On another board it was claimed that (1) Spongebob Squarepants is associated with the gay community, and (2) wearing Spongebob theme apparel may label you as a homosexual. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but in the interest of fighting ignorance - is there any truth to this?
Oh yeah, and don’t forget the Teletubbies. But we don’t just wear the apparel, we actually act like them whenever possible. At least I do.
I’ve heard the Spongebob thing also but I could never figure it out or find out how it started.
I vaguely recall that some prankster called a christian call-in show with a rumor that Barney the dino was gay. Apparently the host bought it, but an alert staffer corrected him.
What? I’ve heard no such thing. Did I miss a memo?
What good is my giblet membership if they always forget to send me the memos?
You’ve got the giblets? Barb was going to make some turkey soup with them! What do you want with them – you’ve got crayons! 
It’s not all of the teletubbies though. The evil homosexual one is Tinky Winky - according to Mr. Falwell. Watching Teletubbies can make your children GAY …[gasp]
http://www.geocities.com/libertarianrev/news.2-11-99.tubbies.html
I don’t know if it’s actually true, but according to E! Online News the Wall Street Journal thinks it is.
So does the ever-reliable WorldNet Daily :rolleyes:
Actually, I’d heard Squidward was gay. (Comon, a Clarinet playing Squid? How could he NOT be?)
Which means, in the name of exposing my kids to everything I can, I make sure we watch it regularly.
Not because I LIKE to watch Spongebob, oh no. not-at-all.
And never EVER watch it while working out. There’s a scene where Mr. Crabs is in a graveyard and sees Squidward in the distance, weeping at a grave marker (faced away from the viewer).
YOU try benchpressing 160 lbs when they show you he’s weeping for ‘All my Hopes and Dreams’.
So, is the movie any good?
Because apparently playing a clarinet is a squid thing. Doncha recall the episode where Squidward moves to Tentacle Acres? There were loads of clarinet playing squids.
Well, unless they were a gay group like they have gay choirs.
…nevermind.
My gym is in Chelsea, and I love the Holy Mole (mo-lay, the chocolate chili sauce?) burritos at the Burritoville one block from the Stonewall Bar itself. I usually walk from one to the other, and I must say, on all the apparell of the Confirmed Bachelors at my gym and all my traipses through the Epicenter of Gay Rights in America, I have not noticed any more Spongebob stuff than anywhere else.
Of course, maybe all the guys on Christopher are wearing him on a T-shirt that I can’t see since we’re all bundled up for the cold. Brrrr! But wait, none of the fetish shops I go by have him either.
Now, thanks to this thread, I’ll bet I’ll see him EVerywhere.
Probably the same way the whole Bert and Ernie being gay got started. You know, people who have too much time on their hands and are convinced that the homosexuals are out to take over the world.
We’re not out to take over the world?
Darn! What’s the use of being gay, then?
WRS
Would a gay icon wear tightie whities?
As Dan Savage would emphatically state, tighty whities are not a bad thing on the right people/men.
WRS
The first time I saw this was in a pro-gay list of homosexuals. It didn’t make it any less stupid. Well it was between that and insulting my intelligence.
Yes, but anthropomorphic artificial porifera are usually not on that particular A-list.
SpongeBob isn’t gay, he’s just happy.
The movie was rather flat (pun intended, rather fittingly).
Tinky Winky is gay. There is, no kidding, an episode of Teletubbies in which Tinky tickles the butts of the other Teletubbies with what looks like an oversized version of the kind of New Years Eve noisemaker that unrolls into a long tube when blown into. It’s overtly phallic.
In fact, Falwell’s “evidence” was Michael Musto’s column in the Village Voice, which was among the places which referred to Tinky Winky as “the gay one.” As dubious as the theory is, it’s not like Rev. Falwell (actually, one of his magazine staffers) made it up out of whole cloth.
You haven’t seen the latex Spongebob fetishwear on 8th St.? It’s out there! That said, I don’t see Spongebob being any more a gay icon than any other number of camp pop culture figures.
I don’t know about SpongeBob, but what about his friend Sandy Cheeks?
SpongeBob and Patrick has always struck me as more the best friends type a la Harry and Lloyd (Dumb and Dumber) rather than gay.