Spaulding wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
I don't think you can encourage that. If some dude wants to drag himself up, hey, go for it.
I know I'm not the audience, but you might be. His skin looks pretty good.
And what is it with these younger girls and the eyebrows? It seems like a dark heavy brow is now the thing. Even on a light-haired girl. Maybe especially on a light-haired girl.
Sure, but you strike me as somebody that's always been comfortable with yourself. Do you feel there were as many people trying to find themselves as when you were that age?
I don't know. I guess a lot of kids have conflicted thoughts about their sexuality. I can't say I ever did. Although now that I'm thinking about it, I did have kind of a crush on this kid Richie Pierson when we were about ten or eleven years old. It wasn't really sexual though. I mean, I didn't want to kiss him. I was really in love with a little dark-eyed girl named Sharon O'Brien. I wouldn't call that a particularly sexual thing either, but there was certainly a spark there of what would come a few years down the road. I've always been crazy about Irish girls. There is a courtyard here in Chicago. Down by the river where no one goes. We could be married there in the courtyard. By this old Spanish priest that no one knows.
I will say that the difference back then was that nobody would talk about this stuff. It's got to be hard to be gay. Even now in 2017. I was busting the balls of a couple of gay friends about the very gay places they always go on vacation. One of the guys said they have to be cognizant of where they're going because they aren't welcome everywhere. That really hit home for me. Such a thing had never occurred to me. That's privilege. That's why I think Milo is taking a lot of undeserved heat for what he said. It can't be the same for a gay kid in high school who is probably in the closet as it is for you and me. I can ask you out and you say no and I sulk and get over it. The gay kid doesn't know who he can ask. He may think another kid is gay, maybe they find each other. But maybe that kid is pretending he's not and it gets ugly. That's where the older guy comes in.
Big piece that echoes the spirit of what you were talking about earlier. Seems to be a major loneliness problem:
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