Or,
All dressed up in gayface.
I can’t understand why more people don’t find Queer Eye offensive. I have many gay friends, and so far none of them have openly voiced an opinion of this thing one way or the other. Most of the straight folks I know think the show is a riot. I understand that it may represent a step forward for the community by helping establish gay culture as apart of overall American culture and not a closeted or in some way deviant life style. But frankly, the insinuation that as a straight man I don’t know how to dress my self is a little insulting. I look good, most of the time, and I loves me the women. I have known gay men in the past who couldn’t dress themselves without their mammas, though I admit most of my gay friends now have a pretty good fashion sense. Except Brad, but he’s funny, so he gets off clean. Love Brad to death, but he looks like the gay man’s Dave Attell. Also, I get a little miffed by the women I meet who think things like, “Wow that is a great suit you’re wearing, Jeff. I bet your boyfriend thinks you look great in it.” I don’t begrudge anyone their sexual preference as long as what you like to fuck isn’t a child or someone that doesn’t want to be fucked. Go nuts, all of you, really, I don’t mind. But please don’t make unreasonable assumptions about me because the five funny guys on TV teach you that only gay men know how to properly iron their own clothes.
So far, the only guy out there that I can find who thinks, like I do, that if the show were called “Black eye for the White guy” that suddenly everyone would get why it’s really a bit degrading is openly gay Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, who said (quoted from Newsweek), “The notion that gay men have a superior fashion sense is not true, and it’s damaging…..It’s perfectly possible to enjoy that show and say, ‘Look at those clever homosexuals – what they do with hair!’ And not support gays at all.”