Famous in Phoenix March 28, 2007
Posted by Niels in : Beauty and the Geek, Personal , trackback
Phoenix was a little ridiculous. Usually I get recognized a couple times a week. In Phoenix, it was a couple times an hour. I guess when it’s 105 degrees outside, there’s not much you can do but watch reality television.
I was asked for autographs for the first time, was mobbed by people every time I went out to a bar, and had ten year old girls scream when they spotted me in a mall. For the first time in my life, I had the experience of people in a bar watching me all night long, looking to see what I was doing and who I was talking to. Girls I didn’t know would come up to me and paw me and grind against me and generally molest me.
The funny part was, as much as it looked like attraction, it wasn’t. It was something else. More on that soon.
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Part of it may have been attraction, part of it was being a somewhat celebrity; reality tv and tv in general allows us to get to some very cool people that we never even knew existed before. Ten year old girls huh, that’s so cute.
i would’ve humped your leg! haha just playing!
lol I knew girls would molest u someday.. =D
I’ve had girls do the same thing! Only they’re my friends.
Actually, I don’t know if it’s the same for you, but I grew up thinking that I was ugly/unattractive. I learned a few years ago that that wasn’t completely true. And when I finally faced up to the idea that I was somewhat pleasing to the eye, the world of the “beautiful” people struck me as almost completely fake. You’re handsome and now you’re famous so it must be even more striking to you than to me. It’s the sense of being a trophy now. Do people like me for what I have to say? Or is it because of what they can take from me. Notice that the second part of that was a statement and not a question. I just hope you never become bitter like me. I truly doubt you will, you have much more faith in people of the opposite sex than I. And social conditioning gives you more favorable chances at not being used for your status. But that’s a long conversation in and of itself.
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