Single Nerdome
Upon the eve of my Star Wars tattoo appointment, I decided to write something quick before I go to sleep. I was having a conversation earlier about how it is still hard for me to date given the interests that I have. I really make the attempt to engage in conversation with like minded radical women of colour, but once the geeky/need core side comes out it basically crashes and burns.
I was talking to this one woman last year and it was going well until I made some comment about batman. Then she said that it probably wouldn’t work out, and that’s the shit I don’t like.
Why the fuck is it wrong for me to love batman?!? There is more to my existence than being radical all the time. I don’t want to talk about the systems of oppression within a social construct all the time. Maybe I want to talk about the DLC from borderlands 2 and how I’m at level 50. I can’t directly quote Bell Hooks or Audrey Lorde, but I can sure as hell tell you the names of every Robin:
Dick Grayson
Jason Todd
Damien Wayne
Tim Drake
And the fact that there was a female Robin who was Stephanie Brown. I don’t discuss feminist theory, but I can damn for sure talk about how Dr. Manhattan can kill superman based on the fact that he can control all forms of matter. I make it know that one of my most prized possessions is a Bruce Willis action figure from the movie Sin City, and I screen potential girlfriends by asking them who the best Power Ranger is. (Tommy of course)
Furthermore I admit that I prefer drawing and playing video games over sex. There has yet to be a woman to tell me otherwise.
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