Meme again
So Neil, having done another meme, has inspired me to finally complete the much-overdue Caesar's Bath meme handed me by Julie what is now quite a long time ago. I should beg some excuse, but the best I can come up with is that I have genuinely been thinking about it the whole time, and unfortunately I chose to interpret it fairly strictly: for me "I just don't get it" is not synonymous with "I don't like it." The game is finding something whose very appeal you simply don't see, which makes it rather harder. But without further ado:
I toss the ball to Neil, Tony, and whoever comments first on this post, thus proving that they might actually see such a baton-passing...
- Fantasy. As a genre. Science fiction I get, power fantasy I get -- the imaginary world that could never be and shows nothing special about the people that live in it just isn't obvious in its appeal from my perspective. This may be because my perspective is somewhat limited, but I genuinely don't think so.
- Dancing. It occasionally happens that people I know want to go out dancing for the sake of dancing and not for the sake of something else (a reason to get drunk, getting play, what have you), and this boggles my mind. I get dancing as a social event, I get dancing as community, I even get dancing in some complicated fashion (English, line, etc.), I just don't get dancing for its own sake.
- BDSM. Pain, restraint, power, just not appealing to me in an actual sexual situation and I don't even see why they could be. Sorry.
- Lesbians as an object of male sexual desire. Say it along with me: lesbians aren't interested in you. By definition! That's what it is to be a lesbian! It could be that I've known a few too many lesbians too closely to even imagine lesbians as attractive to men anymore, but that's the way it is.
- Personal relationships with God. This may be the only one that's even a minor cheat. Agnostic though I am (and unlike PZ over at Pharyngula, I'm a mathematician and not a scientist and therefore can't reject God merely based on a perponderance of the evidence), I do see at least the external signs of having deep belief, and they seem pretty good, so in that sense I understand the attraction. What I don't get is how a sensible person could possibly get to the point where they can accept such a seemingly crazy thing.
I toss the ball to Neil, Tony, and whoever comments first on this post, thus proving that they might actually see such a baton-passing...

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