culture too much credit. It is an unfortunate consequence of much of the media and popular culture that leads us to believe that somehow gay culture is more superficial. It is sad because this creates one more marginalization we have to break through and that we falsely believe is unique to gays.
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