Hi, I'm Jamie. I'm not the easiest person to get to know, so you're just going to have to bear with me. I have no interest in making myself accessible to you. I like a lot of different things for a lot of different reasons, and I don't feel any particular need to reconcile any of them, so please don't try to pigeonhole me. I am not a "type." I don't care about fashion - you don't create yourself from the outside in. I'm old enough to appreciate the irony of self-professed non-conformists who all look exactly the same. I want to meet real people, not scenesters. Be yourself and be honest - you'll be found out in the long run.
I've been a vegetarian since I was 15, and feel that if you couldn't kill it then you shouldn't be eating it. At the same time, you have every right to eat meat and I'm not going to tell you how to live your life or what you should think. I'm not one of those people who harangues meat-eaters about animal cruelty and factory farms when they're trying to eat a hamburger. No one likes a food-fascist.
I'm not a religious person, but I don't care if you are, as long as you don't try to push Jesus in my face. If you're cool with me being a godless atheist, then I'm cool with whatever you are.
I'm not liberal or conservative and reject the entire left vs. right paradigm of American politics. I'm politically libertarian, which essentially means that I want the government to go away, stop stealing my money, and leave me the fuck alone. The Republican and Democratic parties can go suck my cock; I have no use for either of them.
I'm gay, and it's both a fundamental part of who I am and a total irrelevancy, depending on how you look at it. I am, by nature, opposed to collectivist thinking, and I want to be taken on my own terms, as an individual: I don't claim to represent anyone other than myself, and I speak for myself rather than as some kind of ambassador for the "gay community." I'm perfectly comfortable with who I am, but at the same time, I don't feel compelled to slap a rainbow sticker on my car or loudly proclaim my sexuality from atop a parade float. There's nothing wrong with that, mind you, but it's not who I am. To each his own. I really don't care what other people think about me or my "lifestyle" - all I ask is that people mind their own business and stay out of my face.
