"Gay Zombies": This is why I still have a job

Sometimes I look around at the media landscape and think, "You know, maybe things aren't so bad. Maybe gay visibility and understanding and common decency are really making headway, and I should start sending my resume over to Cat Fancy Online before the groundswell of gay acceptance renders my job irrelevant."

And then I come across sh*t like Gay Zombies.

A product of the always-inspired College Humor site (I still can't decide if the name is more of an insult to college or to humor), Gay Zombies (or at least, Gay Zombie, as the clip itself apparently can't be bothered to decide) pretty much sums up everything that makes me want to curl into a ball around a bottle of Maker's Mark and cry myself to sleep every afternoon night.

Rampant dated gay stereotypes (hairdressing! fashion! lisps!)? Check. Predatory gay sexuality? Check. Straight white men running around beating gay men in the face with shovels as "comedy"? Check.

The thing is, these guys probably think that they're being "irreverent" and "daring" by making this. Maybe they're not homophobic at all. But if so, they're also apparently too stupid or insensitive to realize that what they've created isn't sending up stereotypes, it's reenforcing them. And I honestly don't know which is worse: a "filmmaker" who has a blatantly anti-gay agenda, or a "filmmaker" who is so utterly incompetent in the crafts of storytelling and satire that they don't realize that what they're creating is toxic crap.

(And Gay Zombie dudes, lest you think that I'm just some bitchy queen who doesn't "get" horror movies, I run a horror website and can out-zombie you any day of the week. Maybe Gay Robot is hiring interns?)