Why The Bay Sucks

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Just kidding. . .Actually the Bay is a great place.  It's the people that I have a problem with.  And I don't have anyone to talk to about these things because naturally the folks from here are defensive.  So, I'm just gonna rant!

1.  The people are polite but not friendly.  Californians freak out if you talk to them and they don't know you.  This makes it really hard to meet people.  In fact, I might not even be writing this blog if I could actually meet some fun loving people. 

2.  Too much fruitiness.  Fruity capoeira, fruity yoga, fruity meditation retreats.  Fruity educators for social justice workshops.  Fruity empowering women of color conferences.  Why can't we do stuff without the fruitiness?  We don't need to love each other and hold hands and look into each others' eyes and make collages and draw pictures all the time.  No more feathers!  No more pillows!  Fuck the Fruitiness! 

3.  Too much whining and complaining. 'It's foggy!', 'It's raining'.  'It was SO hot'.  Fog never killed anyone.  Neither did rain.  And the 'SO hot' day was at most 80 degrees of dry heat.  Nut up people!  That brings me to my next complaint.

4. Too much softness.  Again--Nut up people!  You won't die if you have to walk two blocks to the store. 

5.  Too many people who think they are down but they are really not.  Too many white people who think they aren't racist but they are.  Big newsflash people--everyone is racist!  This is the United States of America.

6.  Not enough sabor.  Where is the flavah!?  Show off a bit.  Don't be so mellow.  Be loud. Be vivacious.  Let the world know who you are. 

7.  The Bay is supposed to be open-minded but it's only open-minded if you agree with the predominant thought of the left.  Things are so PC out here.  An extreme example, you can't say 'go straight' for fear of offending gay people.  I felt a lot more free to say what I thought in NYC where anyone can say anything no matter how offensive it is.  

8.  Too much 'niceness'.  People feel the need to be 'nice' or 'polite' all the time.  This is actually very hard to do so then the 'niceness' leads to passive-aggresivity and flakiness.   Just be real.  Be direct.  It saves time.  This brings me to my next point. 

9.  Too much time spent talking really slowly.  Why does it take people a whole paragraph to say something a New Yorker would've said in one sentence?  My patience is wearing really thin.

10.  Too 'Green'.  I want to save the planet as much as anyone.  I recycle.  I reuse items when I can.  I try to limit the number of bags I use when I buy items at a store.  But people in the Bay take being 'Green' to extremes.   No, I'm not going  to ride my bicycle from North Oakland to Fruitvale  to get to work everyday.   And I'm not  going to become  a vegetarian.  Eating meat is a privilege that I enjoy.  In fact a lot of the  stuff  that I'm complaining about is built on privilege that goes totally unacknowledged.  I think this is why it bothers me so much.