Huh.

[exhilaration]

You know, I have no problem admitting it: yes, you're right, I am making a lot of posts/starting a lot of posts with "my boyfriend..."

Hey, I get a kick out of saying it, okay? I've never had a boyfriend before and never even contemplated the possibility. I'm sure if I had a girlfriend (assuming we weren't constantly on the outs) I'd post a lot about her too, but yes, I do realize how often I use the phrase "my boyfriend." GIMME A BREAK.

So anyway. About MY BOYFRIEND and my hair products and his hair in general: I've said several times that I don't like his hair. He does not particularly like mine either and has also made this known, but whatever, my hair is awesome. He slicks his, well, not back, just down, and pretty much all the time. Yeah, I've seen it not slicked down like that, like, in the mornings and stuff, and over the summer last year sometimes I'd see him after he'd been in the water or something. I get why he does that with it: with his hair just doing whatever, he looks really young. Like, really, really young, like, if he said he was sixteen, I'd believe him and so would anyone else. It's cute, but kind of disturbing at the same time, and I definitely understand not wanting to be mistaken for a sixteen-year-old.

So, I was like, you know, you should spike your hair up. You should try the hair spiky-thingy. And as I'm suggesting this, I'm picturing it and thinking it would look pretty decent, and probably not be difficult to do, either. But he's vehemently disagreeing with me as I'm suggesting this, and I'm like, what, why not? What's wrong with spiky hair?

And his response totally baffled me.

He said, "no way, I'd look like a twink."

WHAT. THE FUCK.

Oh f-list mine, do you know what a twink is? I mean, I know what a twink is. But I was pretty sure it wasn't part of the vocabulary of a straight boy from South Jersey. Don't... I mean... isn't that just a word that gay people use? To describe other gay people? Or am I totally wrong, and everyone knows and uses this word? Cause it's not something I hear often, I mean, it's not a word I've heard, well, pretty much ever since I've lived here, except from my neighbors' son, last summer, and he's gay.

Or... is there another meaning to the word twink that I don't know?

And anyone who suggests that my boyfriend really isn't just a straight boy from South Jersey is getting a massive eye-roll. No, we don't know every.single.thing about each other. But we're quite aware of each other's sexual preferences, thanks. THAT is something we've spilled to each other in detail. He's straight.

Which is why I don't understand why the concept of "looking like a twink" is something that would even enter his head.

Somehow we went right from talking about hair stuff to my clothes being ALL OVER the floor and how I just generally turn everywhere I am into a huge mess, and I was so shocked by the twink comment that I said absolutely nothing about it, and kind of forgot about it until now.

But I'm not letting this one go. I want to know where that came from!

Comments

[poemsandsorrow.livejournal.com]

I never heard of the word "twink" before.Until now.I might have to google it or something:)

[lara-everlong.livejournal.com]

well a twink is... a gay boy who is, um, young, very pretty, kinda girly, and likes to sleep around. Could definitely be an insult in certain context, as in, it makes sense to not want to look like one if that's not how you are, but... also not a word I can see myself ever using in any context...

Ditto.

[ivy-poet.livejournal.com]

I've never heard it before either.

And I'm vaguely insulted, but not mortally offended. My husband (my STRAIGHT husband) spikes his hair.

Mostly I'm just confused, like where-tf did that come from? Inquiring minds want to know.