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Join Date: May 19, 2009 3:13 AM

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• On 'What's New in Gay Sex?: "Height / Weight Proportionate"':

  Trevor, this is a great piece! I wish I had read before I typed up my piece for The New Gay, "The McDonalization of Gay Culture", because I have so much more I want to add now.

  Those build/body type sections seem to have so little to do with your physical features, but rather the category within gay culture you best in to. For example you can be hairy, but I would see where you wouldn't exactly fit into the Bear category and instead fit better into the Slim category, such as the porn-star RJ Danvers.

  I feel as if one day (soon) someone will develop the software so that when you upload a picture it will make the decision for you.

  Also why does swimmer have its own category, but all other athletic shapes, i.e. soccer, wrestler, Ping Pong Champion, just go under the umbrella term "athletic"?

  Again, great piece!

• On 'Kanye's Outburst @ VMAs':

  I missed it! I was watching the season finale of True Blood, clearly in terms of what everyone will be talking about tomorrow I made the wrong decision.

  It's these kinds of shenanigans that pushed me away from MTV in the first place, because I feel as if the network encourages this kind of behavior.

  Kanye's music is nice, he seriously needs to hire someone to watch that mouth of his.

• On 'Vogue Evolution Exits the Stage':

  Oh poo-face! I really liked Vogue Evolution too. It's sad to see them go. It's still shaping up to be a good season though.

• On 'The Ultimate Emo-Twink-Queen':

  I think one lyric really goes, "Your heart. Your soul. Remote Control."

  Anyway, that was a confusing music video. I adored the 80s style hair, but then the Terminator robots, and desert backdrop was just too much.

  Still cute video. The singer kinda looks like the "Gay God".

• On 'God Bless Gay Men's Creativity':

  That's my kind of man. Argh! Let me know if you come across one about astronauts, where he says "Help me blast off." That will make my day.

• On 'Men Who Bareback Should Be Made Partners in Health Promotion, Not Banished':

  A fantastic read! Really informative, you brought up a lot of things that I had never thought about before. You're right if bans do not work, it doesn't make sense to put them in place. It's like a reflex in human behavior to assume banning something inevitably leads to "fixing" the problem, when everything points to the contrary.

• On '7:30 AM: Urgent Care. 4:30 PM: Barney's Warehouse Sale.':

  Recession prices, maybe? Nevertheless, amazing deals. Good find.

• On 'New Manhunt features':

  I kinda of get the "Dad/Son" search feature, some younger guys likes older men and vice verse. There is a definitely a better way to phrase it than that, but que sera, sera.

  It's ethically irresponsible to encourage cheating, unless "Married Men" the feature is ideally intended for couples who are looking for an additional body in their sex life. Though I suppose it could also be used by straight men, which I don't get at all. Why do something so stupid as publicly listing that you are trying to cheat.

• On 'Frameline 33: "Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up"':

  I am absolutely going to forward this to my academic mentor for Suffolk U., as it is right up her alley, as the Director of the Women and Gender Studies program; and I know she would love it.

  It's a fascinating preview for sure, especially because it involves younger folk (not that I am much older), who grew up in a completely different environment thanks in part to stuff like the 2nd wave of feminism and the gay rights movement, and just good old fashion social progress.

  One thing my feminist professors made clear is that when we defined a set of rules and standards for one sex, we inadvertently define the rules and standards for the other(s). It's partly why I consider myself a feminist. I'm completely with Bell Hooks, "feminism is for everybody."

  As for what to call it, I've always fancied "Queer Studies" because to me it goes to the heart as to what it is about. Queer being the opposite of straight, focusing on the aspects of where we bend the norms of society and not confirm to rigid roles.

  I say screw gender roles, we don't live in trees anymore where such rigid standards were necessary for survival.

• On 'Manhunt Publishes Top/Bottom/Vers Data':

  Actual numbers would be much better than a map, where the difference can be anywhere from 1 to 1,000 that pushes it over to top and we wouldn't know the difference.

  Nevertheless, I think some "bottom stigma" is clearly at play here, because the map simply doesn't make any sense.

  Still, beyond being a question on Gay Jeopardy--which strangely would still be hosted by Alex Trebeck--I fail to see what this implies.
  

• On 'Dumb Research 101: "Marriage Bans --> Rise in HIV"':

  You have to love economist and their irrelevant studies, that propose the most bizarre things.

  I wonder if this is what most eco-heads do with their time and research money.

• On 'What's Your Bear Code?':

  Yep, definitely hilarious. Unfortunately, I am not destined for Beardom, yet anyway. Nevertheless, I have come up with my Bear Code for my ideal Bear, if I ever should one day come across him on the street:
  B2-3, C+, D, E, F+, G, K--, M, Q-, R-, S, T+, W-

  Btw, is he not the cutest thing ever!

• On 'Why I Loathe San Savage':

  I don't know why our choice of spokesperson has to be either Perez Hilton or Dan Savage, neither of which are really appealing characters. I watched him Friday on Real Time and it was just embarrassing to listen to him talks as if he was elected Speaker of the Gays.

  He can be so obnoxious it is deafening.