I don't get why guys in their 40's would go after somebody in their late teens.  For me anybody under 35 is too young!  There is a lot to be said for going with someone who has had as many life experiences as I have had.  Dating someone who is worried about acne, what they want to be when they grow up, and thinking it is cool to get plastered at a party is just too bizarre for words.

Cheers

JBE

Is there any bigger stereotype to push than to have a middle-aged gay man to want to date an 18 year old boy? And how pathetic is it that this contractor would even go along with this? Hooking up with some boy he barely knows? A successful, attractive gay man can find men much more attractive and age-appropriate than some sociopath with an ugly shaved head.

Time after time, DH avoids ANY possibility of shining a positive light on gay men or their lives. Instead, it is once again gay men as negative, unhealthy, pathetic.

...what the name of this show is. *Desperate* housewives. I think that even as utterly creepy as trying to match up your young son with a forty something guy just to get your house built is in keeping with the idea of the show. How desperate could you possibly get? This isn't "The Happiest Housewives on Wisteria Lane". It could just has easily been someone's daughter getting matched to a straight contractor. At least they are giving the story to Andrew instead. And no one would accuse them of trying to make straight guys in their forties seem pathetic if it had been the 18 year old daughter. It would just be a sick little night time soap.

If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.

I'm willing to give Marc Cherry the benefit of the doubt until the episode actually shows... I think if it's done well, it will be more of a poor reflection on Bree (and her character's narrowmindedness and inability to really understand her son). I've been somewhat impressed with Andrew recently, and I doubt he will really let himself get 'pimped' out. Bree and Orson are the ones who are thinking this stereotype, and I expect the show to put them in their place for going thie route.

We'll see...

People gotta think it's not out of the realm of possibility 4 Bree.  After all Andrew once slept with an older guy she was dating 4 revenge.  I thought it was a bigger deal when her daughter Danielle dated her high school teacher 4 the simple fact that she was a minor.  But if a 19 year-old wants 2 go with someone in their 40's I say let 'em.  It's fine 4 hooking-up, but as far as relationships go they better beware.  Especially the older of the pair before wasting any more time on someone they could B spending with someone else.  When I was in my early 20's I had a thing 4 this guy twenty years older.  I never told him (cuz he was spoken 4) so I don't know how it would have played out.  We used 2 have great conversations so I like 2 think it could have worked, but something I think about now is that today he'd be in his 50's and would I want 2 be with someone in their 50's?  As far as Desperate Housewives goes, I'm sure the way they execute the storyline will be funny as hell.  I say "People who've been crying around about gay-stereotypes, well here's something fresh!"  It's just entertainment after all.

I like that Andrew is so deliciously evil and not at all an effeminate stereotype.  Because I believe in full equality I'm glad that the gay characters are just as screwed up as everyone else.  This show is too much fun. Settle the strike, bitches!

Damn, they could have atleast given Andrew an actual hot guy.

Whatever happened to Justin? He was soo hot!

 They should bring back Justin.I liked when Andrew was with him.You know, for better, or for worse, i'm glad that Marc Cherry tries to make gay people a part of the scenery.Most shows don't even bother, but it would be nice if it weren't "for worse" and they weren't just "part of the scenery" so much.That's what the new gay couple have become.....scenery.They're not really weaved into the show the way everyone else is.Other characters moved to Wisteria lane because of deep dark secrets like affairs and killing someone, but not them.They just didn't like living in the city.that's it.*yawn*

I like Andrew just fine.I don't really mind that he's a little evil.....well was evil, anyway, but we see so little of him.He finally gets some more screen time, and this is what they give us?The fact that this show is headed by a gay man is kind of disappointing.It seems just like any other show where any gay characters are just there to add a little color to a straight world as opposed to Andrew having a storyline of his own where, like everyone else, he's having relationship drama.....with Justin.

If my friend watched this certain episode of DH I seriously doubt she'd be calling me and asking me if I were like that. At the end of the day, it is just a TV show. And yeah, TV shows can shape people's perceptions on things but DH? I think not.

"If Bree really needs to pimp out family members to get her house rebuilt, she should be fronting someone more age-appropriate – like her husband Orson..."

not only more age appropriate - but so much hotter! :P

"I always say a kiss on the hand may feel very very good - but a diamond tiara lasts forever."