The Gay Thread

[blueerica]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

...and the Awesome Mom of the Week award goes to this lady!

She sho' is!

[alphabassettgrrl]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

...and the Awesome Mom of the Week award goes to this lady!

Oh, yeah! Can we clone her?

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

...and the Awesome Mom of the Week award goes to this lady!

Warner Bros. sent them an awesome care package.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

Warner Bros. sent them an awesome care package.

I just got a little teary reading that !

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

...and the Awesome Mom of the Week award goes to this lady!

But the awesome cleric of the year most definitely does not go to her pastor! An epilogue to "Boo's" story.

[innerSpaceman]

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.

[Alex]

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.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

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.

What he said.

There's a word for this - stereotyping.

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

[Chernabog]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

What he said.

There's a word for this - stereotyping.

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

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.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Chernabog

Again, it just depends on the stereotype.

I assume the mechanism on which it depends is "whether I engage in it or not"?