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It was the same kinda deal when I was a male stripper several years ago: either you were a top of the line Chippendales kinda dude or you were... basically gay. Between that and the ridiculously sketchy management, I called that quits very quickly.
That aside, since we're dipping into sexual politics a little here, this is where I'm at with it. I truly and honestly believe that, as a species, we should be WELL beyond unfair treatment based on gender, sexual preference, race, religion, whatever. We are at a point in history where we SHOULD be past all that bullshit and I don't play into it. EVERYONE gets a fair chance in my presence unless they give me a legitimate reason to treat them otherwise.
I am aware that I am a minority in this way of thinking, it's disheartening but it's reality. Either men are stuck in the some archaic alpha mentality or women are (rightfully) spiteful of the horrific treatment men have bestowed upon them over the entire course of history. It is understandable, it is justified, but it is also cyclical and breeds resentment. It wasn't "men" that treated women (or any other oppressed group) so horribly, it was a bunch of ignorant, fucked-up assholes. Their sex had nothing to do with their bullshit, it was simply an excuse for their sociopathy.
I don't mean to insult or stir up a hornets nest with these statements, they are my personal views, so please take that with a grain of salt.
With that said, in the digital world (especially the cam world) we create our own communities. We choose who can stay and who can go, who is welcome and who is not, who is treated as a peer and who is treated as lesser. We can ban, block, ignore, unfollow, delete, etc. Given this opportunity, we are also presented with the ability to see people as simply... humans. No gender, no race, just text on a screen that embodies how they choose to represent themselves.
I have really tried to seize this opportunity to improve myself as a person; to build my identity and interactive community not on the broken, fucked up foundation that ignorant assholes built, but on a fresh foundation of "either you are a respectful human or you are an asshole". I think, in a way, we can all relate to that and I really hope I'm not alone in this ideal.
That aside, since we're dipping into sexual politics a little here, this is where I'm at with it. I truly and honestly believe that, as a species, we should be WELL beyond unfair treatment based on gender, sexual preference, race, religion, whatever. We are at a point in history where we SHOULD be past all that bullshit and I don't play into it. EVERYONE gets a fair chance in my presence unless they give me a legitimate reason to treat them otherwise.
I am aware that I am a minority in this way of thinking, it's disheartening but it's reality. Either men are stuck in the some archaic alpha mentality or women are (rightfully) spiteful of the horrific treatment men have bestowed upon them over the entire course of history. It is understandable, it is justified, but it is also cyclical and breeds resentment. It wasn't "men" that treated women (or any other oppressed group) so horribly, it was a bunch of ignorant, fucked-up assholes. Their sex had nothing to do with their bullshit, it was simply an excuse for their sociopathy.
I don't mean to insult or stir up a hornets nest with these statements, they are my personal views, so please take that with a grain of salt.
With that said, in the digital world (especially the cam world) we create our own communities. We choose who can stay and who can go, who is welcome and who is not, who is treated as a peer and who is treated as lesser. We can ban, block, ignore, unfollow, delete, etc. Given this opportunity, we are also presented with the ability to see people as simply... humans. No gender, no race, just text on a screen that embodies how they choose to represent themselves.
I have really tried to seize this opportunity to improve myself as a person; to build my identity and interactive community not on the broken, fucked up foundation that ignorant assholes built, but on a fresh foundation of "either you are a respectful human or you are an asshole". I think, in a way, we can all relate to that and I really hope I'm not alone in this ideal.