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Hey guys-- i'm straight acting, still closeted, but want to meet like-minded folks. i'm a professor at a local university, and I would like to meet other gay, bi, closeted guys around my age who are in graduate school, or in the medical profession. I know you guys are out there........ i'm a down to earth, straight acting, intelligent, good looking guy just trying to find my way in the gay world. Friends first, maybe see where things go. Write back if this message resonates with your situation.
Peace,
MP
RESPONSE POSTED PUBLICLY (instead of privately sent to me)
Wow, it totally saddens me that you are restricting yourself to only graduate students and health care professionals! What a boring sheltered life you lead… I’m an early 30’s, educated professional, how do you know we wouldn’t hit off or have something to talk about or share? Wait, again, you stated that you only want graduate students and health care professionals so that excludes me… NICE!
By the way, yes, I am out there…. The difference between you and me – I’m comfortable with me. At least have something to hide, a wife or boyfriend but stop setting us back 30 years.
You’re supposed to be an educator, a mentor to our aging youth. Teach them to be upstanding citizens and open their minds. How can you do that when you’re not even one yourself!?
Does your wife/boyfriend know you’re posting here? Granted it’s in the “Strictly Platonic” section but we all know you’d prefer “M4M".
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What an interesting and angry response that guy posted. He sounds frustrated. It's funny how cyberspace is full of these angry responses, whereas you'd never be this harsh to a stranger in person. It's kind of like when people are driving, they are assholes to each other, but when people are walking they're much nicer. Cyberspace and cars provide a "cage" of protection in a person's mind which gives them the license to be nasty to another human. Well, one shred of agreement I might dig out of this angry response is that perhaps, Ziggy, you shouldn't restrict yourself to grad students and medical professionals, or Christians as you'd mentioned in prior posts. We often think we'll get along a lot better with people who do or practice similar things to us, but the flip side of that is that neither person grows or expands from such an interaction; It just becomes a mutual ball-washing (figuratively, and perhaps, later, literally) episode where you both go "uh-huh, I agree completely", and both emerge no better than before. On the other hand, if you step outside these familiar circles, you just might discover something new and fresh that surprises you. You'll be a stronger person once you arrive at the point where you don't need everyone around you to be in agreement with you, but instead can find some form of agreement with just about anyone.
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