Something About 'SpongeBob' Whispers 'Gay' to Many Men

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 8, 2002 | SALLY BEATTY

[gcruse]

He lives in a pineapple under the sea, in a town called Bikini Bottom. His best friend is an exuberant pink starfish named Patrick. His name is SpongeBob SquarePants, the absorbent yellow star of the most highly rated kids show on TV.

[gcruse]

Now you've done it. Good-bye thread. ;)

[gcruse]

At last. Something tasteful.

[weikel]

i didn't think it was gay before but now that you like it...

[gcruse]

Notice how Kevie sees libertarians in everything?
You don't think he is too anal do you?

[Kevin Curry]

*Yawn*

Shake your little fist, Plankton. Shake it vigorously.

[Kevin Curry]

How cute. Two Planktons.

[seeker41]

This is the afterglow.

[Kevin Curry]

Hemlock, huh? Why do you dweebs choose the names you do?

[gcruse]

They're everywhere! They're everywhere!

[Timesink]

Bert's into pigeons, not Ernie. Everybody knows that.

[Timesink]

Well of *course* -- sponges and starfish are not sexually dimorphic.

I always thought Patrick was supposed to be retarded, not gay.

But then, I thought that about Biz Markie too...

[Texaggie79]

as in a foot up the arse ;-P

[HitmanLV]

"You have two male characters bonding as friends." Growing up gay, he says, "you identify with that."

Hey, you don't even have to grow up gay to identify with that!

[Timesink]

Sorry, but any adult that watches SpongeBob needs his or her head examined. It is vile.

What, did Hillenberg turn down an offer to market "Windows XP SpongeBob Edition" or something?

[Timesink]

I cannot WAIT for the new Ren & Stimpy episodes. But it's probably going to be another year at least...*sigh*

[Kevin Curry]

I'm serious. There must be tens of thousands of names you could choose to identify yourselves with--noble names, good names, perhaps your own names. But I have noticed that a substantial subset of libertarians adopt names like "DarkLordViciousCrapNoodle" or "GreenGrinningHorkPhlegm." Why?

You lose credibility before you ever open your mouths.

SpongeBob Squarepants is deadly serious stuff compared to the comedy you unwittingly parade around.

[Hemlock]

Hemlock, huh? Why do you dweebs choose the names you do?

Dweeb? 6'0", 200 lbs., 10% body fat. I bench 250 pounds and can run three miles in 18 minutes. Whatever, fag.

[IncPen]

SpongeBob and his pals are part of a long tradition of children's cartoon characters with camp resonance. Scooby Doo's Thelma, the Powerpuff Girls, Peppermint Patty, and even Betty Boop -- all have that certain something. For some gay men, these over-the-top characters are innocent in-jokes borrowed from the mainstream media from right under the noses of clueless straight people.

This is part of the left's 'we're smarter than you' mantra, and it's just so much Barbra Streisand. Fond a straigh person who cares that Betty Boop has been hijacked by the gay community. Who cares? Siezing an accepted cultural icon to deflect scrutiny from oneself would seem to me to be some sort of pathology, the work of a person utterly devoid of their own persona.

Being gay means many things, but mostly it means giving up on and not even trying to have a normal relationship (because of an overwhelming fear of failure).

This fear is what makes so many gays angry and self-destructive (Rosie, Elton John, et. al)