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Posted: Thursday, February 07, 2008

I ate a packet of jelly beans and now I'm hypo


I just ate a whole packet of "Jelly Belly" jelly beans and now I'm hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo. hypo.

I have nothing to talk about so I will make this brief.



Get it? Brief. Oh lol Nathan. What a funny joke that was.
I know what you're thinking, "Dude, that has got to be the most homoerotic picture you have ever posted on here and.... thank you."
Well, you're welcome. If you look closely you can see the darkness of his uncircumcised penis knob, but if you stare for more than 5 seconds then you are gay.

Such a joke as the one I just said would be common among guys. I think that it would be offensive to a gay person as it is portraying being gay as something that is wrong, using it as a pay out. I feel out of the loop sometimes as to what is offensive and what is not. It is because, in regards to sexual preference I happen to be in the majority (heterosexual). I know what heterosexual men think but I can not fully understand how a gay person would feel about jokes like this. I hate not fully knowing and not having a gay persons perspective on these things. A great south park episode (With Apologies to Jesse Jackson - 1101) touched on this sort of thing. A show about not really knowing what it is like to be Token (black). At the end was the excellent summary which went like this:

Mr. Nelson:
There! Now you all see that I am not limited by my size. [Cartman comes alive again and laughs] I have proven my point! My work here is done! [waddles away. The kids begin to disperse]

Stan:
What was his point?

Kyle:
I have no idea.

Stan:
Dude, I don't get it.

Kyle:
I don't get it either.

Stan:
[comes to a certain realization] Wait a minute. That's it! I don't get it.

Kyle:
...Huh?

Stan:
Don't you see, Kyle?? I don't get it! [smiles, then walks up to Token] Token, I get it now. I don't get it. I've been trying to say that I understand how you feel, but, I'll never understand. I'll never really get how it feels for a black person to have somebody use the N word. I don't get it.

Token:
Now you get it, Stan. [smiles]

Stan:
[smiles] Yeah. I totally don't get it.

Token:
Thanks, dude.

full episode transcript here


This is how I feel sometimes.
Obviously I know what is black and white offensive, rude and anti-gay but the point I am laboriously trying to make is that I (and many heterosexual guys) will never FULLY get what it feels like when an anti-gay joke is made. Education is needed. It is all too easy to become familiar and comfortable with the views, experiences and generalisations that we all experience in our day to day lives. This familiarity can have the effect of making us less aware of the validity of views which oppose our own.
I think that maybe by following these trains of thought I am digging myself into holes and then trying to repair them with band aids (yeah like band aids will repair a hole! whatever....I have faith in your intelligence that you will get my flawed - train of thought - metaphor). I like cashews.

I guess that is one function of tv right? It shows us how to behave, how to think about things. It shows us that some things are "wrong" while other things are "right". It is important. It allows us to step into the shoes of someone different from ourselves. Shows like Neighbours crack me up as whenever I watch it I always think how it is just basically a show which functions to teach people how they should think and behave towards things. Shows like this teach us how to react to certain situations, how to think about say a "relationship consisting of an adult and a minor" for example. You know, the hard, in your face topics.

If you would like more pictures of soft core johnson you can click here, once again, you're welcome.
I naturally picked the most disgusting briefs from my Google image search for the above picture. These briefs are soooo disgusting. I can't believe they are for real.




Hmmmm.. Sara made me (no I didn't) watch Brokeback Mountain last night. Are you feeling me? Are you putting 2 & 2 together? (answer: the above pic and this blogs theme). It was oookay I guess. My favourite bit is at the start(ish) when Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are in the tent for the first time and they are really getting into the moment, animal passion as it were, then Heath Ledger spits into his hand and I guess (they did not show this bit) rubs the spit on his erect penis before entering Jake. Haha, it was so raw and real and in my face. It was so dirty and new and interesting.
One thing I did think about the movie was that maybe they were displaying a prejudiced view of homosexuals. A view that all gay men have bad relationships with their fathers and this is what "turns them gay". I have heard this (non-evidenced based?) "explanation for homosexuality" before which is the reason I even picked up on it in the first place. I think it is unfair because from what I know about people and animals, homosexuality is not a learned behaviour, not a product of environment or upbringing. It is a natural preference. Lots of animals are gay, lots of people are gay, it's normal and natural. Both the main gay characters in the film had bad relationships with their fathers, not just oh they didn't get along with the guy but more than that. Their fathers were both very masculine and expressively anti-gay. While it did make the film more interesting (parental conflicts) I could not help but think it was an unfair generalisation? I don't know. I would love to know what a gay person thinks about this, is it indeed an unfair generalisation?. I am also aware that the film is initially set in the late 60s? which was a time where this sort of anti-gay attitude was more socially accepted and where a more masculine father figure was more standard.

I have thoughts. Sometimes I don't know how to validate or check them for errors. I want facts, I want to know what is true and real. This is one of the reasons I am so interested in science, critical thinking and logical fallacies etc, so I have the tools I need to help me think about things and avoid wrong conclusions/assumptions. Nothing should be taboo or out of the realm of discussion.

I am 25 now so am finding I am less WOWed by pieces of information (that I never knew) less and less these days. This moment when I saw Heath spit into his hand was one such moment. Well, that makes sense. Another such moment happened a month ago when I found out that it is not uncommon for pregnant women, when giving birth to shit themselves in the process. So to prevent this, a lot of woman take laxatives before hand and eat food that will keep them "blocked up" so to speak. How did I not know this I thought to myself when I found this out?


I am no longer hypo anymore. I have a cramp in my arm and I need a coffee. A good time as ever to stop writing.


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Posted by Nathan Kowald @ 8:49 PM

2 Comments:

At Fri Feb 08, 12:00:00 AM, Blogger david santos said...

Hi Nahtann
A beautiful place here!
Excellent post!
Thank you.
have a good day

 
At Fri Feb 08, 12:15:00 AM, Blogger Nathan Kowald said...

Hi David
Thanks a lot for visiting and your kind words.

 

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