A while back, I read someone's post here on SG, where they basically said, "The guys/members on here nowadays are boring. What happened to all the interesting men that used to be here?"
That sat with me uncomfortably. Because the members I have met and interacted with here are far from boring. They are dynamic, interesting, experienced, caring and smart. What they, ne WE, aren't is "Wild looking." We have Dad bods or gym bods or working-class bods. We are older. We've loved and lost and been beaten and had to run from bullies and have stood and fought for people we were protecting. We've been rich, we've been famous, we've been broke, and we've been unseen. We are great big nerds and daredevils and wild men. Make no mistake, though. We've been through it and we don't need to look the part.
While @missy was out there creating SG for alternate models to have a home, us members were out there on the front lines of the culture that is SG today, building this world with her. We were there, Back in the Day, forging ground that is considered the norm today, and we don't need to look the part.
Ask us about how we listened to music that got us in trouble with the law and the church community and the government and the PMRC. Ask us about playing video games when that sort of thing could get us beat up in school or punished by our parents. Ask us about getting tattoos when they still belonged only to porn stars, bikers, military and rock and rollers. Ask us about loving comics when they were considered trash and hung on a rack at the 7-11 for $0.25 each. Ask us about board games that finally grew beyond Milton Bradley. Ask us about any 'nerd' interest you have at all, and we can tell you how we were there when it first occurred, and we don't need to look the part.
We saw home phones become smart phones. We saw computers appear. We saw a male wearing an earring go from being "gay" and getting the wearer abused and mocked, to everyone having whatever piercings and tattoos and body mods they want and it being cool. We saw thousands of things that changed the world, and we no longer need to look the part. We ARE the part.
I am not at all discounting the struggles, work and efforts every single model, hopeful, admin and photographer here has dealt with and is dealing with. What everyone does on this site is amazing and earns my admiration and appreciation daily. What I am saying is that those 'normal, boring looking' members that make up a good portion of this community are absolutely the people on the inside that helps make this site great. Plus, we love cats.
I could think of no better way to represent these valued fellow members than Megadeth, playing a song about the birth of the heavy metal scene, in a clip from Duck Dodgers. It just seemed... right.
Peace and love, my friends and future friends.
