"Macho, macho man"
ma·chis·mo (mä-chēz'mō)
A strong or exaggerated sense of masculinity stressing attributes such as physical courage, virility, domination of women, and aggressiveness. (The word macho literally translates as "male", but is applied primarily to animals in this sense.) Thus, most machistas believe firmly in the superiority of men over women.
So there, you can grab your own conclusions.
So, even when I firmly believe in feminine liberation (in here it is a statement you make not something you feel it as a given), I have grown up, to a certain extent, believing in the traditional roles of males in our society.
Now… where does this lead me.
I came back from a hard partying weekend in Mexico. Slept 6 hours in 3 days.
Friday night, after having ridiculously spent $200 (thankfully divided among 4 people) in a really boring bar, a group of us, wanting to have a midnight snack (well more like at 2 am) conformed by street tacos jumped into a car and went on the quest.
The driver was a good friend of my boyfriend who declared himself proudly homosexual 4 years ago, really nice person… my boyfriend’s description of him was “he is gay not a crazy bitch”, and the fact that he was gay was not a big deal for anyone there (which also among mexicans that can be a big issue), we are world citizens, everyone is invited!
So he parks the car near old town Guadalajara, and says… “before tacos, let’s get drunk… so here is a cheap place to compensate all we spent”. We enter this place called “Circus club” the description of the place… dodgy…. REALLY dodgy… even Digs and Dody would have found it dodgy without entering it (and that’s to say a lot).
First, on the entrance… I got discriminated… hahaha at first I thought it was an age problem… then I realized… our friend had to talk to the guy in the front door to let the other 2 women, my boyfriend and I in. I was wondering why… its not like I look 17 anymore… I noticed why when I saw a rather “contemporary” picture of a man in the door.
We walked up to the main floor, where the bar was… and it was all men. Everyone… the pure macho experience… only the other way around… around 10 more women… the waitress (which I am still in doubt) and the 3 of us. Great music… danced like crazy… but it was shocking.
It was my first encounter with an entire gay community. Looking at them relaxed, doing their “thing”… at some point, almost an orgy… hooking up in every corner… old and young, small and tall, slim and fat… even our gay friends would later say: “Sodom and Gomorrah in there my friends…”
Definitely, beer was cheap: 2 x $1. Tacos came later. “Carne al pastor” preparing my thoughts to the next 2 hours of sleep ahead.
- Sorry if anyone found this post offensive… its all about experience-
1 Comments:
I see that Mexicans do things differently as us Caribbeans... you se, "tacos" (or eating) MUST come first, and THEN you get drunk... In this warm weather you need a good foundation to hold the amount of alcohol that you will take... There, my two cents ;) Esteban
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