Bill O’Reilly, ever America’s rational voice on homosexuals, was on the teevee (last week, sorry!) reminding viewers that, just like him, they can consider themselves completely free of bigotry so long as they rationalize their arguments with phrases like “national security” and “being comfortable in the barracks.”
Bill O'Reilly
If You’re Not Comfortable Changing Clothes Around Homosexuals, That Doesn’t Make You Anti-Gay
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Kieran
I’m sure there are lots of whites who aren’t “comfortable” living in close approximation with blacks in military barracks (And vice versa) So what? Eventually, they learn to get over their prejudice and those who can’t get past their bigotry leave the US armed forces. What nauseates me most about this clip is O’Reilly’s smug indifference to gay service members—-who risk life and limb protecting his pompous ass everyday—- being forced to hide who they are in order not to offend the homophobes.
Qjersey
Straight men are just terrified that gay men might treat them the way they treat straight women.
MitchNYC
@Qjersey: Probably!
The Artist
I think that Bill O’Reilly is brilliant! 😉
Paul Ransom
Usually the the straight guys who are most worried about another gay guy staring at them while undressing or showering usually are they type of guys that most gay men would be least likely to stare at in the first place.
Philip
As if any self-respecting gay man would take a glance at his package? Pulllllease. Not if he were the last reichwingtool on the planet.
B
Regarding QUEERTY’s headline, “If You’re Not Comfortable Changing Clothes Around Homosexuals, That Doesn’t Make You Anti-Gay” … but it does explain why so many straight guys wear clothes that don’t fit. They’re afraid to try them on in clothing store due to all those gay sales people, much less ask for advice!
If we are going to mention stereotypes, we might as well make them funny.
Bill
“If You’re Not Comfortable Changing Clothes Around Homosexuals, That Doesn’t Make You Anti-Gay”
Dear Straight Folks,
We love you. Really. We do.
But have y’all looked in the fucking mirror lately, fat asses?
Seriously.
Hope that didn’t sound TOO bitchy. ; )
Love ya, mean it.
AlwaysGay
HETEROSEXUAL males are already looking at each other.
rainfish2000
@AlwaysGay who wrote: ” HETEROSEXUAL males are already looking at each other.”
Ain’t that the truth! I remember one time, when I went to a Drive-in theater with my partner, how uncomfortable I felt using the public john. At this particular theater, the urinal was a gutter-like thing built into the titled floor with water running constantly through it. It was sort of like pissing into an indoor artificial creek at shoe level. But that’s the Midwest for you.
Well, anyway, I went into the men’s room to shake the dew off the rose when, all of sudden, ten or twelve other men started lining up beside me. Stupid me, waiting for the intermission. And I’m pee shy too.
I desperately had to go, and I couldn’t reel it back in to go to a stall because they were all full — so, I stood there sandwiched, shoulder to shoulder, in between two young guys, a few years younger than me (I was in my early thirties at the time) and feeling the pressure to perform — peeing, that is.
But, this one dude kept staring at my Mr. Happy as I tried everything to distract myself, so I could pee. I tried looking at the ceiling…thinking of heavy rainstorms…waterfalls…drowning at sea…etc. Still, no go, absolute bladder lock and this dude’s eyes fixed, riveted on my junk like a mongoose on snake.
Yes, I know it’s impressive, but jeez, I really had to go and, instead, I just stood their with my appendage hanging out; frozen in place like an anatomically correct manikin as all of the other dudes went splishy, splatter all around me and finished doing their thing.
Finally, I gave up and left.
When I came back outside, where my partner was waiting for me slurping on a Big Gulp, which did not ease my suffering, I told him what had happened.
Then, standing a few feet away, the blond guy, who had previously been staring at my tool in restroom, walks over to his girlfriend and says, quite audible, “Hey, you know that fag over there just stood next to me with his dick out and didn’t even take a piss.”
My partner got angry at that and said, even louder, “Well, if you weren’t staring at his dick so much, maybe he wouldn’t have had a problem going!”
The punk turned about three shades of red, and started towards us, but my boyfriend (and now legally wed spouse), who is also a veteran of the US Air Force, dared him to pick a fight (my dude would have cleaned his clock) so the punk backed down and went skulking away with his skanky girlfriend.
I went back later, to a stall, to pee in private.
So, yes “straight” dudes do size other dudes up — in the showers; in locker-rooms; on nude sites on the Internet, and anywhere there are naked guys to be found, gay or straight. It’s human nature. But, sometimes it’s just plain rude if you’re too obvious about it – Gay or Straight.
But for some homophobes to make a “Gay issue” out of this in the military smell more than a little like a “guilt turns to hostility” reaction (like my “straight” voyeur) because it really has nothing to do with anything of any consequence in a professional military setting.
Everybody is a little queer inside, and I think that this red herring about “privacy” in military barracks and in the field just serves only to highlight some internalized homoerotic fears on the part of the hypocritical accusers and ersatz prudes.
As Shakespeare once wrote: “Methinks the lady doth protest too much!”
JM
@rainfish2000: Aaaw! I felt so bad for you while reading your post… until I heard about your guy backing you up like that. What an awesome guy! Oh, and well worded, too! =^_^=
scott ny'er
Ugh! They need to get over themselves. I find it so funny at the gym, when dudes wrap their towels around their waists and struggle to take off their underwear while keeping the towel wrapped around them so no one won’t see their junk. And usually, it’s some dude who is unattractive or has a crap body. So stupid.