I concur!

She sho' is!

To go back to Shirvell for a moment (though I agree Scooby Doo mom is rad) - -

Nope. Have to agree with SM here. Alex's point is apples to oranges. No one in the gay blogosphere said he was gay until he was interviewed on TV and came off as GAY and set off the world's collective gaydar not simply from the circumstances (which set the Gaydar to "scan mode"), but from his speech patterns and body language (which set the Gaydar to "High Alert").


If he's a straight man, then perhaps the source of his cyber bullying propensities is that he was constantly beat up in school for being such a total fag. But more than likely, he's gay, it's completely relevant and in fact important to the subject matter at hand, and the world's collective gaydar readings are pretty accurate.

I'd call bull**** on that but I doubt it would do any good.

Somehow I doubt that Rand Paul saying 'we can tell by looking at him he's a faggot' would be taken so well with a shrug and a "well of course you can tell just by looking."

I'm not saying you're wrong. You might be, but without any actual evidence it is just ad hominem that contributes nothing to the topic.

Maybe he's one of those metrosexuals.

What he said.

There's a word for this - stereotyping.

Isn't this type of behavior what we're supposed to be avoiding?

No. To put a fine but pertinent point on it, it's the type of behavior you're supposed to be avoiding. ("you're" as in "you straight folk").


Not all gays see it this way, but I do. Black people can use the "N" word all the damn day long, and I can say "fag" and "that's so gay" with abandon. And I can call Andrew Shirvell a mincing fairy faggot because he behaves so stereotypically like one. But perhaps it's less pc if straight people do the same.


Gays have a certain licence. Oh, I admit it reeks of hypocrisy and double-standards and is certainly far from politically correct. But I for one am not one to adhere to pc uber alis.


Perhaps it takes one to know one - but when gays say Shirvell is a fag, I just take that as authoritative rather than bigoted. Straights' Mileage May Vary. :p

Not in my book, and I really think it depends on the stereotype. Stereotypes come from somewhere. A guy can love Cher, liberally use the phrase "girl!", work as a hairdresser AND be straight. But you can safely assume he's gay unless proven otherwise, instead of the other way around.

That's pretty much how gaydar works, and why Europeans throw off my gaydar bigtime -- I'm not up and up on how gay europeans stereotypically act that is different from straight ones.

On the other hand, we shouldn't safely assume that an Arab is a terrorist unless proven otherwise. Again, it just depends on the stereotype.

And yes, for the record, I think that Shirvell is a closeted homo. BIG TIME. And I got that from watching the Daily Show segment, not just because he had a bizarre blog. When you are gay, you are really, really attuned to this stuff. It isn't meant as a slight that he's gay, it is meant simply to show that he's a hypocrite.