Didn’t want to turn it into a GD thread, and I wasn’t trying to find out who’s offended.
Just opining on how there might be different reactions to the same thing if the thread had been started by a straight Straight Doper.
FTR, I have nothing against gays, and have been fortunate to have numerous gay friends, who have been very helpful and supportive, helping me through various difficult times.
The ability to laugh at oneself and one’s peers is invaluable. And if anyone wants to start a thread making fun of middle-aged suburban white guys, I’m so totally there.
I think the main thing that’s important is that the intent was amusement and that the OP(er) had consulted with the people invoked in the OP: “There was a brief discussion which inspired me…”
And I think that’s a big, important thing. Knowing that the parties involved took no issue with this thread or the general idea:)
He doesn’t say the discussion was about this concept. In fact, I took it to be a response to an unrelated discussion, in which the various parties’ personalities sort of inspired the individual designations.
Doesn’t matter. Of course the intent was amusement. And I found it really quite funny. My only point is that, were someone outside this particular group of friends to make a similar statement, even in jest, the chances of it being taken the wrong way are considerable.
Look, in the interest of not being a wet blanket in this thread, I say we drop it, forget I was here, and let’s all just have a gay old time.
I’ve seen Westside story, and Shakespeare performed all kinds of different ways, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone doing it from the gay perspective.
Don’t know why that popped into my head, but it seems a 'natch for Romeo and Juliet, and it would be a hell of an interesting way to do Julius Caesar, or a Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Going with the hijack, there was recently a local theater production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” here, with an all-female cast. Unfortunately, I missed it.
Struggling desperately back into the vicinity of the threadm proper, I like astro’s Wizard of Oz idea. And it’s not that they’re lacking anything, astro, except due recognition of fabulousness. We all like due recognition.
The seven dykes? Hmm, I wonder if I could be the lipstick lesbian dyke or if that would be an oxymoron. I just want to know right now, though - which one of us gets to sleep with snow white?
Only seven on SDMB? Heck, we almost have that many just assisting the service at my chucrch. <counts on fingers> sometimes five or six depending on who’s preaching.
And going further with the hijack, Neil Simon’s movie The Goodbye Girl featured Richard Dreyfuss being cast in the title role in Richard III, in which he was instructed to play it extremely fey.
Of course, it wasn’t a real production, and was played for laughs and pathos, but there’s been many a true word spoken in jest. It would surprise me not at all to learn that some off-off-off-Broadway company somewhere actually did something like this for real.
I’m just waiting for the scene in the feature movie where the Seven Faggots are working in the boutique, or maybe the trendy restaurant, and all the woodland animals come to get them and tell them that Snow White has been taken by one of those “Gay Cure” groups, and all seven of them rush a’la Nathan Lane in The Birdcage to her rescue.
And in the dancing in the cabin scene, would Snow White be sitting alone all night?
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