I was just watching an old Sex and the City rerun–the one where Carrie is freaked out that she’s dating a bisexual (Donovan Leitch) and freaks out even more at a spin-the-bottle game at a loft party where guys are kissing guys and girls are kissing girls! She is finally kissed by Alanis Morrisette and runs off like a scared little bunny (OK, Alanis’ mouth is pretty scary).
For goodness sake, Carrie writes a sex column! Now, maybe it’s because I’m a jaded New York gal with a Past, but I couldn’t help thinking, WTF? Well, I don’t actually think in initials, but you know what I mean.
We have a very broad range of people here–would any of you be shocked in such a situation, or refuse to kiss someone of the same sex (or opposite, if you’re gay), or different race, or whatever, at a friendly spin-the-bottle game?
You are cool.
As for the question: being that I’ve never played spin the bottle, I’d probably try anything. It depends on whom else is playing and if I like them.
I would have no problems kissing anyone, male or female, and I am comfortably hetro.
Now, other people having to kiss me? I’m sure that “shock” is on the low end of the spectrum of words that people would use to describe the feelings that arises. “Terror”, “repulsion”, and “I’d rather lick the seat on the subway” seem somewhat more likely.
I remember being rather put off by Carrie’s behavior in that particular episode (which is really nothing new, as she often makes me want to kick her square in the tuckus). You’re right–she writes a sex column, fer-cryin’-out-loud–you’d think she’d be a little more cool about it.
As for myself being in the same situation, I’d have no problem with it. Although, I’d feel that the others involved would react to me much like how mouthbreather described.
I haven’t seen the show for a year or so but isn’t this eerily like how each episode was framed; Carrie taps out a NYC centric OP question on her laptop … and the shows’ themes unfold ?
Life imitating art; You decide …. ?
Is this where we cut to Scene Two, a lunch-time, girlie tittle-tattle session in a sushi bar where the cast holds food on forks but never eats ?
Fwiw, like you, I’ve been in the city for a *long * time, it’s difficult to not have a Past, and not much fun either.
Eve, you are light-years hipper than “Carrie Bradshaw”. You are deck, while she is fin, and and has always been so, and shows no sign of letting up anytime soon.
I personally think all the characters on Sex and the City are pathetic losers, while you are quite obviously The Hippest Motherfucker In Town.™
Who are the people who would have a problem kissing anyone of either gender during Spin the Bottle? The whole point of the game is to kiss people. It doesn’t matter who you kiss- we always played that whoever got the most kisses wins. Barring open, weeping sores in the mouth area, I have no problem kissing other women.
I never played a kissing game, and never wanted to. Yeah, I’m a fuddy-duddy. Kissing for no reason other than “The bottle is pointed at you” just doesn’t appeal to me. I bestow my smooches based of affection.
But, to answer the OP, the only barrier for me is foul breath. bleech!
And to answer the title, of course you’re hipper than Carrie-the-one-dimensional-whiny-baby-with-too-many-shoes!
I’ve never kissed a girl. (Now I have that damn Jill Sobule song stuck in my head…) I have no desire to kiss a girl. And I don’t think I would ever really play ‘spin the bottle’, because I am kind of freaked out at the prospect of kissing a girl. I don’t think it’s a homophobic thing, hell, I might even like it; I just don’t care to find out.
And so yes, Eve, you are hipper than both Carrie Bradshaw and me, apparently.
I just spend last night watching six episodes of SATC. Why all the Carrie bashing here? It’s unfair to compare her to Eve, of course. No one holds a candle to Eve. (kiss, kiss)
Well, I guess I’d be a little shocked, if only because that’s not how the game was played when I was growing up. You didn’t kiss whatever person the bottle was pointing at; you kissed the person of the opposite sex that was closest to where the bottle pointed.
The last guy I kissed was my Dad. I was seven (I think), and it was a “Good Night” kiss. I don’t think I’d be inclined to kiss another guy, at this point. It doesn’t strike me as funny (at least not when I’m sober), and I don’t see any other reason to do so. What, exactly, is the point? (Sorry, if I’m being dense.)
Sort of a side issue; a lot of guys get turned on by watching two women kiss. Do a lot of women get turned on by watching two guys kiss? I didn’t think so, but maybe I’m wrong.
However, I do think it depends how personally you take snogging. If you only snog those whos pants you want to get into, I can understand being put off by the spin the bottle game.
As to Alanis - I would snog her in a minute - I think she’s funky.
But to answer the other part, no I would not be freaked out. At all. And to answer Davebear’s question since I’m so full of answers, women-yes; men - no. It doesn’t disgust me or bother me to see two men kissing, but it doesn’t turn me on in anyway.
