# A love of flowers is gay? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 22, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012 "2005-05-22T23:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/1 "2005-05-22T23:54:35Z")
I am a manly type of guy, nobody would think I’m female. I went to the local nursery and bought about 100.00$ worth of flowers to plant in the back yard. The young woman behind the counter said that your wife made a good selection. ? I said that I’m not married anymore, I chose these myself (feeling proud of myself). Oh! she said, I thought you might be gay since you are so quiet and love flowers. HUH? WOW just wow. This is mainly light hearted mods, If the pit is better please move. That really was the first time that I ever used the :eek: ever. man. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/2 "2005-05-22T23:59:59Z")
Gee, ya think she’s got some narrow-minded notions? eeeeesh ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/3 "2005-05-23T00:27:11Z")
Flowers are cool. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/4 "2005-05-23T00:31:06Z")
A man who likes flowers? Now, that’s hot! But, what your neighbour said was rather mean and horridly stereotypical. Sheesh!! ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/5 "2005-05-23T00:32:22Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > A man who likes flowers? Now, that’s hot! But, what your neighbour said was rather mean and horridly stereotypical. Sheesh!! Oops, I meant the lady behind the counter, not your neighbour. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/6 "2005-05-23T01:18:47Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > Oops, I meant the lady behind the counter, not your neighbour. :smack: lol I knew what you meant devil. It was just a weird time. Twilight zone moment. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/7 "2005-05-23T01:27:32Z")
How can loving female sex organs be gay? ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/8 "2005-05-23T01:37:29Z")
I’m a plant guy too. When I was on Jeopardy, I ran a category on plants and flowers. Not only did Alex comment on it, but all my friends gave me a rash of shit after the show was aired because I knew my plants so well. I thought not knowing any of the Ballet questions would have helped, but no such luck. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/9 "2005-05-23T02:29:13Z")
So, liking flowers is gay? Well, whooda thunk it. Jeez–I’d better tell all the men in the Plant Biology, Plant Pathology, and Horticulture programs here at my university that the jig is up. A bunch of those guys are totally passing for straight. Some of them are dating women, some of them are looking to date women, and some of them are even married! With children, even! But we know the real deal with them. Guys who like flowers–they’re gay. Gay, gay, gay. They might claim otherwise, they might have whole lives built on the illusion of their heterosexuality…but now they’ve been unmasked by a humble cashier. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/10 "2005-05-23T02:55:44Z")
Men who like flowers are gay? Gee, that will be news to my husband, the father of our two children, who does all the gardening at our place. For whom I just got a huge floral arrangement for his birthday, and he was most appreciative. Some folks is just ignorant. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/11 "2005-05-23T03:20:36Z")
You, my friend, have been the victim of a “duh” moment. Pretty presumptious of the cashier. Too bad you didn’t say, “I may be a hetero that loves flowers but you’ll always be stupid!” Somebody better notify the gay community, fercryinoutloud. Some of them may _really_ may be straight if they don’t like flowers! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/12 "2005-05-23T03:36:04Z")
Well the majority of professional horticulturist out there are men. So go figure. Now as a man, if one of MY buddies were to profess his love of flowers; I might have to give him a rib’n or two. But to just automaticaly asssume someone’s gay just because they like flowers is beyond stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/13 "2005-05-23T03:43:55Z")
Pepe Le Pew loves flowers. You callin’ Pepe Le Pew gay? ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/14 "2005-05-23T04:09:01Z")
If I wasn’t the shy type, I would have replied, “Well, how about I buy you dinner tonight and let me get the chance to prove to you that I’m not?”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![kaiwik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaiwik/32/3978_2.png) [@kaiwik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaiwik)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/15 "2005-05-23T04:22:22Z")
My FIL used to get so mad at me because I involved my husband (who, by the way, **wanted** to be involved) with my flower gardening. “I raised my son to be a fisherman, not a farmer!” he would say, with a few expletives added for emphasis. I just bought my husband a flowering crabapple tree for Father’s Day, because he has never seen a flowering tree before. He is delighted! ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/16 "2005-05-23T04:42:19Z")
This is a common stereotype. But flower arranger was the usual gay occupation joked about in the schoolyard growing up. “Hey, lookit Massiv with his little lunchbox…what a mincing florist! Bahaha” But I don’t know that anyone actually believes it. I know 2 perfectly straight florists, too. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/17 "2005-05-23T04:53:17Z")
What kinda plants you get? We just got a bunch of sedums and thyme - they’re working out really well in our low-maintenance yard. I also got a very nice dark red asiatic lily - I love lilies. So beautiful, and so tough. Just like roses. Whoda thunk that roses are hardy, low maintenance plants? I just thought of something - I make my husband go plant and flower shopping with me, and we discuss all the plants we’d like to have in the yard. I’m not turning him gay, am I? Cause that would be, you know, disappointing. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/18 "2005-05-23T05:20:57Z")
I take pictures of flowers. I got thousands of them. [I take trips just to be there when certain flowers blossom, every years.](http://www.alwaysbackup.com/~michaelk/images/Sample%20Photos/IMG_1300.jpg) I see lots of other men there, as well. If I had known that we were all gay, I could have . . . naah. Tris ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/19 "2005-05-23T08:02:56Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > If I wasn’t the shy type, I would have replied, “Well, how about I buy you dinner tonight and let me get the chance to prove to you that I’m not?”. 😛 Feh! amateur 😉 How about: “Well, you can stick your hands down my pants and see if I don’t get excited!” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2005, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012/20 "2005-05-23T10:29:58Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > How can loving female sex organs be gay? The majority of ornamental flowering plants have reproductive organs that are both male and female. But essentially, you’re right - flowers are porn - just intended for a non-human audience (mostly insects and birds). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-of-flowers-is-gay/305012.md?page=2)