Out of random boredom today I decided to browse some personal ads on singles sites. I'll be honest sometimes I do this just for a laugh if I'm surfing and want to kill some time. I went to several diverse sites: gay.com, yahoo.com, interracialsingles.net, christianmingle.com, and even eharmony.com. Out of all the profiles I looked at, be they posted by men, women, gay, straight, bisexual, people of color or ethnicity, handicap even, one word stood out: normal.
What I can't figure out is why anyone would want to date anyone normal or even describe himself or herself as normal? The dictionary defines normal as conforming to the standard or the common type; usual, not abnormal, regular and serving to establish a standard. Given the defintions of normal mentioned, I should just rest my case. But I'm going to put my size 9.5 in my mouth and keep going.
Why would anyone want to date someone who can be defined as "regular, usual, or conforming to the standard of the common type?" All that means is that when you go out on dates you're guaranteed a one-way trip to dullsville or snoozetown. Better hope they make a good vodka martini at the restaraunt you're eating at. That way when you're date is going on and on about how normal he or she is and how your parents are going to love him/her, you can look at them your glazed over eyes and they will mistake the mental daggers you're stabbing them with for complete adoration. A night at home watching McSteamy do McDreamy would be more fun than that (clearly that's the version of Grey's Anatomy that plays in my head, and we've all seen the "enter at your own risk" signs placed around my mind).
Dramatic comparison perhaps, but you get the point I hope.
Me, I prefer to date the freaks. The freaks will ensure that you are going to have a hell of a good time on your date and might even show you some things you've never seen before (get your minds out of the gutters pervs, unless of course you live there, I didn't mean it like that). The dates with the freaks are the ones that are going to stand out in your mind and make you smile when you think about them. Obviously, I'm not talking about the "individuals" who turn out to be stalkers, criminals, bad kissers, lousy lays, unwashed miscreants, and those who are generally of a bad element.
Why do we ruin perfectly fun words like "freak" or "deviant"? To deviate is not a bad thing. Everyonen deviates. A drunken or otherwise laptop computer-occupied airplane pilot might deviate from a planned flight path. The Senate or House might deviate from legislation to serve political ambition. Organized religion, in all its many forms, can be considered deviation from its earliest roots. A school teacher may deviate from a lesson plan that is out of date but still part of the cirriculum.
My point is deviants are not necessarily immoral and should not be judged so just because they are deviant; on the flipside, immorals are not always deviants stop ruining all the fun words. It wasn't that long ago GLBT individuals were thought of deviants and immoral (not really interchangeable terms, sorry). The immoral slogan comes from religious persecution of gays, so I'm not even going to go there because this entry will take days to complete. Gays were considered deviant because our way of life did not fit 'societal norms.' In some circles we are still considered deviants (P.S. Rick, Rush, really it won't be too much longer we just have coughed on you enough yet ... how do you think we got Larry Craig? ... Ok so my sense of humor is a bit whack, like crack - hail Whitney!, deal with it).
Oh, and back to this normal crap ... everyone has a personal definition of "normal." Everyone who places a personal ad and uses the world normal wants something different, they just don't know how to say what they want or are too afraid to say what they want. A suburban housewife, a wall street exec, a high school or college student, a millionaire, a celebrity, an artist, a politician or religious leader all have varying definitions of normal ... so I think we should have a big "Normal Party" where everyone gets together and brings their Normal. I think it would be a very deviant affair.
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