The difficulty of being an honest and modern woman simultaneously

By Stanley Collymore

It’s over a year now that we became close friends and started

going out together. And though there has never been any

sexual intimacy between the two of us apart from the

self-evidently from my personal perspective all too

infrequent instances of us just kissing each other,

when clearly as my body language and additionally far

from subtle supplementary ardent and encouraging

indications on those precise occasions, together

with others that manifestly and conclusively

suggested that I wanted much more than

what you were customarily offering;

regrettably, on your part, nothing

remotely of substantial sexual

interest to me ever happened.

Concluding, therefore, that it was only friendship

that you exclusively desired from me I began

to weigh up my likely personal options

despite my being psychologically,

emotionally and physically, though unilaterally

it clearly seemed to me, steadfastly loyal to

you. For there were emotions in me that

were unquestionably in need of being

satisfied and that I couldn’t morally

contend with while I was still in

an emotional liaison with you.

Yet your churlish, immature, ludicrous and utterly spiteful

response, when I courageously took matters into my

own hands and opened up to you about how I

actually felt as regards our truthfully non-

existent private relationship, was to cruelly brand me

an incorrigible harlot, earnestly on the incessant

look out for any convenient and amenable

man! Me? Of all persons! And what a

disgustingly queer thing for you to

callously say! Considering my

extremely tenuous position

being in situ in a wholly

missing, heterosexual

connection with you.

© Stanley V. Collymore

11 November 2019.

Author’s Remarks:

A most queer response indeed on the part of this particular cad I must say, using that aforementioned adjective of “queer” in its authentic original and still appropriate, I feel, etymological meaning. This despite its vile corruption by the plethora of thoroughly intellectually challenged and deeply dumbed-down simpletons and charlatans across the English speaking world.

And most particularly so throughout the entire United Kingdom, and who routinely and persistently embarrassingly abuse the English language, and invariably the only language they know or will ever learn, for their own disgustingly prurient, perverse and idiotic purposes.