You are absolutely right. As a gay man I have no interest in anything at all besides sucking cock. I don’t (say) go to school or have hobbies or speak any foreign languages or hold political beliefs or read or anything. My life is just one big cocksuckin’ festival, all the day long.
Come to think of it, why am I even posting at all? Why am I on the computer? If you’ll excuse me, the three or four hunky frat boys rolling around in my bed need my attention right now. (BE RIGHT THERE, BRUCIE!!)
Seriously, Rich, you’re honestly the most amusing homophobe I’ve come across in a long time. Keep up the good work.
Well…maybe he’s a sculptor…no, no, a stonecutter. And he’s carving a gravestone, no, a memorial for Mount Auburn Cemetery outside Boston, a big ol’ Angel. And he just CAN’T seem to get the tits right. Flaming sword looks good…long curly hair is just perfect…but the tits are beyond him. So he goes over to the computer and brings up the Straight Dope Message Board, and by golly, there’s a thread right there on BREASTS! How could he resist?
you’re still not seeing it. The fact that they posted is evidence that they were interested in the subject. Perhaps not in the same manner you were, but certainly interested.
In your OP, the thread you were flumoxed about was entitled “Breasts”. So some gay male opened it, and posted his take on the subject “Breasts”. so what? Even if the title had been “Women’s Breasts”, and they responded ‘gee, I prefer men’s’, again so what?
In a thread on Sushi, you’re certain to get folks chiming in ‘yea, I love it’ and others saying ‘yech, hate it how can you eat it?’. So what?
At worst it’s a minor hijack. With emphasis on minor (especially for MPSIMS). certainly not worth the effort you took to post a pit thread about it. Or did you enjoy this?
I’ll set the scene here: There is a large auditorium. A red carpet leads up to the main entrance, and the viewing stands on either side are packed with people. From a long line of limos a stream of glittering celebrities walks down the carpet in into their seats in the auditorium.
Inside the awards ceremony goes on for what seems like forever , but finally comes the moment everyone has been waiting for, the awarding of the “Freddie” for the Best Achievement in Homophobia for 2001. A hush falls over the crowd.
The presenter(insert your own preference here) fumbles with the envelope for a moment(another cherished tradition). Their eyes open wide! “And the Freddie goes, by unanimous decision, to Rich G7subs” The crowd roars its approval!!!
Ok Matt,what ever,remember that YOU jumped to the stereotypes,right? THE post I was speaking of was THE breast post NOT any and all posts you responded to.
I’ll just go back to fixin’ ma air 'ditioner,cuz the monster truck rally is fix’n ta start.::pulls up the strap of overalls:: Y’all have a niiice day.
I have no idea why, but I’ll try to put this in terms you can understand.
[sub]speaking very slowly[/sub]
Rich, do you remember back the 80s, when the urban legend about gay men sticking gerbils up their butts was all the rage? Everyone talked about it, Richard Gere was supposed to have done it. People were interested, most of them straight.
This is an example of how you can be a member of one group, and be interested in things the other groups do (or are rumored to do), even if you have no interest in participating in those activities.
To review:
gay men participating in a conversation about or with straight women: not weird
Originally posted by Rich G7subs
Why WOULD a gay man be interested in womans breasts? Still haven’t figured that one out.
I have no idea why, but I’ll try to put this in terms you can understand.
speaking very slowly
Rich, do you remember back the 80s, when the urban legend about gay men sticking gerbils up their butts was all the rage? Everyone talked about it, Richard Gere was supposed to have done it. People were interested, most of them straight.
Oh…duh…I get it now! It was out of abject horror and/or perverse curiousity! Thank you for clearing that up.I feel MUCH better now.
Let’s review, Rich. From your original post, way back on page 1 (emphasis mine):
An overbroad generalization, about multiple (unnamed) gay SDMB participants posting to multiple (unnamed) threads. A really, really dumb concept when you get down to it. Should Christians not post to threads regarding Rabbinical Law? Should Russians not post to threads regarding Wyoming State Legislature activities? And then, you go on to say,
So you want a chance, here on the SDMB, to get away from thock icky queerz and their perverted desires. Read you loud and clear. Sorry, not gonna happen.
Now, maybe you realize in retrospect that the OP was over the top (In the Pit? Not possible!) and have tried to narrow the topic to the Breasts thread and Matt’s input regarding man breasts. Personally, I think it was reasonably tangential to the subject at hand, albeit somwhat disturbing to my fragile male het mind. You seem to disagree with the relevence, but most (all other?) folks posting here seem to agree with me.
So, most people think you’re wrong, and yet you keep flailing, trying to make your point. The problem is, the only point you seem to be proving is the one on the top of your head. I think you’ve shoved your foot so far into your mouth, I can’t see your ankle anymore. Do yourself a favor and either apologize for the OP, or at least shut up, and avoid making yourself look any worse than you already do.
Ok…point taken (from atop my pointy head).I do not come to the Straight dope to hide from anyone.This is a message board fer crissakes!With few exceptions I couldn’t care less what people online think of me I have a life outside this board and I ASSUME everyone else does too.I enjoy perusing the posts now and then (<400 posts in 2 years).Once people here realize there is nowhere to go in this society where you won’t find someone who can’t agree with you.I screwed up by not realizing how brittle some people are.It’s happened before,and much to my chagrin,it’ll happen again.
I’ll quote you on this one regarding an apology. “It ain’t gonna happen”
Giraffe, I’m going to have to disagree… I’m still several steps away from bestowing the “impressively stupid” title. Annoyingly stupid, amusingly stupid, obnoxiously stupid, perhaps. But I am not quite yet impressed with the level of stupidity displayed.
I find Esprix’s (how the hell do you pluralize that?) posts well written and usually fun/interesting to read. Same with Goboy.
If one of them were to start a thread in the pit about, say…Men’s Tight Butts, even though I had no interest in men’s butts…um…other than my own and only in a platonic way…I’d probably open it up, simply to see what they had to say.
If I started a thread in IMHO titled: GWEN VERDON AS LOLA, DIANA RIGG AS EMMA PEEL or MARY TYLER MOORE AS LAURA PETRIE: WHO’S THE SEXIEST? I wouldn’t be at all surprised if one or more gay/lesbian/bi poster joined in. Some of them are friends and might just want to chat, some would want to share their opinions, some of them might want to argue, and some of them might want to say “None of the above, but I find Ed Asner in the early 1970s as Lou Grant particularly woofy” It wouldn’t be a hijack, it’d be a natural evolution.
Cyn??? I just wanted to take a moment here and tell you that I, for one, truly appreciate your breasts
Now then. There I was, waiting for my turn at the local Hair Cut Shoppe ( whose name will remain nameless so I don’t give up my hometown ). " There’s No Business Like Show Business" comes on the CD player. I begin doing what can only be honestly described as a BRILLIANT Ethel Merman. This woman, who was perhaps 50…55… turns to me, and says, " Oh, don’t stop, you do her so well"
God, I was proud of my show tunes heritage. Straight or Gay, boy does the Cartooniverse love showtunes.
>>takes break from shutting up to thank Fenris for his well written explanation realizing that seeing it from a social angle makes sense.I agree completely, Esprix is a very intelligent person and a talented writer<<<
The above quoted from Eve, by the way…and I have to go with her and Kricket. I don’t recall having posted anything except as a flaming bisexual, and I earned my status the old-fashioned way - with a sprained tongue and pruney fingers.
I resent Esprix for trying to push his pure-blood 100% homosexual agenda on me. There’s just no grey area for you, is there? You’re trying to pigeonhole me and I just won’t stand for it! Jesu Christo and a billion virgins, how many toaster-ovens does one man need?
And as a side note, good luck getting Falcon to stop flirting. GOOD luck. And a crowbar.
[sub]if anyone, including Esprix, reads anything into this other than humor, I’m going to get pissed. Esprix is da bomb, da shit and da man all rolled up into one…and I mean that in a good way.[/sub]
