agamemnon2004

Hey, y'all.

So this here's my first rant - about commodification. Of us, of people - and here I am, jazzing on this internet community thing, trying to meet other people, and it's supposed to be free and easy, the wonderful thing about the internet is there's so much space, everyone gets a shot.

But it's not. And there isn't. And we're still the same thing here we were outside, a package, neatly wrapped, to be assessed, valued, weighted and purchased or discarded.

Are you cool enough? Are you pretty enough? Are your comments hip, ironic and incisive, or just the mad grumblings of a guy whose seen too many pretty girls do too many brutal things.

I'm on one of those web dating sites too. All my friends love it, and five or six have found meaningful relationships there.

But to me, it just makes it all too clear what we are all worth. Male vs. Female. Straight vs. Bi. Coupled vs. Single. The values are perfectly clear.

But perhaps it's a lovely thing, in a way, to be the least desirable commodity in the social world, a single bi- guy.

Cause with nothing to lose, really, I can post things like this, for the eyes of no one but myself... and my own, finite satisfaction.