Lady GaGa wants all NYC gays to get on the bus to D.C. this weekend for the National Equality March.
Following this assortment of carefully-selected news items, interested readers can find a refreshing pic of a hot man in underwear after the jump. Yes, we're serious.
- Speaking of Glee, I'm hosting our first livechat for tomorrow's episode starting at 8:45pm EDT, and you can set a reminder below.
- Smurf-loving reporter Michael Ausiello reports that Gossip Girl is going to show a menage a trois on the November 9th episode, but who won't divulge who's in bed with whom. A certain editor has promised to eat his hat if there aren't at least two girls involved.
Which should I buy him in case he's wrong?
- Out.com catches up with the reclusive Neil Patrick Harris, who supports, but isn't going to the the National Equality March.
NPH does his best Michael Phelps
- I've lived my life knowing to never piss off my mother, my boss' secretary, or the resident drag queen at my favorite bar. Now I add editorial cartoonists to that list, because Kevin Be is hysterically angry at GLAAD.
- George Michael would like you to know his open marriage to rich Texan hottie Kenny Goss is just fine, thank-you-very-much.
- Tim Gunn gets called into How I Met Your Mother's 100th episode to help Barney with a "Suit Castatrophe." This is also the episode with the musical number. Can. Not. Wait.
- Dame Elizabeth Taylor enters hospital for heart surgery, asks for prayers. After all the support she's given the gay community, we owe her some positive thoughts.
She was truly stunning in her prime.
- Microsoft may not like you to say you're gay in your gamer tags, but they don't want Washington state's domestic partnership law repealed either. They let loose change of $100,000 fall out of their wallet for the cause.
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For a minute there, I thought the first picture up there was the group of thug friends of Lenny and Carsten (on Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten), 15 years down the road.
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Uncool. Actually, downright offensive.
Mr. Kennedy, you wrote: "I've lived my life knowing to never piss off my mother, my boss' secretary, or the resident drag queen at my favorite bar. Now I add editorial cartoonists to that list, because Kevin Be is hysterically angry at GLAAD."
Is it 2009? I'm starting to feel like I'm in The Yellow Wallpaper. There are so many things wrong with that statement. Mothers and secretaries (that's code for women, yeah, put us in our place) and drag queens are HYSTERICAL? Maybe we should have HYSTERECTOMIES!!
Editors? Retraction? Apology?
I expect more from AfterElton.
Overreact much?
Ed, I had a nice chuckle at your comment. (1) I never try to upset my mother. You know when you try to logically explain/have a conversation about anything she disagrees with to her, but she's in one of her moods, and you just can't get her to see your side, so all you can do is wait until she stops with all the crazy talk/yelling....c'mon I know it's not just me! (2) I've never upset my boss' secretary (who could be male-HELLO Lloyd on Entourage), but i assume it's got something to do with that outburst snicks mentioned in the OLTL liveblog.....ooooohhhh, I'd love to know if I'm right on the money about that one. (3) I know several drag queens (WHOM ARE MEN), and they can be donwnright fiesty, which is why I love them so much! And you're right, pissing them off, not a good thing. If it's one thing I've learned, it's that they know how to make the most awesome, embarrassing scenes in the world! Did I mention, THEY. ARE. AWESOME.
Also, I can't WAIT for the Glee livechat. You had me convinced that b/c there was so much going on in a Glee episode, that maybe it isn't the best idea, but hopefully, it will be wildly entertaining, as I would imagine it to be :)
Kitty
http://www.saveiantojones.com/
Nope, not at all.
As editor of the site, let me add
Oh, that Hollywood Marie...
Girls are so silly!
(Of course I'm being ironic. But I thought the quickest way to end this non-issue, inflammatory baiting was to just say something to make her head explode.)
Let's encourage someone among us to get a life, and let's the rest of us get back to talking about things that matter. Or are, at least, FABulous.
Not going to stoop to your level
There was no need to call me out by name. I was stating my opinion on the sexism I saw in the article and whether you saw it or not is irrelevant to me. I am entitled to my opinion. I can't imagine if this were an issue of stereotypes about gay (which I am) men which alluded to a terrible "medical" practice that was used to "cure" them of an illness (as hysterectomies were). The term "hysterical" is a very loaded one, and I thought it was used in a degrading way (along with the stereotypes).
I have a life, thank you, and part of that life is working towards not only equality for gay people, but also for women (some of whom fall into both groups, like I do). I don't know why you're trying to be inflamatory, or why you seem to hate me so, but I would think that since sexism and homophobia are so intrinsically linked, a self-centered person like you might actually have an ounce of compassion. However, I guess I was mistaken. As you said, these things "don't matter" because they aren't "fabulous."
The name calling, baiting, and general mean tone of the comments in response to mine was truly uncalled for, juvenile, and just plain mean. Shame on you.
Dude, chill
I'm a girl too, and I wasn't offended at all
I actually found it hilarious
If he did mean what you thought he meant, which I don't think he did because as the other commentators explained to you, a secretary and a DQ aren't always catagorized as "female", but if he DID mean what you thought he meant, I would be flattered.
I come from a country where girls are mostly meek and not expected to make any noise. Sometimes the word "tough" is even used negatively (you won't believe how many people have told me I was nice despite being tough). In this context I think you should be thankful that regular female figures would be the "you don't want to piss them off" type in America
And the word "Hysterical" doesn't neccesarly have to be related to the uterus. I don't care what those Greek and Latin roots are. It is a word used in everyday english to describe something over-the-top or extremely funny.
Powerful, not weak
You don't seem to have noticed that this was a list of powerful people who hold power over the individual, not of weaklings. I don't see how you could have missed that.
Personally, I'd suggest some
The chili pepper, btw
Being out is not "being an activist." It is being honest. Unfortunately it's such a rare commodity in this world that honesty often seems like activism.
I agree
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Kitty
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Nothing offensive or coded that I can see
Since when was secretaries code for women? When I was in the Navy I was an aviation maintenance adiminstrator. One of the many functions of that job was that I could be called upon to do secretarial work for our maintenace officer, which I ended up doing.
Now the last time I checked, I have the proper equipment to call myself a man. That's just a sexist assumption that all secretaries are women.
Also who do you think controled the apointment book for the maitenance officer? I did. Those that pissed me off it could be weeks before I could fit someone into his fairly open schedule.
As for mothers, yeah, that might be code for women. Unless of course you're parents are in a same-sex relationship and one of them is a drag queen. :-P
Seriously?
Actually, you got this wrong. This is a clear reference to people of power you should be affraid to piss off, may they be men or women. And I agree with Ed 100%.
If you have at one point made your mother angry, Im sure you regreted it in some way espetially when you were a kid. The boss' secretary, there are males of those you know, are probably the second most powerfull person in an office, they know everything, piss them off and you will suffer the consecuences accordingly. And...drag queen are men, I should point out, who rule over their lair with an iron fist.
I have known Ed to be a professional and respectful writer, your interpretation seems way off.
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I also don't think Ed meant anything misogynistic, and indeed could take offense that you reduce women to mothers and secretaries. And what does any of this have to do with The Yellow Wallpaper? Sounds like you just wanted to drop a literary reference. Ugh. Reactionaries like you are what makes me prefer the gayboys to my 'sisterwimmen' with whom I seem to have zero in common.
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain~ Louisa May Alcott
Be afraid, be very afraid.
Just to really make the point.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1218651/Thugs-attack-men-dresses--turn-cage-fighters.html
Hilarious
I just wached it and added it to my favorites on youtube
i love how they picked themselves up and ran away after the DQs kick their asses
Ugh...
I agree with everyone else, that he wasn't trying to subtly suggest that women are hysterical.
That having been said, so what if he was? I mean, do you really think that demanding a retraction and apology for a one line innocuous joke on a weblog is a reasonable reaction.
If you are trying to make the accurate point that all women aren't hysterical, you're doing a bit of a disservice to the cause.
What offense?
That's a list of people who hold great political power in any individual's personal life. It's not so much about their presence/absence of balls. It's about the fact that they've got you by the (metaphorical) balls. I fear them too, and I'm female myself.
don't think so
nope - but a 'pelvic massage' might help => see wikipedia entry dealing with female hysteria
and just in case: this might be helpful, too
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I second that motion!
Kitty
http://www.saveiantojones.com/
Wow!
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Got to chime in with the others in defense of Ed. It was clearly about power dynamics, especially since the person it was about was a man.
Also, Ed? The briefs guy? Hot! Hot enough to have been picked out by Snicks, who's by far the site's best briefs-guy picker-outer (no offense to anyone else).
Give the man a break.
"Out.com catches up with the reclusive Neil Patrick Harris, who supports, but isn't going to the the National Equality March."
Can't really blame him for being reclusive, considering that he got literally hunted down by fans (some of them must have been really rude; he had to leave several restaurants) all the time, when he visited David last week in NYC. He does pay inter alia for busses going to DC, so... come one, give the man a break!
That being said, mmmmh, briefs.
REALLY? WTF?
After highschool I got my vocational certificate in Office Management (aka secretary) and for quite some time was the boss's secretary at a firm. You didn't want to piss me off; for I could mess with you like nobody's business.
I'm a man and I'm offended that you would automatically assume secretary=woman. I guess you assume doctor to mean man? Nurse to mean woman? I'm very proud of my skills in that field and use them to this day. You have a very sexist attitude and perhaps could use some enlightenment.
You totally misread Ed's comment
I fail to see how saying "Kevin Be is hysterically angry" somehow translates into Ed characterizing his own mother, his boss' secretary and one drag queen he knows as also being hysterical.
And even if Ed were describing them that way (which he wasn't), his use of "hysterical" seems to reflect the common usage of the term as synonymous with hilarious, comical or extremely funny. Unfortunately, you seem to be hung up over the original derivation of word hysteria, which comes from the Greek word for womb, hustera. In that sense, hysteria - an uncontrolled emotional state - was once believed to be a condition of women originating in the womb. You're projecting your own anger over this terminology onto a situation that has nothing to do with putting down women.