Video: The worst gaydar ever
posted at 10:56 pm on November 25, 2006 by Allahpundit
One of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen on YouTube but also one of the funniest. Some moron evidently thinks the fact that a guy standing next to Brian McKnight at the American Music Awards had a few shirt buttons undone is smoking-gun proof that (a) McKnight’s a flaming homosexual and (b) shirt guy is his butt buddy.
It’s in the ‘Tube Top 50 as I write this. And climbing.
I want to believe it’s actually a sly satire of how people jump to conclusions about men seen together in public — e.g., “man-dates” — but … nope. I’m pretty sure it’s on the level. Even the YT commenters, as notoriously and reliably stupid as they are, are incredulous.
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Didnt AP go see “brokeback mountain” with another dude? I’m so confused….
lorien1973 on November 25, 2006 at 11:02 PM
Slow Saturday night, eh? I’m headed to a movie, how about you?
Scotsman on November 25, 2006 at 11:03 PM
It’s a Vicks VapoRub thang.
infidel4life on November 25, 2006 at 11:06 PM
The guy with the open shirt is SO not gay,he is totally trolling for the babes in his own ,uh,way,he is the wing man,clear as a bell.
bbz123 on November 25, 2006 at 11:07 PM
Seriously, Ace has a great point: just because guys are hanging out somewhere together doesn’t mean they’re gay. Get over it NYT – the world is not turning gay just because you’re desperate for attention from the same sex.
thedecider on November 25, 2006 at 11:22 PM
This is just one of those jealousy things. McKnight is a pimp so everyone wants to hate him. They’ve done it to Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, and any other dude that the ladies make a big deal over. Not that there aren’t legitimate reasons to hate on Pitt and Cruise, but I won’t call them gay out of jealousy, simply because they get filthy rich hot Hollywood broads.
RightWinged on November 25, 2006 at 11:32 PM
Brian McKnight who?
Enoxo on November 25, 2006 at 11:35 PM
Ha, just skimmed over some of Ace’s “mand-date” post… I think it kind of depends on geography. While I was born and raised in VT, I lived in Nashville for the past 5 years, and if I went out to eat with a friend, etc. I didn’t feel like everyone in the place might wonder if we were gays. But now that I’m back in Vermont and I’m eatting somewhere with my brother, cousin, or friends, I do feel like they’re wondering. I mean, if you’re a big fat dumpy lookin’ dude, you don’t have to worry about it. But that’s not the case for us, and if not VT where else, ya know?
Thanks to Howard Dean making us famous as essentially “the gay state” 6 or 7 years ago, this place is a haven, so it’s tough for people to not have in the back of their mind “I wonder if they are a couple a turd burglers?”
RightWinged on November 25, 2006 at 11:37 PM
Geez, we gossiping about people we never even heard of?
StuLongIsland on November 25, 2006 at 11:44 PM
LOL. Thanks for giving us a new expression this mid-western boy hasn’t heard yet.
thedecider on November 25, 2006 at 11:58 PM
…being seen out about the town isn’t “gay”.
…being seen out about the town holding a man’s hand…now, that’s “gay”.
…being seen out about the town holding a man’s…er…special attraction…now, that’s really “gay”.
…standing next to a guy with a shirt open down to his…er…special attraction, that’s not “gay”. If it were, there’d be Italians all over Boston buttoning up….
…oh…and that whole “metrosexual” thing…that’s “gay”…Oh, yeah…”gay”….
Moisturize? “Gay”. Manicure? Might as well blow the manicurist afterwards…busted….
Leave us not be too…er…quick on the draw to worry about our sexuality…or anyone else’s…unless it’s a slow Saturday…and you need a date….
Puritan1648 on November 26, 2006 at 12:00 AM
not that there is anything wrong with that.
lorien1973 on November 26, 2006 at 12:14 AM
Wish I could take credit. I also wish I could spell… burgler = burglar. Anyway, I believe I heard it about 4 years ago on a friend’s Rodney Carrington CD we were listening to in the truck.
RightWinged on November 26, 2006 at 12:16 AM
– Tim Calhoun
RightWinged on November 26, 2006 at 12:25 AM
Some turd-merchant with too much time on his hands… That is powerfully weak “evidence”.
x95b10 on November 26, 2006 at 12:49 AM
I don’t know about McKnight but that guy behind him is most definitely not gay.
No gay man would ever be caught wearing such a horrid tie as that.
The Ugly American on November 26, 2006 at 12:55 AM
I just got in from my date and thought I’d look in…
…you folks need a date.
I mean, just look at this whole thing.
TheSev on November 26, 2006 at 1:33 AM
Most of us have a wife. How about you? Uncommitted?
thedecider on November 26, 2006 at 1:43 AM
No opinions until your skillz have been rated:
http://www.okcupid.com/gaydar
I got a 70%, which is ok, because gay people have better gaydar.
pedestrian on November 26, 2006 at 2:45 AM
I need sooo much more evidence than two buttons to declare him my beeatch. I want to see him scampering gracefully in white satin pumps with froo-froo thingies on the toes.
laelaps on November 26, 2006 at 5:38 AM
In my line of work there are lots of gay guys and sometimes the straight guys over do it when they don’t want anyone to think they’re gay…
Straight male Flight Attendant: Dude, you shoulda seen all the hot chicks on this flight.
Me when I was a Boarding Agent: Yeah? That’s cool.
No dude, I mean, they were HOT CHICKS!
Uh huh, that’s nice, I’ve got work to do so uh…
No man, you don’t understand, these chicks were freakin’ HOT!
Alright already! I get it! You’re not gay! I never thought you were! Sheesh! I live in Ft. Lauderdale, I see hot chicks and gay guys every day!
Oh, ok, like totally, dude.
Tony737 on November 26, 2006 at 9:50 AM
I thought all male flight attendants were gay myself. At least all the ones I’ve seen certainly seemed that way.
lorien1973 on November 26, 2006 at 12:16 PM
troll job complete. mediatakeout for teh win.
Metro on November 26, 2006 at 12:17 PM
This comment on GoogleTube made me laught out loud..
Many of you know I’m gay, but I can tell you that having a kid is no indicator if a man is straight. Trust me on that one!
But, really, what is this almost obsession with gays wanting to “out” celebrities. WHO CARES?!?!?
SouthernGent on November 26, 2006 at 1:31 PM
Lorien, it used to be that way, but now we’re slowly taking over the field, ’cause it’s a great way to meet “like totally HOT CHICKS, dude”. Mrs737 is a F/A, I met her when I was a gate agent, now we both fly and I keep seeing more straight single guys. They seem to like the overnight hotel situation with female Crews, not sure why :-)
Tony737 on November 26, 2006 at 2:32 PM
Yeah dude, my cousin used to be an f/a for Continental and when she started she said 50% of the male f/as were bone smugglers (my words, not hers). Sucks because that seems like a pretty cool job – the money is decent, you get to travel, etc. But you might as well cut hair or be an ice skater for a living if you’re considering what people are going to assume about you .
RightWinged on November 26, 2006 at 4:44 PM
The last time I flew United Dulles-Frankfurt the bidness class the male F/A was Filipino and Flaming Gay, complete with Repeated Circular & Ostentatious Hand Gestures, lisping, overly tight slacks, crotch-staring, and other Clues
guess he isn’t part of the trend that Tony737 is noticing…
Janos Hunyadi on November 26, 2006 at 7:32 PM
He could so be one of those seat fillers for when presenters get up , or someone has to hit the head. SO what??
seejanemom on November 26, 2006 at 7:33 PM
R.W., it really is a great job and I doubt any passengers think I’m gay nor do I care if they do. This job is way too cool to worry ’bout that.
Janos, yup, there are some seriously feminine male F/As that could set the plane on fire! But that just makes it even less likely that anybody would assume that I or any other *very* straight F/A were gay.
When I first started with SWA as a Ramper (baggage handler) and on my way to training, everybody I came across (gate agents and F/As) asked “Oh, you must be going for the Ramp, huh?” At first I couldn’t understand how they knew it, until I saw a male gate agent who was lisping and waving his hands around. “Oooooh, now I get it!”
Actually, I THANK all the gay guys who opened up (so to speak) this job for us “breeders” as they call us.
Tony737 on November 26, 2006 at 8:20 PM
Enoxo,
We’re Blazing Saddles men in a Metro-Sexual world. None of this makes any sense because it’s senseless Urban-World schtick.
Whatever.
Jaibones on November 26, 2006 at 9:50 PM
Hollywood. In every line of work, and everywhere.
Entelechy on November 26, 2006 at 11:19 PM
Hollywood. In every line of work, and everywhere.
Entelechy on November 26, 2006 at 11:19 PM