Men's Group

It's a good one.

Personally, I eschew (gezundheit!) labels in general so I don't get too wrought out about it, but I sort of figured out my political outlook when I was 12 and haven't done a whole lot of seismic changing in that regard, since then. I've driven around with left-wing bumper stickers on my cars, although probably more in the past when I was driving a hippiemobile to Dead shows, so I guess I never really got too hung up on the self-labeling-- or worrying about it.

It's funny that you say you get perceived as a right-wing, club for growth type. It's been a long time since this stuff percolated in my consciousness-- one of the things I like about the Pac NW is just the general stay-out-of-each-other's-face ness that seems to be woven into the fabric of the environment -- but back in the day when I was cycling between being a longhair and a shorthair, I used to laugh at how I could cut my hair and then all of a sudden my credentials as a hippie were called into question. Like suddenly the people smoking the joint next to me at Shoreline thought I was a narc.