Trapezoid
I mentioned in a previous entry that I took the “straight-acting.com” quiz the other day. If you are, like me, one of that last bone-smoking males on earth to hear about it, you are asked questions based on gay stereotypes. The more you fit the stero-type, the higher your score, with ten being the highest and zero being the lowest.
I not only fell on the straighter side of the scale, but I am so bad at being gay I got a zero. That’s right. It was not just that some of the “gay” things listed didn’t fall into my interests (like figure-skating), there were somethings I simply had never heard of. And because of that I’m a goose egg? Because I have never been exposed? When you score a zero, does that mean that, as far as being gay is concerned, you don’t exist? You’re a nobody? A nothing?
I’ll admit that I have never fit in well with the gay social scene. I have nothing against the typical lifestyle. It’s just not what I’m used to. I don’t dance well. I don’t dress well. I can’t quote old movies. It’s like it’s high school in the 1950’s and the hip gays are the cool kids, and I’m the square.
Except that’s the straight world. I’m too gay to be a square. The way I see it, in the gay world, I’m a trapezoid. Remember trapezoids in geometry class? They are a four-sided shapes (like squares) but their sides are slanted making it a square that’s “bent.” Trapezoids are the queer squares.
But I’m okay with that…at least I’m a trapezoid and not a nothing.
January 25th, 2005 at 5:53 am
Like the song say’s, “It’s Hip To Be A Trapezoid”. Oh,…never mind. I know the feeling.
Too bent to be a square, and not quite pointy enough to be a triangle. Fine by me.
I’ve always felt that big trap’s are sexy.
January 25th, 2005 at 12:31 pm
I think I got a 3 on that quiz. I think it’s bogus. The whole quiz, I mean.
They’re basing it on how well you blend in with “straight society” by analyzing your “traits” that are “obviously gay”.
Most times people don’t know I’m gay unless I tell them.
I wouldn’t worry to much about it, Tony. There’s room for all shapes in this world!
January 25th, 2005 at 2:10 pm
I scored a 4. Gay men are as vaired as straight men in our likes/dislikes, sports, TV, movies, etc. Scoring a 0 on some internet quiz doesn’t really mean a damned thing. You are who you are.
January 29th, 2005 at 9:03 pm
Ha! Tony, the trapezoid analogy is great! I know how you feel. My partner, who is butch but more in tune with gay “culture” than I am, keeps reminding me that my gay card got lost in the mail. I have no design sense and hate buying cloths — or anything thing else except for books and electronics. Yeah, the trapezoid reference is right on.
February 3rd, 2005 at 4:23 pm
I never seem to “fit” w/the typical gay life either.