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Last week, Mandypants and I did a late b-day cocktail hour for her at Lime. It was my first time there, a bit chi chi of a place, but with nice, bright decor, and not too crowded. We sat near this other group of people, among them, a lanky Filipino guy in a business suit who loudly went on about some guy who made 1.3 million dollars, and asked one of his companions at one point, “Do you want a string of pearls that’s forty-thousand dollars or forty-five thousand dollars?”
I hate homos like that who bray on loudly like some ass in heat about money. It’s such a transparent attempt to combat the demeaning feelings of homophobia felt throughout our lives by trying to build oneself up as richer, and therefore, greater. It does suck that we as gay people have to deal with the terrible bullshit of homophobia. But it allows us to see the world in a way we probably wouldn’t have if we’d turned out straight.
Being discriminated against shouldn’t make you want to be better than the rest of the world, but to be a better person, and make the world a better place however you can. How can people not get that?
