What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
So... let’s just say my ringing in of the new year was eventful and left me speechless for a bit over 24 hours – maybe I’ll tell the story some time in the near future. We’ll just have to see. For now I'll acknowledge I sometimes feel I have a sign above my head that says “Going through a sexuality crisis? Apply here!” and of course I am the last to know any of this necessary information to make sane, rational decisions. Not a great reason for missing writing yesterday, but after reading today's, you'll probably feel let down anyways!!!
I must say, I was proud of myself though. I did operate with an amazing amount of self-control considering it was New Year’s Eve, she was beautiful, and that midnight kiss lasted about 30 minutes or more and... oh yeah. I wasn't going to tell this story. Some other day. Suffice it to say, I think we might come out of this being just friends with that drunken night, sordid past that I may be the only one who remembers - better for me!!! We'll just have to see. As those of you who have been following me know, I am not looking for any kind of relationship. I am fine with friendships or strictly dating in the straight people definition of the word, ie no promises, no exclusivity, no expectations, just fun when you both have time to do something.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sappho Speaks: 2009 - It’s Just The End Of A Year, No Decade
What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
As with every turn of a new year, and for some who don’t buy into the mathematical formula that a decade does not end until the year ending with the zero ends, there will be lots of those reviews as well. Since I am logical by nature and although I have previously given you guys my arguments about decades, let me give it one more shot on the NON-EVE of the new MILLENNIUM and the NON-EVE of the new DECADE and the ACTUAL EVE of just 2009.
Do we ever start to count anything from zero? We always start 1, 2, 3, ... and the same is true for years so let’s look at the 1st decade of the new millennium. Prince’s song “1999” with its talk about the partying like it is the turn of a new millennium has been the largest obstacle for mathematicians and scientists alike of the last 25 years or so to make any headway in shifting the cultural partying community to start celebrating on the correct days. Now seeing as this shift would also impact major corporations and their businesses, party planners, and whole industries that revolve around the changing of decades, hundreds of years, and the rare millennia as it did in our lifetime, no one is really interested in the easy science behind the truth of how decades and thus millennia work. Therefore, the ”town crier” (in this case a well-versed mathematician) is treated like “chicken little.”
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
As with every turn of a new year, and for some who don’t buy into the mathematical formula that a decade does not end until the year ending with the zero ends, there will be lots of those reviews as well. Since I am logical by nature and although I have previously given you guys my arguments about decades, let me give it one more shot on the NON-EVE of the new MILLENNIUM and the NON-EVE of the new DECADE and the ACTUAL EVE of just 2009.
Do we ever start to count anything from zero? We always start 1, 2, 3, ... and the same is true for years so let’s look at the 1st decade of the new millennium. Prince’s song “1999” with its talk about the partying like it is the turn of a new millennium has been the largest obstacle for mathematicians and scientists alike of the last 25 years or so to make any headway in shifting the cultural partying community to start celebrating on the correct days. Now seeing as this shift would also impact major corporations and their businesses, party planners, and whole industries that revolve around the changing of decades, hundreds of years, and the rare millennia as it did in our lifetime, no one is really interested in the easy science behind the truth of how decades and thus millennia work. Therefore, the ”town crier” (in this case a well-versed mathematician) is treated like “chicken little.”
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sappho Speaks: Has The Term Lipstick Lesbian Lost Its Luster?
What Would Sappho Say?
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
Has the lipstick lesbian turned into a tall tale? That moniker once meant something specific and it seems even the girl with the Carmex is calling herself a lipstick lesbian. It seems to me that this word has outlived it’s usefulness and I’ll tell you why. Words are only as good as their definitions. When I was first introduced to the term lipstick lesbian it meant more than just a “lesbian who wears lipstick”. There was a culture that went behind that term. Wikipedia defines it as a feminine woman exhibiting feminine gender attributes (lipstick, nails, skirts, etc.) who is attracted to other feminine women. I was introduced to this termed by my first girlfriend, Leslie in the mid 80’s. She was 30 and I was 18. She was extremely feminine and worked in high end designer women’s wear, wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of slacks, without stilettos and certainly would not leave the house without make-up on. No one ever believed she was gay and between the two of us we were often harassed at women’s bars as being there for the wrong reason. We ended up going to a lot of gay men’s bars to dance the night away among the gay boys who loved and adored the look of two feminine women together.
Not only did our own community abuse us (ever been asked “do you know this is a gay bar?” or been challenged to prove your gay?), the straight world of men was constantly harassing us with offers of threesomes, money to kiss in front of them, and other annoyances.
Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
Has the lipstick lesbian turned into a tall tale? That moniker once meant something specific and it seems even the girl with the Carmex is calling herself a lipstick lesbian. It seems to me that this word has outlived it’s usefulness and I’ll tell you why. Words are only as good as their definitions. When I was first introduced to the term lipstick lesbian it meant more than just a “lesbian who wears lipstick”. There was a culture that went behind that term. Wikipedia defines it as a feminine woman exhibiting feminine gender attributes (lipstick, nails, skirts, etc.) who is attracted to other feminine women. I was introduced to this termed by my first girlfriend, Leslie in the mid 80’s. She was 30 and I was 18. She was extremely feminine and worked in high end designer women’s wear, wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of slacks, without stilettos and certainly would not leave the house without make-up on. No one ever believed she was gay and between the two of us we were often harassed at women’s bars as being there for the wrong reason. We ended up going to a lot of gay men’s bars to dance the night away among the gay boys who loved and adored the look of two feminine women together.
Not only did our own community abuse us (ever been asked “do you know this is a gay bar?” or been challenged to prove your gay?), the straight world of men was constantly harassing us with offers of threesomes, money to kiss in front of them, and other annoyances.
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