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sinboy) is smarmy in so many ways. It implies Kerry and Edwards are gay as if it were an insult, but is too coy to quite say it, lest anyone notice the dumbness inherent in the idea that closeted gay lovers would run for president a) at all or b) against each other.
Not to mention that two men in the middle of a grueling campaign would have time or energy to hook up in the first week, and then be dumb enough to hint at it in public. For god’s sake, anyone trying to keep that secret would be on opposite sides of the platform and edging away. And anyone not trying to keep that secret would be calling a press conference.
Then he implies they’re, instead, insincere for playing gay, or unmanly in their actual willingness to touch another man, or, um, something? He wouldn’t dream of saying they’re gay. They’re merely gay-like, except for the gay part. But it's still bad.
It’s so stupid I don’t even know where to begin. If they’re comfortable enough in the own sexuality, whatever it is, not to take every glancing physical contact as the next thing to a hand job, good for them. If they’re following handlers’ instructions, well, that makes them politicians, and believe it or not, Bush and Cheney do it too. If this guy is so utterly creeped out by the spectacle of two men touching, he can turn off the TV and get his news at a merciful remove, the way I do whenever Bush starts talking.
Also, my unpopular opinion – John Edwards is so not hot. My feminist heart (though not, I think, any harder to move with erotic speculation than a non-feminist heart might be) is completely untouched. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’ll make a fine vice president. I just don’t want to do him. He looks like a weatherman, or Dan Quayle’s smarter brother. The hair doesn’t move enough, and I’m blinded by the teeth.
On the other hand, I’d sleep with Senator Leahy on principle. I have no idea what the guy looks like, but Cheney told him fuck you or fuck off or something like that, and I feel it is my patriotic duty to assist in making it come true.
In happier news, Ron Reagan plans to speak at the Democratic National Convention during prime time on the importance of stem cell research.
Not news at all, but definitely happy: Look at the cool t-shirtrosefox designed because of a conversation in my LJ! I broke my t-shirt buying moratorium, but how could I not?
It's a good thing I'm too lazy -- and insufficiently visual -- to learn how to vid. On the way down to Atlanta, I decided I really wanted to see a Spike/Angel vid to Barenaked Ladies' "It's All Been Done", and this morning on the way to work, I wanted a Pirates of the Caribbean vid to "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor."
I need an icon of that old Doonesbury panel in which Jeremy tells Lacey "I have to disagree. I'm genuinely strange."
sinboy) is smarmy in so many ways. It implies Kerry and Edwards are gay as if it were an insult, but is too coy to quite say it, lest anyone notice the dumbness inherent in the idea that closeted gay lovers would run for president a) at all or b) against each other. Not to mention that two men in the middle of a grueling campaign would have time or energy to hook up in the first week, and then be dumb enough to hint at it in public. For god’s sake, anyone trying to keep that secret would be on opposite sides of the platform and edging away. And anyone not trying to keep that secret would be calling a press conference.
Then he implies they’re, instead, insincere for playing gay, or unmanly in their actual willingness to touch another man, or, um, something? He wouldn’t dream of saying they’re gay. They’re merely gay-like, except for the gay part. But it's still bad.
It’s so stupid I don’t even know where to begin. If they’re comfortable enough in the own sexuality, whatever it is, not to take every glancing physical contact as the next thing to a hand job, good for them. If they’re following handlers’ instructions, well, that makes them politicians, and believe it or not, Bush and Cheney do it too. If this guy is so utterly creeped out by the spectacle of two men touching, he can turn off the TV and get his news at a merciful remove, the way I do whenever Bush starts talking.
Also, my unpopular opinion – John Edwards is so not hot. My feminist heart (though not, I think, any harder to move with erotic speculation than a non-feminist heart might be) is completely untouched. Don’t get me wrong, I think he’ll make a fine vice president. I just don’t want to do him. He looks like a weatherman, or Dan Quayle’s smarter brother. The hair doesn’t move enough, and I’m blinded by the teeth.
On the other hand, I’d sleep with Senator Leahy on principle. I have no idea what the guy looks like, but Cheney told him fuck you or fuck off or something like that, and I feel it is my patriotic duty to assist in making it come true.
In happier news, Ron Reagan plans to speak at the Democratic National Convention during prime time on the importance of stem cell research.
Not news at all, but definitely happy: Look at the cool t-shirt
rosefox designed because of a conversation in my LJ! I broke my t-shirt buying moratorium, but how could I not?It's a good thing I'm too lazy -- and insufficiently visual -- to learn how to vid. On the way down to Atlanta, I decided I really wanted to see a Spike/Angel vid to Barenaked Ladies' "It's All Been Done", and this morning on the way to work, I wanted a Pirates of the Caribbean vid to "What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor."
I need an icon of that old Doonesbury panel in which Jeremy tells Lacey "I have to disagree. I'm genuinely strange."
