What's Your Label?

Society has its good points and its bad points. It provides a framework of accepted behaviour and attempts to promote the positives in that framework and punish the negatives. Our societies most glaring weak point, however, is in its black and white judgement, with almost zero tolerance for the multifacted array of different hues of gray in between. Everything and everyone must have a label in the frame.

Several of my favorite blogs lately have either touched on or had comment threads sprouting like a field of weeds about labeling people either Homosexual, Heterosexual, and if you are really lucky, you get the bisexual label. Lets face it. Our society has been ingrained to deplore outright homosexuality. Here's the fun part, and the double standard. A guy can be with a girl 999 times out of a thousand, yet will still pull the Homosexual label if Customer #1000 is the same sex. Girls get the cute break. As long as you fall at least 5% het, its all good. You can do the girl thing 95 times out of 100, and that's just perfect with us. The only thing that bothers us is when you go strictly women. Then we label you bull dykes, man haters, and unfit for society. Let me tell you my read on this. That shit scares us, because we have no control in that situation, and we love to be in control, and Society has ingrained in us that we should be. But even worse than that, if a fem we're interested in is strictly interested in girls, then

We have no chance.

That REALLY pisses us off, more than the control issue, or anything else. Guys, like girls, love the chase. The hunt. The adrenaline rush.

We don't get any of that if you're locked in 100%. It's like deer hunting with a wooden gun. You can chase all you want, pretend its great as long as you can kid yourself, but in the end, when you pull the trigger there's no bang, and you look like an idiot because you're truly shooting blanks, and all your buddies know it.

That little 5% gives us a chance to be the hunter. To prove our manliness. To convince you that guys are the way to go. The other 95% is just all part of the marketing turn on.

Ladies,
You all know that two of you playing is a turn on for most of us. Even flirting with yourselves does it for us. Starts the blood boiling. The imagination running. What you don't know is that, even when you are doing it as a tease, and we KNOW you are just teasing, the second you leaned over and touched the tip of your tongue to her ear, looking right at us when you did it, a flash bulb went off in our head, and suddenly there's a photo with the two of you running around in our heads. Only SURPRISE! We're right there in the picture too!

But I wander. I'm dazzled by the glare of all of those bulbs going off in my brain, and the images that accompany them. It's hard to concentrate, because the images turn into videos, and what are you going to do then? I think that very few of the mass of humanity in this country is 100% homosexual or 100% heterosexual. But take heart, ladies. It's okay for YOU to admit that you fall in between.

So what's your label?

Michael