Don't Judge Me

I've recently written another new song called "Don't Judge Me", which I practiced for the first time yesterday with my band Laissez-Fayre. This is one of my most personal songs that I've written in a long time which deals with the hardships and offences I've faced when coming out to others that I am a nudist, and the problems that nudists face from some areas of society where having beaches closed down and being dumped on by self-righteous religious nutcases is concerned.

The most ironic thing about this song is that it is written in a style of music that I don't usually listen to, which is country & western. However it sounds more like an old-school C&W number rather than something that Billy Ray Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban or Garth Brooks would write. I mainly wrote it in this vein because the majority of nudists (at least in Australia and America anyway) are C&W fans and in their 40's - 60's and grew up with that type of music.

For people who judge nudists, I usually think that a lot of things they say about them is unfounded. To write us all off as being swingers, child molesters, or into incest is very off-the-mark. Yes, there are some nudists who are like that but please - the majority of nudists want nothing to do with them. We've become a culture where a person is judged due to 'guilty by association'. The same thing happened to Jesus when he kept company with the societal rejects rather than the elitist leaders like the Sadduccees and the Pharisees.

Regretfully, the picture has not changed. Even in today's so-called age of enlightenment, people (especially teens and young adults) are still very judgemental and will actively vilify or ridicule what they do not understand. Being a nudist is one of those things. I find it hypocritical that those same people would not dare speak out against gay and lesbian people, or dark skinned people, so what does it have to say about our human nature? Then again, I also think that nudists need to share the blame when they closet themselves and refuse to tell and educate other people about their lifestyle.

You can read the lyrics to the song on the hyperlink at the beginning of this article. Your feedback would be most appreciated. :)