Monday, May 24, 2004

Yes, I am offensive, but my name isn't

As a buddy of mine recently defined in his first post of his blog, what a blog was (as if this wasn't completely obvious), I too feel the need to define something.

LBG=lilblackgirl

Yes, I can be offensive, but my name isn't.
Ironically, this name doesn't seem to initiate the typical (or what i thought would be typical), racial responses. Understandably, it receives responses more sexual in nature. The world may be advancing in leaps and bounds, but it still lives in the gutter. lilblackgirl is a very old nickname given to my by some soccer buddies about 12 years ago. Whether it's initial meaning was racial, I don't know. Knowing them, it wasn't, but we were in our young twenties back then and i can't speak on the mindset of a bunch of hormone driven, alcohol drinking, soccer playing idiots that we were back then. I just know that it stuck with me. Inevitably, the next question always asked is: Are you really a little black girl. Well no. Not even close. I'm a 35 year old white male whose only color is pale. I spend the majority of my waking hours indoors and in front of a computer. I may be dying of radiation exposure, but not of skin cancer. I like the sun, but it doesn't like me. I tend to burn aggressively and peel in the exact same manor. So no, i'm not a little black girl.

Am i offensive? I can be. Not intentionally (at least most of the time), but i do speak my mind and that does piss off plenty of people. When i was younger, the created anger was based on the content of my comments. They were intended to produce tension and anexity for those i spoke of out of pure juvenille deliquency. Now, it's because i've purely stated my opinion or i just say 'fuck' a lot. I'm moderately intelligent, so i know what it takes to push people's buttons, but what makes my intelligence moderate and not just the lack thereof, is i just don't push those buttons. All that being said, LBG is who he is and then not at all so.

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