was the "Low spark of high-heeled boys" more of a warning or just a sense of the times?
354966
I'd have to say both.\nHere's a quote from the best interpretation I've read...\n"'the low spark of high-heeled boys' is a metaphor for the forces that lay us low in life: selfishness, exploitation, hunger for wealth and power, and ultimately, death ... to name but a few. In spite of our ideals, we all have to stop being "children playing with toys" and to face these forces. And, as the final verse points out, we ourselves, even as victims of these ills, also are agents who bring them into the world."
235311
Yes. Unfortunately, a lot of young people think this is quite cool--mostly ignorant, not very intelligent, poorly educated, poor young people, frustrated and disinfranchised. Looking for someone to blame.\nThey are everywhere, and come out whenever there are enough of them to victimize people. I know drunken packs of them were terrorizing people in Hollywood late last year--usually gay couples or minorities. Usually, when people fought back, they ran.
137544
It's just a bit show-off time and a reinforcement of the social hierachy that seems to perpetuate schools, elevating the 'jocks/class clowns' and 'slutty popular bimbos' and depreciating anyone not in the former two groups.\n\nHowever it is fuel for many crappy American teen films... which i take pleasure in ripping to shreds...
545336
agreed.\n\nhowever, it's not the guys who are being followed as such, it's the mass-marketing done by the early followers that the religions have lasted so long. It's engrained in the culture and the fear of being the non-conformist, the guy who questions and doesn't blindly follow with the rest of the herd and becoming therefore an outcast was strong enough to ensure that entire nations have gone on to revere one person or the other without thinking too hard about it - and passed it on to their children of course.
964315
Yes, I've heard that phrase used to indicate that a man is gay.  I guess it refers to the habit of some guys, like Richard Simmons for example, to prance and dance around.  I like Richard Simmons, he's cool.
297608
I think this has something to do with being branded gay themselves.It's stigmatic, although very narrow minded, it's still out there all over the world. People are afraid of anything, or one in this case who are different and make quick assumptions.Hey, I had two great big trucky guys living across the road from me, both looked like rough rednecks, but they where very gay.Lovely guys though. Men are very egoccentric when it comes to their own manhood.
1017215
It's referring to kids that have had a rough upbringing and who have been exposed to things that they should not have witnessed at a young age.  So, these kids are more at risk to fall into a negative situation  than a kid that has had a so called normal upbringing.  It could also be due to the environment that they live in.
833649
I in no way have anything against gay men, but I do say that flamboyant, effeminate men don't sit well with me, and the whole flamboyant trend is really wearing thin. Now everything is 'fabulous', and it's pretty annoying. No offense to anyone, but that's how I feel.
408258
I'd have to agree with the last post. It seems that most men on the down low are there for a reason...becasue they don't feel that they can openly embrace that part of their sexuality.  I also really think it's a culture based thing, too.  I was doing some reading a while back, and you find a lot of this kind of thing in the Japanese, African American and Hispanic communities.  These communities tend to raise their boys to be strong manly men, and no gay love allowed!
89785
nah...\n\nPeople have been complaining that the current generation is worse than the past ones literally since Aristotle. Times changes, as do attitudes and fads. Sometimes the old folks (and that would probaby include me at 44) sometimes don't keep up with it and have a lot of nostalgia for what they *think* was there youth.
889835
Way too much positive reinforcement when you were a kid. Sounds like a Mr. Rogers moment taken to the extreme.
1068299
I did not do the 10, but a 20,  most were nothing like they used to be,  the "high school jock" was pumping gas at a gas station.\n\nThe high school trouble maker was now a carrer military man\n\nA high school nerd was now a police officer\n\nOf course a couple of your fanticy high school cheer leaders are plump and round.\n\nand of course some are who they were, the brain is a NASA scientiest or working as an enginer for IBM and so on.\n\nEveryone acts like how they loved each other back then, and of course they did not.\n\nLots of people trying to act more important than they really are, and others talking about that great event in high school which appears to be the highlight of thier live ( that is really sad)
446305
That is a stereotype started by jealous uggos with no physique.  If they were gay they would dance ONLY for men since I hear men make up most of the overall audience and tip better
234638
all of my school years were in the 70s and i remember wearing bell bottoms and long hair, buying cigarettes at the corner store for my mom with a note. we also got a whole bag of candy for a quarter. i remember the gas wars and also being terrified about growing up and having to wear gas masks to breath because thats what they told us in school. I thought the world was going to end soon because the grown ups were poluting the planet and the kids would be living on a dead planet wear the sun would burn us up through the ozone layer. I learned how to live in the moment though, skating , disco dancing, pushing limits.
813730
it's just your natural clock telling you you need to be up (I'm a 3:45 myself)..also horrible to consider, but is it possible that something really bad or scary happened to you when you were very young at that time? If so, you're body knows to be alert for danger at that time.
264113
You are talking about the now defunct "Queer as Folk". I Guess it depicts the lifestyle as it is. It would be wrong to assume that ALL gays are promiscuous, though.
1094600
I think it is a real sign that nothing is sacred anymore. It use to be that Male teachers were the perpetrators and now the women are jumping on the bandwagon.  It only makes news when women are the perpetrators than the men. I remember when a Flag corp female (16) married the band teacher (30) and it did not make the newspapers like "Chester the molester" or anything. The kids thought how gross, but that was it. \nToday being America still is the male dominated, chauvinistic society that it is. When women do the same things men have been doing all along, they pay a higher price.  Just check the jail sentences on Males who "dated" a female 15+yr old students, you won't find many.