Letters to the Editor

• Damn! I Must be Queer for Girls!

  [Read the article: My friend claims the men I like are all gay]
  [Read more letters about this article: Here]

  I am simply stunned at the number of responses here which attempt to confirm, from a classic sexist viewpoint, that the LW's guys must be gay because they appreciate certain material items. To even use the already-tired term "metrosexual" is bad enough, but to suggest these guys actually have to be gay simply because they recognize a period negligee or find leaded crystal fascinating is one of the sickest things I've encountered in a long time, and since I am so shaky in my own sexuality I guess I must be gay, since I would not only recognize (and be pleased to see) the negligee in question but own far more leaded crystal than I'll ever have use for I guess I'm a goner! Not to mention my fetish for red anodized aluminum, most of which I acquired from a gay friend (god rest his soul) who dealt in retro junk. So how do I account for my near fatal attraction to girls? I must be the world's biggest perv!

  But seriously gang, I suspect the biggest problem LW has is her choices in female friends. And that may be a two-edged blade in this case, the present friend perhaps finding LW as attractive as LW does herself and so hoping to create the impression there are no desireable straight guys left; the former friend probably was a man-hating feminazi or perhaps simply jealous of LW's success with manly men when she couldn't land one herself (admittedly a lot of assumptions from this ass, but I'm certainly in good company here).

  This is one of the silliest, yet most interesting call-and-response events to which Cary has been party so far!

  According to many of the responses here I'm queer as a box of birds, the girlfriend is a lesbian Machiavelli and the ex-friend is probably a closet dyke. Or maybe LW is just placing way too much weight with what her one-at-a-time friends think she should think. Hell, if she's having fun with these guys, who really cares what they were when they came through the door? And sit-down time to dissect the basis for this odd "friend"'s behavior? Spend that time hanging with some of these interesting guys you're attracting, LW, and worry a whole lot less about who's wired how.

  By the way, I'd love to meet your friend. She sounds like she may be ready for a breakthrough of her own.

  Permalink Thursday, February 15, 2007 09:58 AM