I have recently affiliated with a group. I've attended about 4 gatherings (from 15-60 in attendance each time) and I am still the only white guy or gal to ever "darken the door." It's a very interesting experience. Anyone have anything comparable going on in their lives.
Try living in my house for a week. Particularly if that week happens to coincide with a certain hormonal cycle's most pivotal period.
I'm getting close with 3 daughters! My youngest are 2 and 4 so life will be hell in a dozen years unless my wife goes into menopause before then.... wait, that might be worse! The Hot Flashes versus the Crying Jags (un homage to MacBeth).
I think the funniest thing I ever read in theonion was that question they ask and get fake responses to, where they ask what they think about a female president, and this one guy says She'll probably menstrate all over some important legislation. So wrong, yet so funny. My apologies to all the ladies, especially Mrs. Valdez she seems cool.
Not right now, but at one time in my life I worked in places where I was one of the few white faces around. I actually kind of liked it, but then again I love to watch and meet people more than anyone I know.
I was a movie once that was pretty interesting. John Travolta was in it as the protagonist who is a white man in a world where black is white and white is black. Anyone remember the name of that movie? Lets see if anyone posts it before I can. Edit: Nope, the name of the movie is White Man's Burden. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114928 Good movie. A real eye opener.
Realilty check: merge my well-known Angry White Male Persona with the Thread Title and with the Thread Content and <b>you</b> will get the Whole Picture...
My life until college. Then whitey took over. I was at Borders over the weekend and saw a book title that grabbed me. Anyway, I have just started it - Honky by Dalton Conley. it is about his youth growing up as a white minority in a black and hispanic neighborhood (he now is a professor at NYU). So far, it is fairly similar...
Man . . When I went to my 1st comic book Convention and my friend didn't show I was one lonely beastie ID Rocket River
Yeah. I was on the underground when the children's march ended in DC. It was me and 500,000 kids on the metro at the same time. Scary. Very scary. I got shoved up against the metro walls and fought for my life. I'm glad I'm not a teacher now.
Growing up, I was usually one of very few white kids on the basketball court at the public park. It was a switch because I'd be a lightning rod for disrespect and racial taunts which I didn't ordinarily get. It didn't help that I didn't have much game. But no one had to watch me play to assume it. More recently, I have cause to regularly visit a gay bookstore (I won't go into the reasons why). There, it is doubly strange because I'm a stealth minority. Only some of the regulars know I'm not actually gay. I apparently have a reputation as some sort of sugar-daddy with those who don't know me but see me often. It is weird because I feel disinclined to speak with anyone I don't know there, though that's probably because I'm stealth (and don't want to deal with come-ons) and not because I'm a minority (and would be excluded from their circles).
haha sugar daddy JV. now you know how some of us feel everyday as "stealth minorities". Sometimes it is more difficult than being an obvious one. Although if you "came out" as straight you wouldn't have to deal with the come-ons (hopefully).
I've often found myself the only white person in a restaurant in various places around Dallas (or even Plano, which seems to have a large Indian population, along with the relatively large Hispanic population as you go further East from my place). But since dining experiences are done mostly alone (or with the person with whom you came), it's not really so much the same as being part of a group in which you're the minority.
I can soooo relate. I have to regularly visit a gay p*rn theatre ( also won't go into reasons why)...and just because I'm there having sex with guys and masturbating to gay p*rn, all these 'gay' guys there assume I'm gay too...it really feels uncomfortable. I apparently have a reputation as giving great...er...sevice, and rather than argue with people and out myself, making everyone uncomfortable, I just go a 'head' with things...It does make the come-ons easier to deal with, I have to say.
Coming out in this context would be a little stand-offish, like I'm afraid of being thought of as 'one of them.' I don't mind carrying the stigma of being gay (it is only part-time, after all), but it does create a bit of a barrier between me and the actual gays because I don't want to be seen as disingenuous. So, the ones I have cause to know understand while those I don't know I just won't talk to. I do see the parallels between that and a gay man in the heterosexual world. MB, lol.
People have often thought I was gay...and the funny thing is, since about 16 I have gotten much more attention from gay men than straight women. That could just be because men are more aggressive, though. Hmmm....
