Dating Men, Relationship with Men, Friends, Activity Partners

Apr 2004

Shelton, CT

http://profiles.friendster.com/7633140

Activist

You know, I hate describing myself on these things. I feel like I'm either going too in-depth in a description of my personality for somebody who's never met me yet, or I'm just being too mundane in my description that I could be just about anybody else...

Well, anybody who knows me that I'm political above anything else. I'm also a great big process queen, so if you don't want to have your or my behavior analyzed based upon a postmodern-feminist-liberationist perspective, then you probably should steer clear, because my "off" button is broken, and my "edit" button isn't much better.

Oh, and if you're wondering why I was wearing a shirt in the shower, I haven't got a clue either. I'm admittedly too self-conscious to allow most people to take pictures of me meaning that I've got very few to put up on these sites, and I'm too Type B to actually care all that much, so I'll probably use the same pictures that my ex-boyfriend decided to take as part of a photo-shoot. Though admittedly, I do actually like most of those pictures. Unfortunately, a few of them are a bit too racey to actually include on most sites...

This section is always worse than the "describe yourself" section, because it sort of assumes that there's one particular type of person that you would like to meet, or even worse, that there are particular types of people that you *don't* want to meet. Talk about creating a series of self-esteem and body-image problems! Of course, that goes more specifically towards sex/dating-type websites, which Friendster is a bit different from, but still...

Personally, I try to take people where they are. I think it's one of the things that distinguishes me from a large portion of the progressive community, because I'm not easily ready/willing to cut people off for not having the same type of comprehensive understanding of oppression as a systemic structure that needs to be eradicated. At the same time, however, I do like spending my time in a "safe space," if you will, so if I constantly have to put up with racism or misogyny from you, chances are I won't be wanting to spend much time talking to you, either... I like to educate and/or argue as much as the next philosophy major, but there comes a time when I need to just let you do your own educating and just want to have a drink.