I'm your typical male. I love sports, I love beer and I'm a sex maniac. I'm not in any way attracted to men. The thought of any erected penis besides my own makes me sick. However, I enjoy the gay life style. I can't myself watching TV shows like queer eye, or watching gay youtubers like perezhilton and such. On reality TV, the gay guy is usually my fav. WTF?
it sounds like you might have somewhat of a complex in your head. relax, it's not weird; im not lesbian but i watch ellen, and more than half of my friends are lesbian. it's not a bad thing. hope i helped!
I don't see anything wrong with a straight guy enjoying gay people or gay characters on TV. For me, I always found characters like Jack from Will & Grace to be hilarious. I don't know what it is about gay TV characters but I just find them funny. I'm not really attracted to a flamboyent guy though. It's just a turn off most of the time but I enjoy watching some of the more flamboyent characters on TV in a non-sexual way. This thread reminds me of the scene in Rush Hour 2 where Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan's characters walk into a clothing store looking for some fancy cloths so they blend in at a nice Casino they're going to. Here's a clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEC3Bmbqu2o It's a riot.
I love this place. I can be perfectly honest and nobody judges me. That or the BZP is just getting to me... or boht. BUT THANKS.
I think you're basing your opinion on gay people on moronic stereotypes. Most gay guys behave perfectly normally and you'd have no idea that they're attracted to dudes. And what is this gay lifestyle you're speaking about? You keep generalising and using stereotypes to support your claim. I'm not attacking you and I'm very glad you're not homophobic, but really - saying you love the gay lifestyle and like gay guys is like someone saying they like all Brits or Jews - you get so many different types of people who when one part of their life falls into a specific group, that person is immediately seen as being fully part of that group and not of anything else. I hope that made sense. Just dont generalise is what I'm trying to say.
This is sort of a reply a to Andy's post. I really can't identify what it is I like about about stereotypical gay characters on TV. There must be something about their quirks that gets to me. Maybe it is the interaction with macho-straight guy characters that I find amusing. Whatever it is, I find it entertaining. Not that I would change who I am in order to emulate it nor would I find such a guy attractive.
I like the straight life style, I tend to enjoy fiction and tv with staright characters in it, doesn't me me any less gay though S
What the hell are you all on about!? There is no such thing as "The gay lifestyle" or "The straight lifestyle"! You're basing all this on stupid stereotypes! Generalising is a very bad thing that merely leads to conflict.
Personally, i find that being gay is not a lifestyle and doesn't come with the necessity to live up to the stereotypical gay attributes. To me a lifestyle is more of something you choose to do, like being into the latest fashion trend or attend a recreational club etc. But i didn't choose to be gay and my lifestyle isnt much different from any other student at my school.
Mushie - I did catch Samhain's sarcasm, but the fact that anyone even elaborates on this concept of a "Gay Lifestyle" or whatever in a more serious manner is rather concerning. I just want to know exaclty what the creator of this thread meant when he referred to the "gay lifestyle", which in actual fact is a completely unrealistic thing.
Well sarcastic to a point, however all my entertainment, films, TV books have always been about straight people, it just appeals to me more. Now it would seem that the O/P likes entertainment that centres around gay characters, now one could argue that a drama based on only gay people would be a gay lifestyle by defination, 'queer as folk' sure isn't a straight life style. now when this becomes offensive is when it gets sterotypical, for example someone saying home decorating is gay life style, or flower arranging, when a man is interested in it, however if one is talking about the life of gay people, i don't have a problem with a drama centred around that being called a gay 'life style' I think what we are all skirting around here is subtle homophobia, who minds if a gay man loves working on cars and going to football? if a straight man likes flower arranging, then things are said, things that wouldn't be said if society was 100% ok with homosexuality S
Yeah okay. I'm not angry at the O/P, but just this whole lifestyle thing caught me =] I just wonder if it's a common held belief that there is such a thing as a "gay lifestyle" and what exactly is meant by the term. I just wanted to point out that a lifestyle can not be generalized upon based on one small section of a group or community. Like I said before - it merely leads to conflict - something we could all do without.
well, people may disagree with you there, I know peopel that would go out of their way to lead what they call a 'gay life style' because they want to be a seperate identy based on their sexuality, what defines a gay life style you would have to ask the individual that states they lead one S
