[nwrep]

Bump for Bozell. Well written.

[thegreatbeast]

This is barbrastreisand!
Because there are 3 or 4 gay channels now. Watch IFC, Sundance or HBO and they have an unhealthy percentage of gay-oriented shows. IFC and Sundance seem to have gone all-gay all the time.

[Republic]

BRAVO for BOZELL!!!

[kstewskis]

I find a bit of irony here.

Why do the gays scream "minority," i.e. they are what, 10% (or is it 15% now) of the population?

But then, a network decides to "cater" to this "minority." Business wise, this doesn't make much sense.

Either it's a stupid move financially, or (what I think) there are more gays out there. It's the loudest darned "10%" (or whatever) there is.

[rs79bm]

Who gives a rats ass if they create a gay and lesbian channel. All you need to do is turn on Cinemax at 10:30 and you'll see you already have a gay and lesbian channel.

[evolved_rage]

The premise of the show is for a "Fab Five" of gay men to "transform a style-deficient and culture-deprived straight man from drab to fab"

We saw the ad for the show. After my spouse and I finished wretching, we thought the proto-fag staight man looked gay in his new clothes. At least when they dress that way, you know whose hand not to shake rather than relying on the sense of touch and a limp hankshake to announce a sodomites nature. After years in SF, it still makes my skin crawl to hear a grown man titter during a business meeting like a 12 year old mall rat.

[snowstorm12]

The interior designer suggests the guy's apartment looks like the home of a psychopath: "without you here to represent yourself, I would have looked at this and called the police." Another calls it "a crack den."

ROFL! OMG I gotta see this show.

[rllngrk33]

That's all I need, fashion advice from five gay guys! They're going to show me how to dress like a queer. How the hell do these guys know what a woman likes? They're GAY, that means they don't like women.

And don't give me that crap about them being women trapped in a man's body!

[xm177e2]

Tom Shales of The Washington Post objected to the "stereotypes on parade" in this series, and I agree.

Leftist PC meets Conservative PC. Whine, whine, whine.

[expatguy]

There ain't nothing manly with having your peepee smell like poopoo.

[Jhoffa_]

Tom Shales of The Washington Post objected to the "stereotypes on parade" in this series, and I agree. It's stereotypical to think of only gay men as top-notch connoisseurs of food, wine, culture, design and grooming. How heterophobic. It's the Gay Supremacy Hour.

Exactly..

But, of course.. stereotyping queers as anything but decent, caring people who just want to be left alone is "wrong"

Ain't it?

[GrandMoM]

BUMP

[Myrddin]

The last TV show that kept me interested enough to tune in weekly was "Walker, Texas Ranger". When Norris decided to stop producing the show, my TV was off for months. When I heard that Kellie Martin had a spot on ER, I tried watching that for a while. She was quickly killed off. I watched ER until they started pushing the lesbian stuff. My TV is off again. I can get news stories off AM radio or the internet. All I need is a monitor to watch selected DVD movies.

[bourbon]

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is not pitched at the straight guy. It's pitched at the straight girl.

I only wish straight women would wake up and realize that many, if not most, gay men thoroughly detest women.

[fight_truth_decay]

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[Fiddlstix]

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[lonewacko_dot_com]

>"Can a homophobic stroke victim and a flamboyant drag queen help each other find self-esteem?" Traditional values are so misguided they've become an illness. Don't you love those films where the ultraconservative character recovers from the illness of his ways?

I don't like them either. However, perhaps the drag queen isn't a heterophobe. Perhaps the drag queen doesn't disrespect "traditional" values. Or, maybe he doesn't. Making a point about that would be valid; the point he makes isn't.

"Let's try it with a racial twist, where blacks are cured of their stereotyped fancy for fried chicken, watermelon and malt liquor"

That's a good point about hypocrisy, however:

"It's also -- surprise, surprise -- drenched in references to raw, perverted homosexual sex"

Yeah, well, that's why it's on cable.

"This crud may be acceptable for that element in our culture that's already earning an advanced degree in Sin Acceptance"

Is it possible to denounce the stereotypes and the hypocrisy without becoming homophobic?

[nickcarraway]

ping

[Old Professer]

I licked a lightbulb once.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The phantasms eminate from the satanic family altar of television promoting idolatry of perversion, ritual murder of abortion and all manner of neo-pagan cults... click on my name to see my FR homepage.