Lawrence KilliumBill Barr has a great bit about how he hesitates when doing certain stuff that could even remotely be seen as sensitive, because he always hears his buddy’s in the back of his head giving him crap for it and jokingly calling him a “fag.”
(If you haven’t seen it already, check out the video at the bottom of the page)
Guys know it’s just messing around, we aren’t actually calling each other gay. We’re guys, it’s what we do.
Well, as always, what we guys do is wrong to feminists. According to them, they have the answer to this non-issue. Check out this article from the feminist writers of Alternet, when writing about men who are “affected” by this:
The advances of the LGBT movement have freed things up for straights as well as queers, and the younger generation is a lot more fluid and casual about sexual orientation than mine ever was. As my friend Ben pointed out, “The loosening of roles that accompanied feminism and the gay rights movement probably benefited straight men at least as much as it did women and gay men… Witness metrosexuality: now that being mistaken for gay isn’t a disaster, men have more fashion leeway.” And Adam, who describes himself as “effeminate, though heterosexual,” says that being assumed to be gay “gave me a pass on some of the more restrictive rules of masculinity. After all, nobody really bothered to tell me to ‘man up’ when I sounded ‘fruity’ anyway.”
Now, I will say that these attitudes are beginning to change. The advances of the LGBT movement have freed things up for straights as well as queers, and the younger generation is a lot more fluid and casual about sexual orientation than mine ever was. As my friend Ben pointed out, “The loosening of roles that accompanied feminism and the gay rights movement probably benefited straight men at least as much as it did women and gay men… Witness metrosexuality: now that being mistaken for gay isn’t a disaster, men have more fashion leeway.” And Adam, who describes himself as “effeminate, though heterosexual,” says that being assumed to be gay “gave me a pass on some of the more restrictive rules of masculinity. After all, nobody really bothered to tell me to ‘man up’ when I sounded ‘fruity’ anyway.”
Seriously? So not only are they making up the issue, but they’re magically the solution and we should be grateful to them? Come on.
Watch the sketch here:
