"This may come out harsh..........."
Okay, all my friends know that when I preface any statement with that line I am about to be painfully blount and all tact will be thrown out of the window. It's basically NO HOLDS BARRED at that point! As if I had any tact to begin with!!!!!! But anyway I've noticed something that bothers me A LOT!!! I've been in the game since 1994 and it is just so prevalent now that I just have to speak out about it.JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE GAY, HAVE A CUTE FACE, AND A HALF DECENT BODY DOES NOT MEAN THAT GOD HAS PUT YOU ON EARTH TO BE A MODEL!!! I mean it's just rediculous at this point. Why does every (maybe not EVERY) gay male, specifically BLACK male, between 18 and 40 who gets the smallest compliment from anyone seem to think they are destined for greatness in the world of modeling. Just check out the website ModelMayhem.com and you'll see. Not that some are not suited for this industry, but let's WAKE UP PEOPLE (that's why I always say GOOD MORNING at the end of my blogs)!!! Can we as young gay, black men aspire for anything else. Why settle for allowing yourself to constantly judged on just your looks and/or physical appearance? Just because I tell you that you are cute doesn't mean that it's time for you to right out and develop and portfolio and wait for several dozen magazines to begin beating down your door just to put your face in print. Most of these "aspiring model/actor/singer/fill in the blank"s can't tell tell you anything about the industry except which clothes are currently in style. How about doing your homework on the industry? I'd put any amount of money on the fact that none of these people can tell me the name of the first black male model to make it in a magazine or on TV. I'm not coming down on models as a whole, but I think that the issue lies deeper.
"Okay class, raise your hand if you want to be a singer, model, actor, or entertainer when you grow up." (*****Silence as the teacher, who's class is full of gay black men, counts the hands of 98% of the class*****) Alright I may be exagerating with the 98%, let's go with 97%. But anyway, can't we aspire for more? What will happen to these individuals? They will fail miserably to even crack the surface of this exclusive industry and end up doing porn or something. Then we'll have more sights like cocodorm, where guys with no-so-cute face and way-too-small penis try to earn a living buy having unprotected sex on the internet for all the world to see (Oh yeah, and don't forget the contracting of As I Die Slowly, that would be my little name for AIDS).
Let me tell you how this happens, let's paint a little picture for you: Some random gay black male in his early 20s decides that he's gonna beg his mom for permission to go to the club tonight or just sooner decided to sneak out of the house for the night. After "fleeting", showering, putting on his requisite pair of designer jeans and timbs, then selecting and top, he bathes himself in some cologne and calls his "good Judy" to come and pick him up. While riding to the club they talk about who they are gonna pick up at "the bar" and compliment each other on how "sickening" they each look tonight. With his freshly cut, edged, and processed hair, pearly white smile he then enters the club, to the looks and stares of many. Then he thinks to himself, they are all "hotty for my body" as he quickly takes off his shirt revealing his tank top which seems to be painted onto his bulging pecs. He then looks around and winks and smiles at some little fem bottom causing them to get weak in the knees while he waits for the endless sea of guys that try to hit on him by walking past him 39 times all-the-while staring into his eyes or coming up to him and asking him "Don't I know you from somewhere?" or telling their overly loud, feminine best friend to go over to him and tell him "My friend over there thinks you're cute" or something to that affect. Now that his ego is inflated he feels that the whole world is his playgroung and that he should "bless" the world with the oppotunity to his beautiful face and body in print on screen. GIVE ME A FREAKIN BREAK!!!!!
Why do so many of us young people try to find the quickest and easiest road to success, and why does success always have to be measured upon whether or not you are in the public eye. I think that at this point I'm just ranting and raving. I'll share some more later. I just needed this little break and some time to get my mind off of my STUPID doctoral dissertation, which is kicking my ASS!!
GOOD MORNING.
posted by E. Lewis @ 1:00 PM
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