The Vanguard

Author’s Note@26/6/09: This is the original version of this piece. I did tidy it up and lengthen it, but, ever the sentimentalist, I want to preserve the original text. I might publish the longer version later. Perhaps. If I get around to it.

If SBS is only good for one thing, it’s triggering my brain and making me thing about shit. As well as my awesome LJ friends. Love your work, guys.

What started my thoughts was a friend writing about her sexuality, and mentioning that she thinks she’d be better suited as a gay male. Amongst the comments were a couple of other people airing the same view. This combined with my own gender issues got me thinking about why it is that I hear more and more females expressing this view that they’d rather be gay men.

I’m not offering anything but my opinions and musings here on something I keep seeing all over the net. I’m sure others have attempted to explain this phenomenon in much better ways than I plan to, but that’s not what this is about.

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Sometimes I think I’m just repeating the same thoughts over and over again, that I lack anything insightful or interesting to say. I start countless rants and never finish them; the anger’s gone too soon. A sign of my good temperament? Perhaps, though it does leave me wanting.

A lot of things have been on my mind lately. Politics, as always, has been lulzy and awesome. The state election, however, was almost a disappointment. But the fallout has been interesting to watch, before NSW Labor decided to one-up us.

But that’s a rant for another day. If I finish it, of course.

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