A Fond Farewell… For Now
I’m shutting down The Southern Gentleman.
If you’re one of the few people who have read this blog on a semi-regular basis, I appreciate your following along with the ramblings, silliness and otherwise plain-old-fun that I had whilst writing my little love notes.
But starting today, I am going to be focusing on my dream to become a published writer, and that means devoting more time to my fiction work and trying to increase my profile as a fiction writer.
Thus, The Southern Gentleman must go away for a while. I’m going to be setting the viewing restrictions to invitation only, and I’m not going to be inviting anyone. If and when I feel the need to resume this forum, I’ll open the settings back up and welcome folks back.
Until then, thank you for giving me the encouragement I needed to pursue a dream. I hope you’ll follow me over to my new blog/website at http://jasonbrooks.wordpress.com.
Cross Dressing Teen Disrupts Class?
Here’s an item in my local paper about a teenage boy who just moved to Georgia from Miami. He happens to enjoy dressing in women’s clothing, and did so on his first day of high school. Suffice it to say, the high school where he is enrolled is not known for having a progressive nature. There were fights. People called him a faggot. The school, concerned for his safety, sent him home. He’s since withdrawn.
On the surface, a fairly simple story about the bigotry that still exists regarding transsexual people (if, indeed, that’s still the correct way to refer to someone who identifies with the opposite sex without going so far as to have surgery). And it gets even more play because it’s here in Georgia, which is the South, which is where all ignorant and retarded people live in an uncivilized and wholly backwards “society”, if you can even call the lose pastiche of our cultural fabric being of sufficient enough character to be deemed a “society”.
