accidental feminist

inversely proportional December 12, 2005

Funny story:

In college, there were these socially-maladjusted guys who started a little pseudo-frat in our dorm, one of the explicit purposes of which was to annoy myself and my best friend, Lee. (Two of the guys in this group went on the following year to infamous careers as arsonists…yeah, seriously, they were crazy.) Once they asked us if we would make-out if they gave us $10. I explained to them that if we were attracted to each other, we would make-out without being paid, and that, conversely, since we were not lesbians, we didn’t want to make-out, even for a cool ten-spot. “So, like, are you guys going to make out or not?”

But one of my favorite comments I ever recieved from one of these guys (Willy was his name), was that (and here I’m paraphrasing a bit, and I kick myself every day for not having a tape recorder with me and on at that moment) “I was not attractive enough to talk as much as I did”.

In other words, I could be opinionated and boisterious if they could just tune me out and look at my hotness. But since I did not have the appropriate level of conventionally-good-looks, I should know better than to pipe up.

This from a man who is probably still a virgin at this very moment.