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perevisionJacob of Television Without Pity talks about gay boys being the "ponies" (read: objects of fascination and occasionally possessiveness) for tweenie girls, which explains so much about many yaoi fans of that age.
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Ladies, let's talk about that shit. You need to cut it out. Across the board. Because something you might not understand -- and we love you, we do -- is that when you're gay twenty-four seven, it's not that novel. We're gay even when you're not around, and most of the time we don't think about it, because we are too busy being people just like you. So basically, it's not weird until you get weird about how not-weird it is. When you do the Awww thing, you're basically telling a fat girl she has a pretty face. She didn't ask, dude. "Aww, I'm so weirded out by your gayness that it has turned into not being weirded out at all, and now I have become a crazy-eyed fan of your gayness. Not where I can think about what it is that you actually do in bed, the revolutionary and awesome acts that you fellas get up to, because I am freaked out enough by my own body which is a territory closer to home if you see what I'm saying. But boys holding hands and kissing, like the little babies with just the rose colored in and everything else monochrome? Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. Do you like shopping? I like shopping. Let's go shopping." Imagine an unscripted show where Asian geniuses teach white people how to do math and play the violin. Imagine making the horrified face Eric is making here, every day, inside where nobody can see it, ten times a day for the rest of your life.
I think at this point, culturally, where we are with the gays is a sort of in-between place where it's okay as long as they're small enough to put in our pocket, and their dicks are imaginary. And being a gay teenager means that nine times out of ten, you're looking at either playing along and acting like a sexless child, or not being very popular, because by dint of your existence you are advertising your potential for a lifestyle, shoving it in the faces of the people as it were, and that's unacceptable. So... Did you ever wonder about a very short person, if they act younger than their age maybe because everybody around them requires certain things and treats them certain ways and expects certain responses? That's the easy way out, the adorable matching backpack way out, and we take it all the time.
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I can't believe I found this on a recap of Gossip Girl. This has to be one of my favourite sites ever.
Direct quote:
Ladies, let's talk about that shit. You need to cut it out. Across the board. Because something you might not understand -- and we love you, we do -- is that when you're gay twenty-four seven, it's not that novel. We're gay even when you're not around, and most of the time we don't think about it, because we are too busy being people just like you. So basically, it's not weird until you get weird about how not-weird it is. When you do the Awww thing, you're basically telling a fat girl she has a pretty face. She didn't ask, dude. "Aww, I'm so weirded out by your gayness that it has turned into not being weirded out at all, and now I have become a crazy-eyed fan of your gayness. Not where I can think about what it is that you actually do in bed, the revolutionary and awesome acts that you fellas get up to, because I am freaked out enough by my own body which is a territory closer to home if you see what I'm saying. But boys holding hands and kissing, like the little babies with just the rose colored in and everything else monochrome? Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. Do you like shopping? I like shopping. Let's go shopping." Imagine an unscripted show where Asian geniuses teach white people how to do math and play the violin. Imagine making the horrified face Eric is making here, every day, inside where nobody can see it, ten times a day for the rest of your life.
I think at this point, culturally, where we are with the gays is a sort of in-between place where it's okay as long as they're small enough to put in our pocket, and their dicks are imaginary. And being a gay teenager means that nine times out of ten, you're looking at either playing along and acting like a sexless child, or not being very popular, because by dint of your existence you are advertising your potential for a lifestyle, shoving it in the faces of the people as it were, and that's unacceptable. So... Did you ever wonder about a very short person, if they act younger than their age maybe because everybody around them requires certain things and treats them certain ways and expects certain responses? That's the easy way out, the adorable matching backpack way out, and we take it all the time.
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I can't believe I found this on a recap of Gossip Girl. This has to be one of my favourite sites ever.
