Who runs the world? Apparently gays. I am being facetious with that statement, but I was catching up with a straight friend who congratulated me on the passage of Question 6 in Maryland, allowing same-sex marriage. I joked that I was proud of my Maryland peeps and then joked that us gays were taking over! Gays were running this mother! He agreed and we laughed about that idea for a bit, but then it dawned on me, that there must be a real segment of the population that truly believes us gays are taking over the world and are hunkering down in their homes with guns and pictures of female vagina's to ward us off! I mean, they must have nightmares about an episode of Glee exploding in their homes and infecting everything in it. I've never understood the gay hysteria, but sometimes can understand the Glee nightmares! Boys sometimes like boys, get over it. Boys sometimes want to grow up and marry boys. If you're not gay, probably a good idea that you refrain from gay activities and hobbies. I'm not into girls, so I sit out joint boy and girl bedroom activities. Yep, I keep my tail parked on the sidelines. I actually feel that way about some other social issues that plague these good ole United States of America, but that's for another post! And can I just say, for the record, that it takes a real commitment to be a gay man! A real commitment, you don't go into this light heartedly and flippantly, oh no, just ask a gay boy's ass! Uh oh, maybe that was too much for a weekday. Too much? Moving along...
I remember a few years back when my father was trying to decode my expressed his displeasure about the lesbian storyline currently airing on All My Children (may she rest in peace) and questioned me as to why this particular storyline was necessary. He just didn't understand why gay people were, in his words, suddenly everywhere. I guess its the same way some Republicans felt about security allowing Barack Obama the interloper to escape from the kitchen and into the living quarters of the White House. There are dishes to be done and food to cook damn it! I kid again - all in jest folks! And I only said some Republicans! John McCain was my friend until he snatched Sarah Palin from her elk hunting trip, slapped some lipstick on her, smacked her on her ass and pushed her behind a podium - and into the living rooms of unsuspecting Americans. It just wasn't fair! Anyway, as someone being gay to my father was as difficult to understand as calculus, I ventured to guess that lesbian storyline was most likely an attempt by the writer's to create a show, a cast of characters, more representative of the world in which we actually lived. I ended my thought with the simple thought that times change. Gays exist and the President has a really good tan. I also found it humorous that a solidly straight man was discussing a storyline on All My Children. I digress.
But it does make one think. How many backwoods beer bellied crotch scratching fools looks at the world in 2012 and somehow feels that the America that they knew and loved is slipping away? How many ignorant hillbillies are clutching to their sheets with their left hand and biting the nails of their right, afraid that the big purple gay monster is going to crawl from underneath their bed and pounce.
Ok...so gays don't run the world, but you know who does? Beyoncé and apparently GIRLS! Love this little ditty and I may have had my own private dance party listening to this song. Enjoy.
Ok...so gays don't run the world, but you know who does? Beyoncé and apparently GIRLS! Love this little ditty and I may have had my own private dance party listening to this song. Enjoy.
I'm sorry I missed the lesbian storyline on All My Children. Makes me wonder what else I missed along the way.
ReplyDeleteHowever, the idea of big purple gay monster makes me swoon a bit. One can only hope he's hiding under MY bed.