# Oklahoma? More like Oklahomo, bitches! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 14, 2014, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827 "2014-01-14T23:20:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/41 "2014-01-15T23:31:43Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > That’s what cops’ faces are there for, silly! 🙂 No, really! It’s in the statute, I looked it up! Trust me! ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/42 "2014-01-16T00:23:42Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > At long last, the farmer and the cowman can be more than just friends… I “borrowed” this for my Facebook page. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/43 "2014-01-16T02:28:34Z")
> [@Airbeck](#): > > Well, you just walk 3 feet to either side and spit in the grass or even the street. How large are the sidewalks where you live? Is your entire town one large sidewalk? Ah, I see you accidentally started your first guy on the short-bus Minecraft server, too. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/44 "2014-01-16T03:06:08Z")
Myself, I’m just gobsmacked that there are gays who would _want_ to live in Oklahoma. Seems a bit like Jews demanding the right to live in Nazi Berlin. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/45 "2014-01-16T03:38:46Z")
I was listening to Dan Savage’s Savage Love podcast this week, and his guest (Seth Stephens-Davidowitz) had done a study using various data sources to estimate how many gay men were in the US, and came up with 5% of the male population being gay. In his analysis, he came to the depressing conclusion that the majority of gay men in highly conservative areas stayed in the closet and stayed near where they grew up, choosing to try to keep their family and friends by closeting themselves and, generally, marrying women. That being said, I’m sure that everywhere you look in this country, there are out gay/lesbian/bi/etc. people who manage to create their own little community and have a decent life, regardless of what strangers might think about them. ---
**Author:** ![tonyfop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/85f322/32.png) [@tonyfop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tonyfop)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/46 "2014-01-16T03:43:43Z")
> [@lost4life](#): > > Wait, is _Stiff the Horse_ a euphemism? Man, I gots to keep up with my slang…and apologize for accidentally stiffing that waitress the other night. Tiger? ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/47 "2014-01-16T05:13:46Z")
> [@Flywheel](#): > > At long last, the farmer and the cowman can be more than just friends… Hah! You win the thread. > [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I “borrowed” this for my Facebook page. Me too. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/48 "2014-01-16T06:15:09Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > …who manage to create their own little community and have a decent life, regardless of what strangers might think about them. OK, if that’s what they want, I suppose, but I can’t help thinking it better if gay people are integrated into the general community with no more sense of negative distinction than hipsters, vegans or Satanists. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/49 "2014-01-16T13:38:53Z")
Well, “own little community” in the sense that they have enough people in their home conservative area who accept them for who they are. The guest on the podcast contrasted this with either being closeted in the same area (and thus trying to keep one’s possibly-bigoted family and friends), or otherwise uprooting themselves from everything and everyone to run off to a big city. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/50 "2014-01-16T14:44:49Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Myself, I’m just gobsmacked that there are gays who would _want_ to live in Oklahoma. Seems a bit like Jews demanding the right to live in Nazi Berlin. Me too, but then I’m gobsmacked that _anyone_ would want to live in Oklahoma. Unless you’re an oil derrick or a steer, I just don’t see the attraction. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/51 "2014-01-16T14:47:06Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Me too, but then I’m gobsmacked that _anyone_ would want to live in Oklahoma. Unless you’re an oil derrick or a steer, I just don’t see the attraction. So that old line from _Officer and a Gentleman_ is TRUE?? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/52 "2014-01-16T14:52:52Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > OK, if that’s what they want, I suppose, but I can’t help thinking it better if gay people are integrated into the general community with no more sense of negative distinction than hipsters, vegans or Satanists. Oh, c’mon! They have to be treated better than that. I mean…vegans? Them folks is _weird_. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/53 "2014-01-16T15:38:15Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > So that old line from _Officer and a Gentleman_ is TRUE?? Huh. I didn’t even mean to allude to that. I just couldn’t think of anything else that comes from Oklahoma. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/54 "2014-01-16T15:41:00Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Me too, but then I’m gobsmacked that _anyone_ would want to live in Oklahoma. Unless you’re an oil derrick or a steer, I just don’t see the attraction. Growing up and as a young adult, we and later I alone would at least once a year drive the length of Oklahoma twice, going to and from my grandmother’s house in Arkansas from West Texas. As much as I hate Texas, I would slit my wrists if I had to live in Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/55 "2014-01-16T16:02:45Z")
Reminds one of the old joke about Ireland: Why did all the snakes leave Ireland? Why stay? ---
**Author:** ![Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de0a6/32.png) [@Ambrosio\_Spinola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambrosio_Spinola)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/56 "2014-01-16T16:21:38Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > OK, if that’s what they want, I suppose, but I can’t help thinking it better if gay people are integrated into the general community with no more sense of negative distinction than hipsters, vegans or Satanists. I don’t know about the hipsters or vegans, but the Satanists are also [trying to get their concerns addressed](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535050/Satan-worshipers-want-7-foot-tall-statue-devil-Oklahoma-state-Capitol.html). Kind of weird that both these things happened in the same month. I’m sure there are some interesting sermons to be heard. But my only experience of Oklahoma is the casinos just north of the state line and I’m happy to keep it that way. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/57 "2014-01-16T17:41:08Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You should see that whole block, of barracks style houses, with some open ground and the church building, remodeled from a house as well. There’s one house on the section that does not belong to them, and it’s hilarious to see how the privacy fence has to jink around it. It must be weird to have the WBC so close like that. I think I’d paint my house pink or something. [This one](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/03/21/rainbow-house-fights-westboro-baptist-with-love/) is across the street. Roddy ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/58 "2014-01-17T05:23:47Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > OK, if that’s what they want, I suppose, but I can’t help thinking it better if gay people are integrated into the general community with no more sense of negative distinction than hipsters, vegans or Satanists. You haven’t heard us deal with hipsters, have you? “Whassa matter, Brannnnndon, can’t get your flat black Amex card outta those skin-tight plaid pants to pay for that venti quad-shot half-soy half-cow 2% amaretto half-caf frappuccino extra hot with a dash of Sri Lankan nutmeg under the foam?” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/59 "2014-01-17T05:24:17Z")
Whaling is against the law in Oklahoma? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827/60 "2014-01-17T07:04:24Z")
> [@digs](#): > > You haven’t heard us deal with hipsters, have you? > > “Whassa matter, Brannnnndon, can’t get your flat black Amex card outta those skin-tight plaid pants to pay for that venti quad-shot half-soy half-cow 2% amaretto half-caf frappuccino extra hot with a dash of Sri Lankan nutmeg under the foam?” So, how long have you been a vegan? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-more-like-oklahomo-bitches/678827.md?page=4)