What did you do to celebrate? Mrs. G and I went to a "festival for gods and goddesses" at the Arboretum last night. What an "eclectic" bunch! I'm not there 30 seconds and I stroll by this lady hunched over playing a harp. I love the harp so I stopped and ran into a friend and we chatted while we listened. When the music died, the harpist stood up and called out in a manly voice, "Brian, get me a bottle of water." Brian, who appeared to be a son, hustled over with a bottle of water. As the harpist stood, I noticed the hairy arms, but she (?) had on pumps and a sweet little summer dress. And people make fun of folks with traditional religious views and values?
When they post bizarrely judgmental and paranoid rants like this, yes. How does body hair have anything to do at all with religion? How about the people in the bible who had all kind of strange beards and body hair and whatnot? Do you think that Mary had a bikini wax before giving birth to Jesus?
1. You should have been there. 2. The observation of body hair was just a phase in the revelation that this guy was cross-dressing. I had a huge crush on a girl in high school with hairy arms, I'll have you know.
That's what I thought. The whole point of the thread is some kind of homophobic cry for the good old days. A man in a dress! Yucky!
Well I'm just dense, so I apologize for the tone of my response. I still don't agree with your position in theory, but when you explain it to the morons like me I understand it as a much more common reaction. So sorry. I am always amused when I see some guy who is so clearly not going to fool anybody when they are cross dressing -- guys with like two days of stuble, a mustache, and a big construction worker sized body. They just look silly. Since I think the statistics still show that most transvestites aren't homosexual, is that really homophobic? Shouldn't it be transvesticaphobic or something like that?
This event seemed to have 4-6,000 people milling about. It was one of the strangest concoctions of humans assembled I've ever seen-- and this is a conservative southern community.
giddyup's code speak about traditional religious values threw me a little and the implication there was, I think, homophobic, but I could have put that better.
