Life isn’t all fun and games for comedienne Margaret Cho. The 38-year old entertainer does, indeed, feel for disgraced Senator Larry Craig, a man who’s become a national punchline. Cho tells journo Julie Bolcer:
I feel sorry for him. I think it’s really sad. What a tragic character. He’s tragic. People like Ted Haggart [sic] – that’s tragic. Or Mark Foley. These are living tragedies. They’re people who want to be part of a society that does not want them, and so they’re willing to be secretive about their sexuality and hide who they are, and really who they are is not bad, it’s not criminal at all. But it drives them to sort of criminalizing acts. It’s really sad.
Cho also told Bolcer she thinks Hillary’s hot and “has got that ‘hot for teacher’ kind of feeling”. We’re sure Clinton’s tickled pinker than the pinkest labia.
[PS: Cho’s also promoting her NYC cabaret show, The Sensuous Woman.]
NeoAurelianus
I agree with Maggie. People like Craig are tragic. These men (and women) might as well be child molesters or rapist/murders since homosexuality is on the same level. I’m 51 and lucky enough to have lived without ever feeling forced to pretend I’m heterosexual. How many men or women of my generation can say the same?
What’s even more tragic is children and adolescents are still raised to repeat his behavior. Too many young men and women face overwhelming consequences if the truth is discovered so hide being gay/lesbian to everyone, including themselves, or live closeted, parallel lives.
I believe one day society will view sexuality comparably to eye or hair color but god only knows what millennium it will be…
ProfessorVP
Margie’s as stale as last week’s kimchee. She should come out herself as a lesbian, not a pansexual. What does that mean- you do it with Farberware? She’s married y’know. To a man.
GranDiva
What’s wrong with being pansexual?
ProfessorVP
Gran, “pansexual” is Latin meaning “I can make more money if I don’t say I’m a lesbian.”
Alexa
Nothing.
I think ProfessorVP must be one of those strange people who believes everyone is either 100% straight or 100% gay and thinks those of us somewhere in between don’t actually exist.
Dawster
all or nothing, 100% or 0%, with us or against us.
works well for George Bush…
ProfessorVP
Mensa Members: Did I say “everyone?” The topic was Margaret.
HapButters
ProfessorVP has a long unexplained of bisexuals and pansexuals on this board.
HEY VP: Not everyone fits into your neat little box. Many people like more than one gender sexually. DEAL WITH IT.
HapButters
excuse me for the type: and the missing word was….unexplained HATRED…for the win!
ProfessorVP
The topic is Maggie, and there is no empirical evidence she has sex with men. There are loads of bisexual women, but she is not one of them. The missing thing is not hatred, the missing thing is an adult brain in your head. When your hear something you don’t like, you assume it’s hate-based.
Alexa
No, sweetheart, you didn’t say “everyone,” but do you seriously believe Ms Cho’s audience is comprised of evangelical Christians and others who would turn on her if she came out as a lesbian? Use your head “professor.” Sometimes people are exactly who or what they say they are.
bangpound
I’m not gay! I’m just homosexual.
HapButters
I guess ProfessorVP wants in-person evidence before he’ll be convinced. It’s funny – I generally take people at their word when they id themselves, but ProfessorVP must have a good reason why it’s ok to always assume they are lying if they don’t fit easiliy into the boxes of gay or straight.
The point really is that you don’t have the ability to respect people’s choices without wanting to force them into one of those little boxes. I’m sorry Maggie doesn’t fit for you. And neither do a lot of us.
ProfessorVP
I’m from Maggie’s hometown, San Francisco. It’s a fairly large metropolitan area you may have heard of. I used to see her stand-up in person. She’s a lesbian. It’s no coincidence that when she started getting big offers, like the one for her lame sitcom for ABC, she became more pansexual, an idiotic term that has no meaning. The bigger the taste of moolah Maggie got, the more she wanted to appease a tamer audience. No, Alexa, I never said Christian evangelicals, doofus. But you can’t have a fat bank account just playing exclusively to homos. Maggie is not as revolutionary as she’d like you to think.
The Cho has no Clothes
Cho is whatever she thinks her audience wants her to be. To USA Today, she’s happily married (to a man), to her Gay audiences, she prefers women, to the BDSM crowd, she’s a big old bottom, and to the Dresden Dolls Crowd, she’s as bi as Amanda Palmer.
Alexa
Someone hates her so much they actually signed up specifically to attack her, I find that really weird. You do realize that she could actually be ALL those things? At one point in my life I was three of them (not into bdsm).
Right, professor. Because stand up is exactly the same as real life, it’s not a performance. Maybe you should learn not to take everything so literally, maybe you’d be a little less uptight and angry.
ProfessorVP
Hey Einstein, I signed up on queerty long ago. I forgot when but it was likely last year. Naturally when something sails over your head, the person speaking must be some Nazi psycho. This is how teensy the windmills of your mind are. I don’t have Margaret. I wish happiness for her and the love of her life. Money.
Did you even READ the article? Hillary Clinton has categorically denied she is a lesbian, and Larry Craig categorically said, “I am not gay, I never have been gay.” Margaret calls them both out for lying. Want to write a letter to Margaret scolding her for not taking them at their word?
Why are you so hot under the collar for me being on to Margaret and not miffed that Margaret is on to Hillary and Larry? Hypocrite dunce.
ProfessorVP
I meant “I don’t HATE Margaret.” And I don’t. She’s a funny little clown, maybe a bit robotic if you’ve seen her act often enough, but funny. No one should hate her for being greedy, that is not sufficient reason.
Es432
Wow, someone has an axe to grind!! You may have been from the same hometown as Margaret Cho, but that does not make you an expert on her personal life. It’s more than apparent that you have some kind of personal vendetta against her and anyone who is not simply gay or straight.
She’s pansexual/bisexual – that encompasses being married to a man, having multiple partners of multiple genders, and yes, being a big bottom and into a variety of sexual experiments. Have you seen ANY of her standup or read any of her writings? LOL. She has never shied away from any of this in any outlet.
Crazy much???
Alexa
Actually, professor, when I said someone signed up specifically to attack her, I was referring to the poster directly before me (“the Cho has no clothes”), not to you. I figured that was obvious, as I also referenced his or her comments in my response.
The next paragraph, about being uptight and angry, WAS directed at you. Obviously I was spot on.
ProfessorVP
My bad, Alexa. You and I have been hogging the board so much I thought it was directed at me. The first part, I mean.
Es, I never claimed to be a Margaret Cho expert. Only more important topics require expertise. I just meant I remembered her from before her greatest love arrived. Big money.
To all Margaret’s apologists, I reiterate: Hillary swears she’s no lesbo, and Margaret states quite clearly she believes Hillary is. Larry Craig swears he’s not gay, and Margaret not only states that she believes he is, but pities him for lying. Why does Margaret get a pass for calling a spade a spade, but I don’t? How come she’s Shirley Temple, and I’m the Big Bad Wolf? Yes, I think America would be a better place if Hillary Clinton and Larry Craig came out. I also think it wouldn’t hurt if Margaret came out as what she is. A lesbian. Again, why am I expected to swallow Margaret’s p.r. when she doesn’t buy into other people’s crap? Answer if you dare.
Scott Dagostino
I really don’t get this debate. I interviewed Margaret earlier this year for a gay magazine, and she easily and merrily chatted about the various men and women she’s slept with. If she’s not exclusively sleeping with women, why label herself lesbian?
Our issue should be with the Foleys, Haggards and Craigs of the world, who lie about their sexuality while harming our community. Margaret — gay, straight or in-between — has been one of us for a long time.
ProfessorVP
“If she’s not exclusively sleeping with women, why label herself lesbian?”
She is, and she should. But that would mean a pay cut. No, she has not been “one of us.” She has been an “honorary member”– close enough to get our money, but just across the county line enough to attract a bigger audience.
Again– why am I compelled to believe whatever lie Margaret says to keep her income high when Margaret does not feel obligated to believe what she knows is not true when Hillary and Larry spin their stories?
johnboib
Scott, what mag did you interview her for? I’ve never seen her do an interview like you describe. I think we should be a bit more vigilant as to who we idolize. Have you seen her blogs lately (check out the Gay Homo rap)? They are filled with Gay images and stereotypes I for one don’t appreciate. She’s changed and if we’re not more careful she can hurt us. And, as VP points out, it won’t hurt her because she’s never identified with us in the mainstream.