{"id":5318,"date":"2013-08-01T04:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2013-08-02T07:56:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T11:56:53","slug":"can-i-wear-engineer-boots-without-looking-like-i-am-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=5318","title":{"rendered":"Can I Wear Engineer Boots Without Looking Like I Am Gay?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, believe it or not, here it goes again:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Engineergay.jpg?resize=584%2C90\" alt=\"Engineergay\" width=\"584\" height=\"90\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Engineergay.jpg?w=585&amp;ssl=1 585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Engineergay.jpg?resize=300%2C46&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Engineergay.jpg?resize=150%2C23&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Engineergay.jpg?resize=500%2C77&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>Question via Google directed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=3982\" target=\"_blank\">to a post on this blog<\/a>, &#8220;can i wear engineer boots without looking like i am gay&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em>Answer I would love to give:  No.  If you have to ask such a question, come out of the closet and just admit you&#8217;re gay, then pull on your engineer boots and be done with it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now, back to reality.<\/p>\n<p>My real reaction:  Seriously?  What is it with some people who think that wearing a certain type of boots &#8212; engineer, harness, or brightly colored cowboy boots &#8212; means he is gay?  <\/p>\n<p>Do guys who wear engineer boots also display certain gay stereotypes more frequently?  Not.<\/p>\n<p>Do guys who wear flip-flops display certain gay stereotypes more (or less) than guys who wear engineer boots?  Not.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I have no idea where people get silly ideas like this in their heads.  Get over it.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=1059\" target=\"_blank\">Read this past post &#8212; &#8220;Engineer Boots Gay&#8221;<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>Some men wear engineer boots.  Some of those men are gay.  That&#8217;s it.  If you are afraid of &#8220;looking gay&#8221; by choosing to wear engineer boots, then you have many more &#8220;issues&#8221; to deal with that go way beyond what this blog is about.  Perhaps some professional help from a psychiatrist may be in order.<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  wear engineer boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, believe it or not, here it goes again: Question via Google directed to a post on this blog, &#8220;can i wear engineer boots without looking like i am gay&#8221; Answer:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineer-boots","category-gay-issues"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}