Gay men are often rich: Why?

Gay men seem unusually abundant in the stratosphere of higher society and college campuses. Has anyone else noticed this but me?

All the brutish men that I am surrounded by, here in the USA's lower class , are all vehemently opposed to the gays, and yet, once you start meeting smart people, like readers, writers and scientists and all that, suddenly everyone is gay or knows someone who is. I once remember reading something from a woman, a college educated one, who had gone so far in college as to get her Master's degree or her Ph.D. (whatever the hell that is) and she remarked that she could never find a suitable husband, because all the men she met who had the same education as her , were gay. Or at least a good three quarters of them.

Why is this? i often wonder. Why are smart men gay in this society? Does it have something to do with the fact that, as the low class baboons in my town here would tell you, reading and becoming smart makes one effeminate and weak, "like a girl" ... or is it instead something else?

I think its something else, personally, and I think it has a lot to do with the inequality of women, actually. I know that my opinion on the gay movement, especially since I hail from the devastated (and very homophobic) working class as I keep stressing, is not wanted, and will perhaps be considered wrong by someone, but what I feel is that the inequality of women --especially at the higher levels of society--has led to the proliferation of gay men in said stratosphere. Basically, the way it works is simple: Just like that college educated woman with the Ph.D said it was difficult to find a man of her same "intelligence", the truth is that for men who have particularly intellectual leanings, finding a woman can be not just challenging, but sometimes downright impossible. There are very few such women to go around, just to be blunt.

This isn't because women are stupid, of course, but rather because, due to the inequality, women have often been trained to act stupid, or... they have just never been led int the direction of intellectualism in the first place. Catch my drift? They never even had a chance to be smart.  Young women are often said to be beautiful, even if they are not ,  and are not often encouraged to sit in a dark room studying physics or science or literature for hours on end.  This would seem like a very grim life for a young woman, don't you think? Usually young women are encouraged to mingle with the world, to get outside, to be physical, to see the sunshine.  They tend to have a very pronounced sense of who they are in "reality", that a man -- believe it or not -- just doesn't often feel its necessary to have. Especially a man who wants to be the next Albert Einstein, discovering the Theory of Relativity.

Consider the fact that I have sometimes gone weeks without bothering to look at myself in the mirror, and you might start to understand what I'm saying here. The physical world for me, and what I look like, and what my body is, often means little to nothing to me. I'm reading literature, I'm studying history, maybe I'm doing complex calculus equations, I'm trying to finish this book about wormholes, I'm painting...whatever the case is, i'm not thinking of my body.

For women--especially middle class and lower class women who weren't dreaming of being astronauts and physicists-- i feel this is all very different. Unlike myself, these women weren't encouraged, at the age of 12, to sit inside and read the entire bibliography of HG Wells. Naturally, in our own modern time, some might have been, yes I get it, but the numbers don't compare to how many boys are encouraged to do the same thing.

Again, for a young girl to sit inside like that, reading, on a sunny day, there's something that almost seems "sadder", versus a young awkward boy. Just think, for example, of a pregnant woman in a 23 hour a day maximum security prison cell, versus a strong, masculine tattooed man. Who do you feel worse for - who seems more out of place to you? The woman, I do reckon.

Women have been raised to think excessively of their body, in a way that even those tattooed brothers of mine with big muscles in the prisons, oddly enogh, do not. Women are very much in reality, thinking of their bodies, from day one. In some sense, they appear to have a far more intimate relationship with it, than I do as a boy. This relationship with the body seems to function both physically and culturally, negatively and positively. Women bleed each month. I don't. Women have breasts that, so I'm told, ache and all that. I don't. Women are often showered with compliments that revolve around their body. They are considerably more likely to be noticed when they enter a room. Me and my awkward looking geeky friends, on the other hand, might as well have been ghosts, much of the time. It reminds me of the Bob Dylan song about heartbreak: "Sometimes I think no one ever saw me here at all." he says. In fact, consider the idea that I've been reading a number of male authors for years now, and yet still have no idea whatsoever what they looked like. Eveything I love about them is all the stuff that was in their head, nothing else. How often is this the same case for women? Rarely, in my opinion. From day one, they are taught to focus heavily on the physical. 9/10 of the important women I can think of in my head, I know extremely well what they look like. They are almost imrprisoned,  actually, in the physical realm.

As a result of this prison sentence, the temptation a young up and coming woman has to skip out on studying physics on Friday and Saturday night, in exchange for a weekend at the club with happy friends, would seem much greater in scope, than it would for a young, oddball man who worships Einstein and Kip Thorne. After all, lets be honest: Even an ugly woman can probably experience much more success than a marginally attractive man, at a club, any day of the week. I think nearly every girl I knew in high school and college had a period when the club became a thing, even if only for a brief period of time. My geeky male friends, on the other hand, were mortified of the place.

And so, as I was saying before, what has happened as a resut of this is that many men, myself included, find many women rather intolerable, because they so clearly haven't read as many "physics books" as we have, and the idea of doing something like, say, marrying them, has become an unfathomable one.

It's not because they are women that we find them intolerable, however, but rather because most of them don't really have much to talk about with us,  so trying to make them a prominent character in our lives, becomes a bit problematic. For well-to-do men who have university degrees and all of that, I think conversation and shared interests with their partner is probably pretty important, especially since many upper class people have fewer kids, so it's not like they have that detail to coalesce around and keep the relationship going for.

Therefore, you see, upper class men have developed this culture of homosexuality, at a far more rapid and pronounced pace, than any other social class. Are some people gay by birth? Sure, I'm certain they are. But is it also the case that I believe others are gay, because they felt rather limited in choice, and wanted a wider range of personality options? Yes. Absolutely.

I can personally confirm that I became interested in at least studying the gay lifestyle, after discovering that a number of my faovrite intellectual authors, from the upper class, like William Burroughs, Gore Vidal, Oscar Wilde, and others, were gay.

I saw that these men had been involved with the gay lifestyle not just for the sex, but often also for the intellectualism that it seemed many gay men share with one another. It was, admittedly, an extremely different perspective for me, when first I came across it. Many people in our own time seem to not remember the roots of the gay movement (Gore Vidal was one of the first openly gay authors published in the USA, For example) and they especially don't seem to remember how much more inequality there was, for a man like Gore Vidal to live around ,who was born in 1925. Imagine him as a young intellectual in the 1940s. How many highly intellectual women do you seriously think were around for him to talk with? I'm sorry, but they were few and far between. Ivy league colleges did not even start accepting women until it was almost 1970. Harvard, where Burroughs went to school, and where Vidals life work was sent upon his death, did not admit women until 1977. Who were they supposed to talk to from the womens room? What on earth were they supposed to talk about? These men, to me, seemed to gravitate towards a gay lifestyle in that time period, because they had a thirst for deep conversation , not necessarily just because of sex, as I say. Burroughs, for example, is almost downright impossible to imagine,  in a room full of women from that time period. He literally almost seems alien.  

Take a look at the low class again, however, and you'll see very quickly that they have hardly ever based their loving relationships around similar interests or conversations -- hence they don't really understand, as much, why the gay movement is so prominent as it is, in the upper class. To many a  lower class man, a gay relationship sounds absolutely absurd, because men aren't considered physically beautiful, more often than not. Sounds funny, right? It  is a big deal.  When everything in your world revolves around the physical, and especially when your world is so grim and dark as the world of the working class is, why on earth would you not actively pursue something physically beautiful, like our society allows a woman to be, with all of her nail paints and her makeup etc?

Lower class people make their living, usually, by the strength of their body, which is all that they often have to get by on. The physical world is very important for them -- the abstract hardly exists-- and so they, naturally, put a lot of emphasis on it, and often choose everything based on looks alone,.

It's hard, you see, for an  uneducated man, to find fault  or become bored with an uneducated woman who has nothing of substance to say, in other words. He just sort of thinks this is how everyone is, by default. He himself doesn't have much to say either, after all, and beyond that, he doesn't even realize that there are women out there who can do calculus and all that. Many working class men I know seem to get into marriages with women, here in the trenches, almost expecting them to be helpless, as though they themselves are children. There is very little expected of a woman down here,in a certain sense, beyond looking good, fixing some food, and , well, you know, "keeping quiet". The idea that she should bring interesting conversation to the table is, again, literally absurd in the low class mindset. IT's not even at all expected, the way it so clearly is, in an upper class relationship. If anything, a lower class man would find a woman smarter than him, or even close to as smart as him, downright insulting. It's something he would actively seek to avoid, I should think, because it seems like she'd bring a lot of problems to the table.

As a result, women down here have even more reason to always continue what I call the "Peggy Bundy" act. They think it is in their favor, their parents think it is in her favor, and so the vicious cycle, of producing another generation of women who are taught to avoid books and go to the club, continues on yet again...

One might even, at this point, present the argument that the entire gay movement has all commenced in order to, maybe, finally balance things out, once and for all. The reason why is simple: The more gay men there are, the less likely it is for a woman to have anything to do at the proverbial club on the weekends. Therefore, with each generation now, where it seems more and more gay men are popping up, there are also more women who are not as distracted by being desired, or being called beautiful. Shoot all of this forward 3 or 4 generations, or maybe beyond, and what does it seem like you'll eventually get? Well, to me, it would seem like you'll finally arrive at a place where there are just as many awkward geeky women,  who avoid sunshine and cute clothes, in favor of lab coats and dark laboratories, as there are awkward geeky men.  See what I mean? Hope so....

---- 2018, ANNO DOMINO....

The last Pirate on Earth.