I don't ... I don't ....where to begin in replying to you
You mean ... you thought I was talking about you personally when I said this?
Yes, I would be outraged. Let's play the game of "Who Am I?" If the first thing a person
says is, "I am a homosexual," yes, I think there is something definitely wrong with them.
O.K., so you enjoy having sex with other men instead of women. I couldn't care less. But
that's the way you want to be remembered for posterity? That's the most important thing
you can say about yourself?
You thought "a person" was you? And that all the subsequent "you's" thus applied to you personally?
How terribly, terribly awful ...that you took that as a personal attack ... I am so deeply sorry.
Did you stop at all to wonder ... How does he know I am gay? How does he know I am a man? How does he know how I would answer "Who Am I?"
My friend, I knew none of these answers. I knew absolutely, positively nothing about you. To be honest, I thought you were a woman, but had no particular reason to think this. I still know absolutely, positively nothing about you, other than what I can infer from your comments now, which inferences may still not be right.
I think the manner of my prose above is fairly common in the use of the impersonal "you." However, it it left any possibility for the interpretation you apparently gave it ... you indeed have my deepest apology for the distress it has caused you.
You obviously know nothing about me (which is as it should be) to have been able to believe I would ever intentionally hurt you in such a fashion. To me, Constant, you were just another anonymous poster ... we were sparring in the no-holds-barred fashion of the Boxing Ring. But that NEVER extends to attacking or hurting some personally. Again, if my poor choice of words. in haste, caused an awful misunderstanding that struck home to you as a person, I apologize most deeply and humbly.
JC |
