{"id":7755,"date":"2014-08-25T05:07:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T09:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=7755"},"modified":"2019-04-10T07:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T11:26:56","slug":"light-in-the-loafers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=7755","title":{"rendered":"Light in the Loafers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ridepostblog-300x236.jpg?resize=300%2C236\" alt=\"Ridepostblog\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ridepostblog.jpg?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ridepostblog.jpg?resize=150%2C118&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ridepostblog.jpg?resize=381%2C300&amp;ssl=1 381w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ridepostblog.jpg?w=700&amp;ssl=1 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I just about died laughing at the homophobe on a website forum that linked to my website referring to me as being &#8220;light in the loafers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That expression&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;dates back to the mid 1950s and is generally used as a pejorative reference to a gay man.  (Term reference here.)<\/p>\n<p>What really made me laugh at the poster&#8217;s homophobia were three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Light in the loafers&#8221; could reference &#8220;the image is the stereotyped effeminate male, tripping along.&#8221;  The stereotyping is classic homophobia.<\/li>\n<li>Me, wear loafers?  You gotta be kidding!  No way!<\/li>\n<li>Quoting from the text on the forum site, &#8220;This guy seems light in his loafers some leather fetish, but seems to cover reviews of boots rather well.&#8221;  My response:  I&#8217;d like to see the bozo who wrote that to say that to a biker in a biker bar, or for that matter, to attendees of IML or MAL.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This type of stuff used to bother me, but it does not any more.  There are a lot of small- and narrow-minded people out there who use on-line forums to vent frustrations, jealousies, or nervousness, as well as attempt to hide behind a veil of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s okay &#8230; I have been called worse.  Sticks and stones and all that.<\/p>\n<p>The guy who posted not one but two links to my website did not realize that he did me a big favor:  more links to my website from external sources drives up the rankings from search engines.  So go ahead &#8212; link to me.  Helps my website grow in being found from web searches.  Thanks a lot!<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  pull on your leathers, solid biker boots, and ride with a laugh of pity for small-minded dudes who have nothing &#8230; nothing &#8230; going for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just about died laughing at the homophobe on a website forum that linked to my website referring to me as being &#8220;light in the loafers.&#8221; That expression&#8230;<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/7755","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=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}