aamusedinatx | Return to the Interview Meme

mystryloca Finally got me my five questions, and they were fabulous, thought-provoking ones, too. Rather than bury the answers way back in last week, I wanted to post them here, fresh...and maybe revive the meme for those who didn't participate...tell a friend "INTERVIEW ME" and have them ask you 5 questions--any five questions. Answer them as a reply to their questions, and also post the Q/A in your own item, and invite people to ask you "interview me." What you learn about those you think you know...can be truly amazing.

Yay!
I *KNEW* Questions from you would be interesting!! You never disappoint, either!

1. What is the most deviant thing you've done? Physically, sexually, politically or otherwise.

Physically Probably LSD, twice. The first time was while having sex with a boyfriend in college. We locked ourselves in his dorm room for hours. It was truly a mind blowing experience and I wrote about it here

sexually I have a hard time thinking of anything sexual as deviant. Mind you I draw the line at barnyard animals and children. THAT I consider deviant sex. Any other sexual activity between one, two, or more CONSENTING adults (key word consent) is fine with me. My own 'deviant' activities according to the common idea of 'deviant' sex would include...an orgy, several 3somes and 4somes, bisexual sex, anal sex, interracial sex, masturbation, public sex, sex with married men (without and sometimes with their spouse's knowledge/consent/participation). Various low-key bondage experiences and...strap-on sex.

politicallyI fancied myself quite a radical from early on. When I was in 2nd grade I instigated a revolt among the girls in my class at the catholic school we attended. It was 1970 and of course we had to wear skirts to school. The boys (who attended school in a seperate wing, but shared the playground) would pin us down and pull up our skirts. We were only allowed to wear shorts under our skirts on Friday which was PE day. Me and about 20 other girls decided to wear shorts under our skirts EVERY day. We lied and told our parents it was a PE week. We all got sent to the principal's office, where we had our parents called and we were sent home. We all told our parents the REAL reason we were wearing shorts and they converged angrily on the school for not monitoring the playground better. After that, so long as the bloomers or shorts didn't show under our skirts we were allowed to wear them...or not.

In high school I fought against a small Baptist college that didn't want our high school to have it's first prom since racial integration was forced down the community's throat. Me and two friends (one of whose father ran the local print shop and the local music store) 'borrowed' (with his dad's knowledge) the keys to the shop and had bumper stickers printed that said "Don't let the BSU B.S. You". A few days later (after they were cut and dry) I went up on the ETBC campus and plastered them on every car I could find. It made the front page of the local news--and no one told on us. We had our prom. We had it at the new Civic Center, not on Campus, but we had our Prom. The first one since 1966.

In 1991 I was arrested in Houston, Texas during a protest outside of Texaco of the First Gulf War. The charges were later dropped against all of us. Which really bummed me out as that was the only time I was ever arrested for civil disobedience. I marched at the first 3 anti-war demonstrations in San Francisco for the current conflict.

The current regime has me in danger of stepping from liberal libertarian to social anarchist and you'll see me in the street throwing Molotov cocktails if they touch Roe vs. Wade.

2. What is the main thing that most other women don't understand about you?
The main thing would be...my lack of posession and jealousy. They don't get that I don't need fidelity and a "one true love/soulmate" to 'complete' me, or to make me happy. Love does not divide, love multiplies. I like my single-hood, my poly-lifestyle, my varied loves, and my deep abiding friendships. I need no more then that.

3. What is one thing you hope to accomplish before your time here is over?
To make this place better than it was when I arrived even in some small way. I want to leave a social legacy of activism on a local level and advancing tolerance as a way of life, not a lip-service.

4. Write a recommendation of someone on your friends list for me (it can be someone I know or someone I don't know). Tell me what is so special about them, what you find appealing about them and why I should know them (shit, I might just turn this one into a meme all it's own).
I wish I knew, better, some of the people I have befriended, so they can read the locked posts in my journal. Not all of them carry active journals of their own, so I can tell you very little about them. I'm hesitant to recommend some"one" here at the risk of someone else going "oh she doesn't think much of me" which is not true.

So...at that risk, I'd recommend a young woman named

enzie who is an exception to many midwest inhabitants. Young, bold, funny, articulate, intelligent, tackling student teaching with enthusiasm and creativity, trying to balance, school, work, boyfriend, friends, life and living and explaining the good and bad of all that with a clear eye.

5. What is mos troubling about American society and culture today?

I'd have to say it is this social co-dependence we seem to create as is evidenced in our collective unwillingness to accept blame for our own actions and reactions--it is always someone else's fault, our willingness to wallow in extreme collective emotion (such as the Schiavo case, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, The Michael Jackson coutroom drama), our inability to distinguish public opinion from due process in our courts of law, our willingness to demand our government take responsibilty for things which should be the responsibility of the individual. Our lack of care in the raising of our children, in the state of our current education system, in our gross imbalance of economic assistance in terms of education funding, food and social support for disadvantaged families, and the whole NIMBA mind-set which is, unfortunately, waged with glee and with instilling fear as a divisive motivation by the current neo-con powers.