Hey! We are gay... and we didn't even know it! - General Tiki

T Thomas Member Lake Mojave Joined: Mar 15, 2005 Posts: 372	T Thomas Posted posted on Sun, Jul 15, 2007 1:29 PM Well, she did provide the service of publicizing the event, with date, time, and location details. If fastidiousness about interior decor is, for a man, stereotyped as "gay" in our culture (and it is), it is interesting how tiki can liberate people from this straitjacket. Until I got into tiki, I was a typical barbarian. Decoration? "Themed" rooms? I devoted about as much attention to such things as I did to the internal politics of Mozambique. Then came the tiki and exotica fixations, and suddenly I've got grand visions about, well, interior decorating. Hey, life is funny I guess. I suppose the pre-feminist, un-PC male heterosexual randiness suggested by a good percentage of tiki art and style counteracts the whiff of "gayness" otherwise imputed to the decorative enterprises by ho-hum, conventional thinkers. Either that or it just looks good.

Well, she did provide the service of publicizing the event, with date, time, and location details.

If fastidiousness about interior decor is, for a man, stereotyped as "gay" in our culture (and it is), it is interesting how tiki can liberate people from this straitjacket. Until I got into tiki, I was a typical barbarian. Decoration? "Themed" rooms? I devoted about as much attention to such things as I did to the internal politics of Mozambique. Then came the tiki and exotica fixations, and suddenly I've got grand visions about, well, interior decorating. Hey, life is funny I guess.

I suppose the pre-feminist, un-PC male heterosexual randiness suggested by a good percentage of tiki art and style counteracts the whiff of "gayness" otherwise imputed to the decorative enterprises by ho-hum, conventional thinkers. Either that or it just looks good.

Post #318784 by Thomas on Sun, Jul 15, 2007 1:29 PM