Okay, that was awesome. I’ve always liked AC, but now I think he’s a cool mofo.
The next day he put himself on the Ridiculist; not for giggling, mind you, but for giggling like a 12 year old girl meeting Justin Bieber for the first time.
He and Sam Shepard are a power couple known as 2-Shep. But that’s very hush hush so you didn’t hear it from me.
And to people saying it doesn’t matter to them and they don’t understand why it’s any big deal, I understand the sentiment and I believe you but please understand that to millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions and millions of Americans somebody being gay ABSOLUTELY DOES matter and ABSOLUTELY IS a big deal. On the Straight Dope where, for the most part at least, being gay or being straight is the neutral demographic it should be, but that’s not the case in The Waking where there is still not a day that goes by without some politician or preacher making news with some dumbass comments or worse, some parent disowning their gay child (which still happens, a LOT) and gays having to decide whether to shut up and get an ulcer or engage and risk worse on when fucking idiots at work or on the train or in the shopping center- or in their family- start ignorantly and hatefully opining. Every bit of visibility helps, and Anderson- being generally very well liked and respected and scandal free- is a big win in the Red Rover Games for Gays and Friends-Of-GayS (or “Fags and Fogs” as we prefer to be known).
Ok, but I didn’t mention anything about playing coy. I expressed pretty much the same sentiment as you, “and this is news why?”. I think the lack of newsworthiness to this announcement is a good thing.
Good on him of course.
What gets me is the predictable stream of “and this is news why?” comments.
For whatever reason, it does matter, and I doubt the human race will ever stop needing to know who is sleeping with whom.
I must have a weird sense of humor or I’m just not funny. It’s like I didn’t even post, according to the no response.
What I posted upthread (#73) is funny because Anderson Cooper is practically albino. What isn’t funny is that anybody would even care about his (always known) and recently divulged gayness. Incredible.
Did your grandfather used to go down on your grandmother? I only ask because Charlie Chaplin fled this country for England in the 19whatevers because it was “outed” that he performed cunnilungus on his wife, which was against the law at the time.
That’s embarrassing, right? Makes you squirm, feel uncomfortable. Because none of us have any right to lift up somebody else’s covers and lookysee.
I hope he DID do it for the ratings. He sure didn’t have to do it for me.
Well speak for yourself, Becky, but 1) that story doesn’t make me squirm at all. and 2) I’m glad Anderson Cooper came out.
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I hope he DID do it for the ratings. He sure didn’t have to do it for me.
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Are we still talking about Anderson Cooper coming out or Charlie Chaplin performing cunnilingus?
[Amazingly there’s kind of a connection; Chaplin’s last wife was Oona O’Neill, [estranged] daughter of Eugene O’Neill and BFFs from teen years with Gloria Vanderbilt, who married the thrice her age Leopold Stokowski and started a family soon after Oona married the thrice her age Charlie and started a family. (Both were happy marriages- Gloria and Leo divorced but remained close and she always referred to him glowingly; Oona and Charlie had 8 kids so apparently it wasn’t all cunnilingus, though sadly she missed him so much when he died she became a total alcoholic.)
I was fine with him keeping his personal life private, if only because not every place in the world is downtown Manhattan. He travels to places where being gay can be a death sentence. Hell, some of those places are dangerous enough for a women - remember his 60 Minutes colleague Laura Logan’s sexual assault?
…Like Alab-oh nevermind. :o
But read Sampiro’s post. There are people he *did *want to do it for, even if he didn’t *have *to do it. (AC, not CC).
He didn’t do it for you, or for the ratings. If you read the email, he did it for the kid who hears Curtis Knapp’s sermon and wonders if Knapp is right, that she should be put to death because she is gay. Or, worse, for the person who hears that story and thinks, “Damn straight those gays should be put to death, and I’m just the person to help.” He did it for the person who still feels nervous when meeting new colleagues, wondering if it’s necessary to do the Dance of the Pronouns and use “they” instead of “him” or “her” when describing a significant other. He did it for the teenaged boy whom “everyone” knows is gay and who gets shit every day in the locker room, accusing him of looking too long at other boys’ bodies, even though, quite honestly, those minutes in the locker room are not only NOT a turn on but are the most miserable moments of his day.
He didn’t do it for you, or for me, and we’re priveleged for that.
Might be Bob.. Loving (Supreme Court case) was in 1967 and my 13 yr old daughter thought I was straight up lying about interracial marriage being illegal..
What on earth are you going on about?