Card Carrying Lesbian … What’s in your wallet?

I wonder what weight people actually place on the myspace relationship status thingy? If it reads “single” vs “in a relationship” does that affect whether or not you send them an add request? If it reads “swinger” do you think you have a better shot at getting lucky? Or do think, “Eeeewwww …. my Puritanical upbringing is rearing it’s ugly head and I can’t deal with free love people.”

Well, I just changed my status to “swinger” not because I am currently sleeping around. Because I’m not … at this moment partaking in all the yumminess that the LA lesbian scene offers up on a silver platter. But because I feel that it represents my mind set a little bit more accurately than simply “single.”

Simply “single” may suggest that, although not currently in an exclusive relationship, I may be prone to monogamy. Which I am not. I may be capable of it, but prone to it? … Not so much.

However, “swinger” suggests that I either am currently or potentially involved with more than one person at a time. It’s the potentiality of that outcome in which I am attempting to represent by a mere click under “edit profile” on my ever so important myspace page.

So I ask you, how much weight do you place on other people’s myspace status?

I know when one of my long time friend’s “single” status changed to “in a relationship” I was so excited I blogged about it. When other friends’ statuses changed in the other direction I was instantly saddened and worried about them. So to me, it can mean a lot.

Perhaps I’m getting too philosophical about this whole thing, it wouldn’t be the first time. But for me, my “swinger” status is more about mindset than actual behavior. Although I would hope that when someone says “single” they really are and not married, but feel single. That would suck.

If you haven’t noticed by now, I’m a stickler for truth in advertising.

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