Oh, yeah, because any man who understands color and constrast and can apply color with a brush must be totally gay. Like the guy who did this. Flaming fag.
Get out of here.
Watch it, pal.
I’m related to one.
One of my good friends is gay. He also just recently retired from the police force: Narcotics, Brookyln.
I’m gay. I do some carpentry. I do some cabinetry and furniture making. My full time job is wells and water pumps.
I’m good at working with natural colors like woods and stone. When it comes to paints and color matching I’m not so good.
Let me be the first to point out that being married or reputably “liking women” can easily be a cover thinly disguising someone’s inner nature. Everyday activities such as choice of profession are a much stronger indicator of sexual preference than just stumbling through some ceremony in front of people or leaving a few girly magazines laying around the house. Interior design isn’t the only completely homosexual career where men try to project a fake persona to the public. Leading male fashion designers such as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein have played the deception with absolute mastery to the point of having a huge empire to frolic in whatever earthly desires they choose behind expensive closed doors.
You may either come up with some cites, or you may watch it too, pal.
I certainly agree that some people cover their sexual orientation. I expect you to show that holding such professions as interior decorator, or fashion designer, is a “completely homosexual career”.
What?
Fashion designers can’t be straight?
Is a reverse true? Am I in the wrong job for my sexuaity?
Cites? In IMHO? Just what forum do you think you are moderating, Mr. Frank?
The only forum I’m aware of that cites are not demanded is MPSIMS. I actually thought I was being nice by asking for a cite; I could have simply warned him off to GD or the Pit.
I’ll admit, readily, 'twas a much better spoken, better phrased post than the one I noted the OP for. Nevertheless, I don’t want that type of incendiary post in my forum.
I’ll allow you one response here. I must request that if you desire to engage in any further debate after that response about my moderator’s decision, that you do so in the appropriate forum for such debate: the Pit.
That was a joke Frank and anybody else who misread it. It is a parody of the type of mindset that certain professions only have people with certain sexual orientations in them. The point was that you can’t really come up with another career that would be stereotypically gay than fashion design yet some of the biggest names in the field are straight males. I thought that I put in enough clear satire that i would be clear on the intent and meaning.
Most of the “old” interior decorator stores in my hometown are female-owned businesses. Some of them have passed the business to their son. These guys are all married. To women.
The “new” decorator stores are hardware/decoration stores. The cashiers are usually women, the people manning the cutters are usually men, the people walking around putting stuff on shelves and giving advice can be men or women. The men usually have actual experience, the women are less likely to have it, so often when you ask a woman she’ll turn around and ask a guy - but I ask whomever is closest as a matter of principle.
The SDMB is obviously getting more mature if this statement can stand for as long as it has without anyone providing the obvious punchline. 
What’s the “obvious” punchline?
I aplogize; I had completely forgotten about this thread - that’s how much it worried me. 
I’ll buy your explanation. I must have been especially humorless that day.
I got the joke, Shagnasty. Good one!
Me, I’m a former machinist, and I’m gay. And I’ve got absolutely no sense of fashion whatsoever, interior or exterior.
…houses built with no studs, but lots of tongue-and-groove. Sorry… you asked.