You think you know people
Dec. 31st, 2002 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsJust remembered that I wanted to write about something, that puzzled me at the time.
My sister and her friend had stayed the evening, I was working on the computer and didn't think about stopping. They're at mine so often that they're certainly not treated as guests. They both know that I read slash, not that we've sat and talked about it but they've used my computer enough to know what I read and look at. We even joke about me reading porn.
I was mailing one of my friends who's been ill and she wanted a story to cheer her up. Kayleigh wanted to know what I was talking about. She can't understand how I can mail people every day and find things to say. So I told her that my friend wanted a story but I wasn't going to write with them there. That's when the insanity started. They were both shocked that I actually wrote, and not just wrote normal stuff but porn! I sat and could hear Leeanne saying ' people who write stuff like that must have something deficient in their sex lives' and 'they must be lesbians' Okay, I sat and was astounded at that. These are people who know me *extremely* well, not some troll off the net. They know I'm not a lesbian and I'm extremely happy with James, my sex life is certainly not lacking ( if that's tmi sorry )
I just don't get it. Why the hell would the fact that I love to read/write/think about two hot guys getting it on make me a lesbian? It's not a big deal at all. For fucks sake James doesn't care that I write this stuff, why should anyone else get bent out of shape about it?
I'm glad that I'm totally comfortable with what I do. I'd hate to think what attitudes like this do to people who aren't. See I thought if anyone would understand what I love it would be my sister. But no, it's not to be.
Looking back I lol. Maybe a 'I can't believe it' kinda laugh, but a laugh all the same.
My sister and her friend had stayed the evening, I was working on the computer and didn't think about stopping. They're at mine so often that they're certainly not treated as guests. They both know that I read slash, not that we've sat and talked about it but they've used my computer enough to know what I read and look at. We even joke about me reading porn.
I was mailing one of my friends who's been ill and she wanted a story to cheer her up. Kayleigh wanted to know what I was talking about. She can't understand how I can mail people every day and find things to say. So I told her that my friend wanted a story but I wasn't going to write with them there. That's when the insanity started. They were both shocked that I actually wrote, and not just wrote normal stuff but porn! I sat and could hear Leeanne saying ' people who write stuff like that must have something deficient in their sex lives' and 'they must be lesbians' Okay, I sat and was astounded at that. These are people who know me *extremely* well, not some troll off the net. They know I'm not a lesbian and I'm extremely happy with James, my sex life is certainly not lacking ( if that's tmi sorry
I just don't get it. Why the hell would the fact that I love to read/write/think about two hot guys getting it on make me a lesbian? It's not a big deal at all. For fucks sake James doesn't care that I write this stuff, why should anyone else get bent out of shape about it?
I'm glad that I'm totally comfortable with what I do. I'd hate to think what attitudes like this do to people who aren't. See I thought if anyone would understand what I love it would be my sister. But no, it's not to be.
Looking back I lol. Maybe a 'I can't believe it' kinda laugh, but a laugh all the same.
