So, the question Jimbo asks is why should Gays be interested in Joni when she's so up front heterosexual?
And I think to myself? Good question, yes. What could possibly be in it for me to listen to this blatantly heterosexual woman? Why should I follow the adventures of Capt. Picard, who is so blatantly heterosexual? How can I relate to a movie where Aliens have come to distroy the earth and the lead characters are off chasing skirt ? -Is this really what would be on the mind of someone faced with the end of the world??? Or I turn on a ballgame or tennis match and the tv crew is panning up to adoring wives and girlfriends unabashed in shoving his heterosexuality in my face. What do I care who Brad Johnson is shlepping? I just want to watch the game. From GunSmoke and the Lucy Show to the Simpsons and Allie McBeal, no matter what channel I turn to, no matter what hour of the day, it's all the same: Night in, night out, movie after movie, tv show upon tv show, radio song after radio song. -Quoting the character from Parting Glances, "Why are heterosexuals so narcissitic that 99% of everything you see has to be about them.?" And somehow I find a way through it all to find there's much I can relate to. And if Jimbo were as magnanimous as he says he is, I'd like him to wander over to the gay section of his local Borders and try the same. He might find the human experience of others are much like his own and there is richness he can absorb an learn from. If I can relate to Joni, I bet he can relate to Edmund White if he wanted to. I would even try and resist being "taken aback" that he was standing there...
