Even though I kinda had to reinvent myself to do it. Please, ignore the "a.k.a" that is only for MovableType which apparently doesn't like me.

For my first community post I'm going to recap a conversation I overheard while waiting for friends at a bar:

There were three people, a couple (man and woman) and their gay friend. I don't know how long the (straight) boyfriend had known the gay friend but it probably couldn't have been long as the boyfriend quickly started asking asinine questions about the "sexual" nature of gay life. What was he curious about? What else but "Who's the woman, when, you know, you're...you know."

At this point I set down my drink and tried my best not to look like I was listening in, even though I totally was. The gay friend explained the whole, "top and bottom" situation adding that very few gay men do both, a lot of them are either one or the other and the more "aggressive" gay men (read: masculine) are the tops. This pretty much confirmed for the boyfriend that there are "women" in gay relationships and he proceeded to ask a question that not only shocked me but also his girlfriend by the expression on her face.

He leaned across the table (yeah, at this point I'm not even pretending I'm not eavesdropping) and proposes a question to the gay friend that someone had proposed to him: What would you rather have, a daughter or a gay son?

Now, this is when his girlfriend's expression got all squiggy and the gay friend just kinda leaned back, trying to laugh it off but the boyfriend was having none of it, adding, "I'm serious, it's a legitimate question. What would you rather have?"

The gay friend looks to the girlfriend, probably for help but she's still staring at her boyfriend like, "WTF?" and he stutters out an "I don't know," which of course doesn't satisfy the boyfriend, who volunteers that he'd rather have a gay son because he wouldn't want to raise a girl in this "Britney Spears" world. He looks to his girlfriend for backup and this and she just stares at him, mouth slightly agape. I'd like to think that in this moment she was weighing her options.

I could give him credit for the fear of raising a young girl in an overly sexualized environment, but then I realize he'd choose not to have a girl at all if given the option because he probably fears his daughter will end up a slut. Methinks he'd be one of those dads who'd greet his daughter's dates at the front door with a shotgun, so it's probably for the best if he doesn't ever have a daughter.

What gets me about this question is that the boyfriend probably didn't realize that in this version of "fuck or die" he made the worst two possible options for parents a daughter and a gay son, (because, even if the daughter were a lesbian, she's still female and thus, still a bad option) failing to realize that those very people were sitting AT THE SAME BOOTH with him. He saw nothing wrong with the question in that, no matter what, it's understood that the best possible option for parents is a straight son, which in this day and age is sad.

I continued to sip my beer, counting off the minutes until my friends arrived, which thankfully, was soon.

So, how was your weekend?

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