Being Gay

[Emiliano]

Try the thought exercise I provided in my last post. I just edited it into that post, not sure if it shows for you.

For me, knowing a back story can influence how I feel about something/someone. With people more so, I try to limit the way I treat them by my own experiences with them. I tend to be a forgiving person.

I get what your saying, and its a valid and interesting point. But it also detracts from the bigger point I was making. Thats why I said you were being too literal. David was just an example I pulled because its often been considered the ideal male form, or at least an example of one. Not the ideal whole package or perfect partner. Just in terms of male physical beauty. Outside of Botero or Giacometti, it is often the physical strength that is being celebrated about the male form.

I mean, its not a point that I expected anyone to argue against - whether we are talking about historic artistic depictions or modern day ones in pop culture - ideal men are generally portrayed as muscular, strong and women as thin and delicate. At least physically. That's changing some in the modern era I think, but its not yet so different as to be a radical departure from male and female depictions of hundreds of years ago.

Thats all I was getting at with the inclusion of David, and the joke that no one looks at him and says "what a nice personality". Though now after talking to you, I'll always associate him with beating women and dogs. And that certainly does decrease his beauty in my mind. But to be honest, he's not my type anyway.