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January 12, 2007 |
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Straight Disadvantage
FOUND by Jenny
in Bellevue, Washington
I found this inside an art book (having to do with the use of color) I purchased at the Half Price Books.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Been there, done that.
As a heterosexual female, I'm more inclined to say the recipient is not without advantage. (Though being able to talk well about color certainly won't hurt him.)
i wonder if heterosexual males will think this is as funny as it is or just grunt and crack open another beer
If the recipient thought it was funny, then fine. I find it stupid and possibly bigoted.
Oh good grief, get a sense of humor. It's just a little joke playing on stereotypes... I think we should all be used to that by now. And besides, if this heterosexual male artist would have been offended by this, I don't think B would have written that.
Whoah. Actually this note got me thinking...I know alot of hetero male artists who are great at art and design...but I wonder, Could they nicely decorate a home?
Heh~ I think it's funny.
I think it's great. I highly doubt this was mean...most likely something I would say to a boyfriend who I was dragging to an art museum, a way of pointing out the exact opposite of what is being said to someone who is complaining.
Funny how we have different reactions!
To me, it did sound like a very mean, snide and angry note. And I actually took it to mean that the recipient was an artist and had art in an art museum - that the author was being very sarcastic.
Funny, when I was younger, I found art museums a great place to meet straight men. I wonder what "this" refers to... a present? I wonder what the present was?
Uhm, Well, sonce it was found in an Art Book that Jenny bought, I'm going to go out on a limb here & say that the book was the present. And that it was meant as a joke.
Am I the only hetero male who can really appreciate color? And yes, I get upset when men's shoes only come in blue, brown and black.
I imagine the gift coming from a gay/queer male friend who that it will be recieved happily by his hetero male friend. The wording sounds too calculated to be anything but tounge-in-cheek.
I had a (male) linguistics professor ask the class if the word 'magenta' would be found in a man's vocabulary. We all doubted it.
HAHAHA.
I'd say that this was a gift and that the note was an inside joke.
I have recently been studying graphology and simply by glancing at the script used in that note i could determine:
-the upward slope indicates optimism
-the needle point tops of the m, h, and n's indicate comprehensive thinking
-the narrow e's indicate quick thinking
-the tall stems exceeding the upper zone (and even the lower zone of the line above it) indicate that the writer has a strong spirital intellect.
-the high flying, right-leaning i-dots indicate a writer who imagines the best case scenario.
-the short (if any) ending/beginning strokes indicate that this writer is impulsive and intuitive knows the best decision with little thought.
Wow, I didn't get anything snide from this at all. To me, it looks like B's friend is probably not the arty type, but has to go to an art museum for something (let's say to impress a girl). To help him out, B gives him a book about colour and a tongue-in-cheek note about the disadvantages of being a guy. Simple as.
>AlienEeeter
i am male and "magenta" is in my vocab, it's one of the colors used as ink in printers
I think it's funny since my boyfriend and I are going to an art museum this weekend... and he's as "typical" a "guy" as you can get. He said "as long as it isn't any of that modern art shit, I won't fall asleep."
so this is a note he would need ;)
I think this note is awesome! It's exactly the kind of note/gift I would give a male friend. And, I wouldn't mean an ounce of harm to the recipient because I talk to people that way all the time.
People are too hyper sensitive and see insults where none was intended.
found the comments on it interesting.. must add my two cents...
I thought it actually came across as a true hope for a friend and that B was really wishing the person luck.
Been there, done that.