And now I shall remain steadfastly silent about the new man in my life. Thank you, scott, for throwing yourself on your sword for the rest of us queers - you taking a lecture for the team teaches us all a valuable lesson.
{sigh}
(Oh, and if it had been me, I’d have started fellating my partner right then and there - under the covers, while the ex got his stuff. Then again, I have no tact. )
Although I won’t link to it, nor even name the thread, I once posted about getting lucky with a guy I met a bar only a few minutes beforehand. It might be the only thread mentioning gay sex that was not hijacked by a safe-sex warning. It may be rare, but it can happen.
I’m not everywhere and I certainly don’t read every thread around here- quite a few, but not all of them. I never- on my posting honor- saw that this was an issue with this guy. Hell, I didn’t even know who he was prior to this thread (Meaning I didn’t know he was gay).
If anyone deserves an apology, I think it’d be Pundit Lisa. Especially if she wasn’t apart of the previous threads and didn’t realize this was an issue. Nothing about her post (In my opinion) lead me to believe she meant this anything other than what she said it meant. I certainly didn’t see where she was trying to needle him, or say it to be an ass.
If this has been such and issue with him in the past, and simply reading a post like that sends him (And others) into a rage, then maybe it should be. It’d probably stop the massive hijack like the one that happened here.
Or, better yet, maybe he could add a disclaimer in the OP telling people he’s safe and he doesn’t need to hear the speech, if it bothers him so.
Not saying anything, and assuming the others around here will know, simply because they should, is awfully presumptuous and naïve.
How dare you try to dictate what I should or shouldn’t do. Until you’ve walked a day in my…
Hmmm, perhaps another thread. And although he is stunningly gorgeous, no bright light can outshine the splendor that is Boi Toi (who is, happily, coming to visit me for Pride next month).
I agree with this sentiment completely. Personally, I think that Guin should be included in that apology as well. Since when is it fucking wrong to show concern for someone, not to mention for someone who you don’t know. I also agree that if you are going to get so damned worked up of over someone expressing concern, put a fucking disclaimer in your post. Saves everyone the trouble of giving a shit about you. I am gay and found absolutely nothing offensive with anyones words of concern. Then again, unlike gobears assertion, all gay men don’t pick up tricks and bring them home. Perhaps if I was that way, I could find a way to relate to all of this spewed venom and somehow justify it in my own mind due to my past experiences. Being that I don’t choose to live my life that way though, I’ll continue to appreciate when someone expresses concern for me.
CNote, perhaps you should check out gobear’s thread “Gay and AIDS are not synonyms, dammit!” about all of scott’s threads being hijacked by well-meaning safe-sex admonitions. Anything that needed to be said was, methinks, said there.
so, Where is the weirdness? You tried to rouse a man from a coma, then fell asleep together naked, Someone strange to you but known to the fuck buddy barges in, stomps around picks up whatever, your stared at by the chyck and then they leave-
I do take your point. If you’ll notice, in general it is not scott who’s offended – he’s largely amused by it now, but others in his behalf. And it is presumptuous to assume that others have read such threads in the past – but it’s also presumptuous to assume that people don’t know how to behave safely in situations they regularly find themselves in.
I don’t think that the question of being warned about safe sex was (and perhaps is) an issue for scott – but if the next five posts you make anywhere on the board are answered by people saying that they think it’s offensive that you criticized scott for not practicing safe sex, totally off the point of the thread, would you not be offended by someone carrying things to extremes? Now switch the roles, and you may get an idea of how scott and the gay men here must feel about the “You’re gay? Do you practice safe sex?” thing by now.