Re: "if that makes any difference"

Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:

> On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 12:03:40AM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > "Concerned" may be a strong word, but I don't like people thinking I'm
> things
> > I'm not. I'm not gay, so I don't like people to think I'm gay. I find it
> > slightly hard to accept that this should imply I think there's something
> wrong
> > with being gay, female, old, having a job, being Estonian, Italian,
> brown-eyed,
> > ... the list goes on.
> >
>
> It's a question of emphasis, I guess.   I mean, people are unlikely
> to think you're female, old, Estonian, or brown-eyed if you're not any
> of those things, but homosexuality isn't necessarily apparent.  And
> it shouldn't be *so* important that you *not* be mistaken for gay that
> you have to put a bumper sticker on your car that says "I'm not gay".
Well, I've actually been taken for an Italian, based on my looks of all things.
Apparently, there are people who think the stereotypical Italian man is tall
and blue-eyed, with light brown hair. Online I'm taken for American with a
certain regularity, apparently for no reason beyond certain Americans not
grokking that the 'Net can be reached from outside America. People sometimes
assume I'm gay, and I can't really work out why; it's certainly not my fashion
sense.

Possibly relatedly, I've also been accused of having a pathological lack of
homophobia.

I don't have a car, and if I had one I wouldn't put bumper stickers on it.

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