BOYS WILL BE BOYS

I live in Manukau City, South of Auckland; New Zealand. We have the densest pacific island population of any country in the world. The given is that meeting other like minded queers like yourself is easy, since geographically we’re all in the same city. You would think it were that simple. The Polynesian Princes of south Auckland are as closeted as the gays in the NRL. They have refined their visibility to a passing fragrance of I WANNA FUCK YOU BUT I”M WITH HER. The problem with this metaphor is that it reeks of homos in south Auckland but these men have succeeded in making themselves invisible.

So therein lays the problem of trying to engage and understand a type of man that exists only in theory. I imagine this type of man as wanting to express his sexual fluidity and attraction to the same sex however being stunted by his contradicting physicality, one of which is typically hetronormative and in gender specific terms what is appropriate for him to conform to i.e. “I am built in the manner of a man that is only biologically compatible with a significant other of the opposite sex”. This belief system is made a mantra that affirms a masculine stereotype and a gender ideal that is perpetuated, driven and motivated both sociologically and politically by a western heterosexual statuesque and moral majority.

The art works posted on this blog are inspired by this idea. This is JERRY THE FA’AFAFINE he is pleased to have finally found you and met you...


FOB MAN LOVE THEORY

























ROUDY_SPARX IN CONVERSATION WITH BULLET_PROOF [AN NZ DATING TRANSCRIPT]

BULLET_PROOF >

"Thanks.

PS. Whos in the pic with you..."

ROUDY_SPARXX >

"was my boi... but he is over... tooo young in his thinking... tooo hideously inadequate.. cute but boring... fun till it became work.... fuck em and feed em... the ultimate fob love theory. you do those two things and they think they love you.... tragic. dimensionless.

now its on to the next one..."

BULLET_PROOF >

"Interesting.

Selling the dream here man...not the reality."

ROUDY_SPARXX >

"the reality of? qualify..."

BULLET_PROOF >

"Reality of fob man love.

Doesnt work...for the most part".

ROUDY_SPARXX >

"hahahaha its historically positioned throughout Pacific culture to fail.. the reason... failure to reconcile their internal conflicts with their external realities... In my opinion... fagots. liars. and cowards. Harsh words I know. but ultimately the truth. that is the reality of fob man love hahaha cheers for the phrase FOBMANLOVE.. tweet lol xx"

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