It’s disconcerting I have to say this, that I even have to emphasize it in caps. But, I am straight. When I was a kid, I was frequently called “son” or “little boy”, but duh! I made my mother cut my hair like my brother’s and dad’s. And I wore my brother’s hand-me-downs. If you saw a 6-year-old towhead sporting a bowl-cut, wearing a flannel shirt and faded blue Toughskins, you’d be justified to think “boy”.
I totally could've gone either way in first grade.
But I’m 40 and have a long, well-established history of being straight. I’m married. To a man. I own impractical shoes. So, it baffles me why anyone would type “big ol’ homo” and find themselves on my blog.
Seriously? That got you HERE?
Now I’m all self-conscious that my blog is projecting a homosexual vibe. Like, maybe I should decorate it with a bunch of flowers and pictures of men without shirts. God, I need to beard my blog. Maybe my blog is just in one of those strange experimental phases. Give it time, it’ll come around.
Ha.
Who cares, though? I mean, I know you’re being funny and maybe I’m touchy about this, but I feel like we put way too much thought into our sexual orientation and making sure that orientation is heard loud and clear.
Anyway, you were an ADORABLE child and I’ve spent most of my life being called ‘son’ accidentally so I totally get you.
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Thanks Kristen! I agree that we do put too much thought into not just our own sexual orientation, but others’ as well. I think the phrase was so funny though, “she’s a big ol’ homo” it just struck a funny chord with me. I definitely did not mean to imply or infer that “there’s anything wrong with that”.
Sorry sis, I think I started that rumor. But hey, now we are even right? I figure you must have spread a rumor or two about me. Why else would I be getting penis enhancement emails. So cruel.
Two words: Chicken. coop.
I get those emails too and last time I checked I am definitely a girl. Don’t know what’s up with that???
“I definitely did not mean to imply or infer that “there’s anything wrong with that”.”
I know you didn’t! It’s all good. I’m talking about society in general.
Perhaps I am getting way too deep, you big ol’ homo.
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That’s how I row!
Trying to remember the first time I realized you were a girl…
Personally, I had LONG hair, and was mistaken for a girl until age 13. Perhaps that’s why I’ve had a beard since age 19. I, too, am straight.
Ha, ha, ha, this totally cracks me up! I think that when you are an independent woman then people automatically label you as a lesbian, even if you are married. Some people just don’t get that you can be married, to a man, and still be independent. Or that you may have been single at the time in which some of your stories took place. But know that you are not alone in people assuming this of you. I have a very close friend who is very independent like you. She travels all over the world by herself or with other women friends. Let me say that she is very STRAIGHT! We have worked together for many years and do alot of things together. But we do also have lesbian friends that we do things with. At one early point in our friendship with a lesbian couple, they kept trying to set her up with other single lesbian friends of theirs. When they found out that she was straight it was something to laugh about. At first it was very disconcerting for my friend to be thought of as a lesbian even though she wasn’t. She would ask me time and time again, “Do I look like a lesbian? Am I putting that vibe out there that I am?” And I would just laugh and tell her no. The two of us have also been called a lesbian couple, so now when we have dinner with our friends, we are the STRAIGHT lesbian couple.
I’m pretty sure it was your gay pride parade post. Which I loved, by the way!