Donovan
beer, I want beer
There is nothing wrong with fixing to do something any more than it's wrong to artificially make "you" a plural in NY when youse need somebody to fuggedaboudit. I have lived, by fortune good or bad, all over the country and there is beauty and bullshit in every location in equal measure if you know how to look for it.
But this thread is about Texas. Therefore:
Texas has some of the biggest ingrained egos I have ever seen outside Hollywood. Many Texans carry the pride of having been a country once all by itself way too far. Those people operate under the assumption that long ago they allowed the rest of the USA to join the republic of Texas.
Texas racists are also larger than life. People like Eloisel really do exist, their bigotry is so nonchalant and ingrained that they don't even recognize the concept that they might be inappropriate. I once saw a tiny little punkass white douchebag chew out a towering black bus driver with all kinds of racial slurs because they didn't grab my bags fast enough. I was mortified when the guy just quietly took it and even asked him why. His answer: "This is Dallas." As if that was all the explanation needed.
Lots of Texas is scrub desert. While beauty can be found there it is my least favorite environment.
The same mentality toward race also fuels sexist misogynistic behavior that is equally acceptable. These guys would see a woman with a black eye and say nothing to her because someone already done told her once.
None of these things is universal or representative of the whole state. But they are present enough to be pervasive and keep me out.
But this thread is about Texas. Therefore:
Texas has some of the biggest ingrained egos I have ever seen outside Hollywood. Many Texans carry the pride of having been a country once all by itself way too far. Those people operate under the assumption that long ago they allowed the rest of the USA to join the republic of Texas.
Texas racists are also larger than life. People like Eloisel really do exist, their bigotry is so nonchalant and ingrained that they don't even recognize the concept that they might be inappropriate. I once saw a tiny little punkass white douchebag chew out a towering black bus driver with all kinds of racial slurs because they didn't grab my bags fast enough. I was mortified when the guy just quietly took it and even asked him why. His answer: "This is Dallas." As if that was all the explanation needed.
Lots of Texas is scrub desert. While beauty can be found there it is my least favorite environment.
The same mentality toward race also fuels sexist misogynistic behavior that is equally acceptable. These guys would see a woman with a black eye and say nothing to her because someone already done told her once.
None of these things is universal or representative of the whole state. But they are present enough to be pervasive and keep me out.
