It's just normal Japanese conversation
Stopped to get gas in the capital city yesterday. One guy put in the hose and wiped the windows down. Another, seeing that I was most likely an English speaker, struck up a conversation. Fairly normal, where are you from, what's your job, do you watch sports, you look strong, etc. Then he asked if I was an S, as in satis... sadi...
I said, rather incredulously, "S and M?"
I don't know if he didn't know the term or didn't hear me clearly, but continued to try to pronounce "sadism." When I told him that word, he said, "Yes! I am S. You look like M."
I just laughed and told him that I guessed so. He then said "mata" (next time), and I drove off laughing.
The thing is, I don't think he was gay or hitting on me. He also wasn't being skeevy or really forward in his manner. It was just a case of a lack of a filter because he was talking to a gaijin.
I'm also not entirely certain of whether he thought that was the only range of sexuality that people had, that everyone was divided into either S or M. I'll have to propose that as the new gender binary and see how far it gets me.
In other news, it's not all that warm here. 19 and cloudy, breezy. Enough so that I wore jeans and socks instead of shorts and flip flops (hey, it's summer vacation for another two days). But I've had the first short-skirted senior of the season run into the room announcing "samui!" Nice to know, I suppose, that it's not just New Englanders who complain about the cold, despite living in The Land of Near Eternal Winter. We just generally wait until the thermometer dips below 65 to do it.
I said, rather incredulously, "S and M?"
I don't know if he didn't know the term or didn't hear me clearly, but continued to try to pronounce "sadism." When I told him that word, he said, "Yes! I am S. You look like M."
I just laughed and told him that I guessed so. He then said "mata" (next time), and I drove off laughing.
The thing is, I don't think he was gay or hitting on me. He also wasn't being skeevy or really forward in his manner. It was just a case of a lack of a filter because he was talking to a gaijin.
I'm also not entirely certain of whether he thought that was the only range of sexuality that people had, that everyone was divided into either S or M. I'll have to propose that as the new gender binary and see how far it gets me.
In other news, it's not all that warm here. 19 and cloudy, breezy. Enough so that I wore jeans and socks instead of shorts and flip flops (hey, it's summer vacation for another two days). But I've had the first short-skirted senior of the season run into the room announcing "samui!" Nice to know, I suppose, that it's not just New Englanders who complain about the cold, despite living in The Land of Near Eternal Winter. We just generally wait until the thermometer dips below 65 to do it.