



Wow, we don't know what kind of teenie-bopper drama's going down, but young homo-journo Cal Roscow sure is pissed about fag-hags.
Head on over to British queer-tween-zine Puffta and you too can read his venomous column on over-zealous girlfriends and their patronizing ways. With the bitchiness only a fagling could muster, Roscow rails against "the over-egotistical fag-hag – a plague that’s been sweeping the nation ever since Sex and the City." (The piece really wouldn't be complete without a reference to the long-departed series.)
While we've certainly had our rows with our straight girl-friends, Roscow's words read more like a death sentence. Penning what he presumes to be some sort of revolutionary call to action, Roscow writes:
We have had enough! No more fake compliments, fake interest in our lives, fake boobs and fake friendships. Do you actually think we need your endorsement of every activity we involve ourselves in? We know we’re fabulous; we love our own outfit and our amazing good looks go without saying, so don’t say it.
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Ok so you are good company in a bar. But if we’re in a bar, we’re most probably drunk and distracted by buff guys and if you’re only tolerable whilst we’re intoxicated, why do you insist on mind-numbingly boring coffee sessions in which we can pretend to be interested in your disgustingly heterosexual relations... As much as we do care, we don’t.
Reading his piece made us think two things. First, we wish we were still teenagers and fag-hag related problems were the bulk of our drama. Second, we're glad we're adults and have the balls to tell people to go fuck themselves.
Hmm... someone's gonna end up alone. Because suddenly, he'll be nursing a broken heart (or worse) and where will the girls be that cared to, nay, dared to! take interest in him as a human being. Yawn. I'm too old to even write a real rebuke.
Or he could be totally revolutionary and lean upon the shoulder of a man. Although, I can't quite feel his level of vitriol, I must profess to having little need of fag-hags in my life as well. I've grown out of that phase of my life and now my friends are almost all male (nearly half of whom are straight). And the few females left aren't sycophantic hangers-on who exist solely to validate one's "fabulousness" and vice versa.
Historically fag-hags have been the fairest of fair weather friends. During the 70’s frustrated straight chicks flocked to gay bars so they could disco. As soon as HIV came on the scene they fled to the burbs to join Concerned Women for America, Focus on the Family and became Soccer Moms, Security Moms, Mary Kay reps or that bitter man-hating thing that runs your Corporate Board Room.
Then came “Will and Grace” (not “Sex in the City”). Where else but corporate run lowest IQ level television could fags and fag hags learn how to live, dress, act and misbehave?
All those fags looking for rich bitch Karen and only finding (soon to be bitter Christian fundie) Grace. What really became important was the drinking. Grace went out with the boys with a purse full of Trojans and dick on her mind. After a dozen Stoli’s and what ever, the boys might loosen their 2xist chastity belts and go for some pussy. Gag me later.
I agree with the writer somewhat, in the sense that too many FG's treat us too much like children, or sisters. We may be homosexuals, but we're still males and treating us like women is insulting. We're happy to be your friend, but not your girlfriend.
just look at the photos and posting below and that will determine how irrelevant the issue of fag hagdom is.
jack jett
Yes, too many fag-hags secretly wish to seduce their gay friends. However, his anger seems to be aimed at women in general, "screechy females." I have little sympathy for those who boast that they outgrew female friends or when gay men boast that they are still males, as opposed to inferior females. Those statements may not have been intended to sound that way, but they do.
"I have little sympathy for those who boast that they outgrew female friends..." Who is asking for sympathy? It's simply a place where some (arguably many) men find themselves. I no longer wish to trade gossip while sipping on fruity little cocktails while some "fag hag" goes on and on about her insipid and overpriced handbag from some designer I've never heard of nor could care a thing about. Are all women this egregiously cloying? No, which is why I still have some female friends. They simply aren't what I would refer to as fag hags. Don't confuse the disgust of fag-haggery with misogyny - nor lay it on someone else's shoulder.
>...or when gay men boast that they are still males, as opposed to inferior females.
No one is asserting their maleness, nor inferring that females are inferior. Merely pointing out a truth.
I don't treat my lesbain friends like men, I don't treat my effeminate gay friends as if they're women and I don't treat my straight female friends as if they're gay men. So in return I ask that female friends don't treat me like one of their girlfriends.
>Those statements may not have been intended to sound that way, but they do.
You may not have intended to sound like a shithead, but you do.