If young males are as fanatic about this 16-year-old lesbian lookalike Justin Bieber, does that make ’em gay?
Not any more than a little boy’s admiration for Barney The Dinosaur makes him into beastiality, you jerk. Kids are kids, and they just want what’s cool. Even if “what’s cool” refers to “bangs.” NYT:
’Tween girls have been shrieking their appreciation for the 16-year-old pop star’s hair for the last year or so, and now boys are (subtly) requesting the style in droves. Just as every girl wants hair like Blake Lively of “Gossip Girl,” her brother wants to look like the artist who helped bring “Eenie Meenie” to the world. “Boys are embarrassed” to ask for the cut by name, said Ms. Friedman, adding that 6 out of 10 of her boy customers ages 10 and older want it. “He’s a teen heartthrob girls love; they don’t want to be associated with that,” she said.
In fact, male tweens who want the Bieber look are not only automatically gay, they might be automatically straight: They’re just doing it to get girls to run their hands through their locks. Just like Katie Couric.
Cam
Oh yeah, because heaven forbit that “Gay” be anything but a phase.
I get that requesting a haircut isn’t the same as hanging a poster up in their room. BUt has anybody else noticed that if an 11 or 12 year old boy steals a playboy it’s treated as “Wow, he is developing early” and “Well all boys are curious, it’s natural” but heaven forbid he steal a magazine with naked men in it, then suddenly the comments are “Well at that age they haven’t really come to understand sex, it’s a phase etc…”
I’m sorry, but mothers and fathers out there…if your teenage son has posters of Justin Bieber in his room, or has more than one magazine that features an interview with him, then Congratulations, your son is gay and will be a great help to you later in life, especially around the hollidays.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
If you listen to any interviews with Beiber Boy, the kid is kinda grounded and realizes the absolute absuridity of this whole Beibermania. His interview wish Chealsea Handler was mad funny. When Barbra Walters asked him his ideal woman, joking about his supposed cougar fantasies he replied “You, Barbra”
I really like Beiber Boy because he knocked the Jonas Brothers off the tween idol pedastal. Their whole non stop pontificating about being morally pure and waving those purity rings around when there are tons of stories out there ’bout Joe being a Gay boy, and Kevin and Nick have had numerous hookups makes me want to puke.
Goes to show it’s never too early for the rightwing to start lying about sex……………
Jeremy
@Cam: Does it go with Zac Efron, the Jonas Bros, or any of those “I’m 20 going on 15” Disney boys?
Roy
Well, in fact, America’s a little behind the trend here, this hair style was trendy here in Europe like 3 years ago. Interesting though.
Mark_in_Belgium
It shows that straight teen boys and straight teen girls are equally afflicted with the “no taste” gene … jeez
Henry Holland
I *wish* I could get my hair to do that. [shakes fist at wavy, frizzy hair]
Shawn
Believe it or not, younger people are going after these Canadian guys lately. Seriously, Jeydon Wale, Justin Bieber, Trayce Shaw…these are only a few famous Canadian teens right now (1 is officially Bi). 2 of them have gotten semi-famous (to teens) via youtube.
Cam
No. 3 · Jeremy
@Cam: Does it go with Zac Efron, the Jonas Bros, or any of those “I’m 20 going on 15” Disney boys?
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Yes, insert whatever name, shake, bake on 325 degrees for 15 minutes, and guess what mom and dad…you’ve got a gay!
Nick
Poor kid, will probs be on the drugs soon.
Hilarious
Pretty sure I saw a tumblr that’s proven Justin Bieber looks like thousands of lesbians around the US, he owes the credit of his famous haircut to them.
I don’t get the hype of these little “stars”. Generic R&B music has been around forever, but when I was a kid the teens singing it actually had amazing voices.
Hell Usher who’s the one pushing this kid on America still has the better voice. So I really just don’t get it. What’s the appeal?
terrwill
@Hilarious: A very well orchestrated publicity campaign, that’s what.
TonyD
It reminds me of the Mikey Cereal Commercials from the early 80s/late 70s. Gawd, I’m old, but I was on that trend before lesbians, before Bieber, before Zac, at 5-years-old! 😉
Devon
Back in my day we went crazy over the likes of Justin Timberlake and Ryan Phillipe.
I tell ya kids these days, they have no standards.
Kieran
Lesbian lookalike? So what do you suggest a cute 16 year old boy do….shear off those girly bangs with a military crewcut?
jeffree
Every generation’s got its pinups. My mom still has a poster of David Cassidy on her wall from the 70s — he did have might fine hair, gotta admit ! My poster was Jon Bon Jovi, lol, i always did like aged beef !
I don’t think Bieber has a great voice, but like others I’m glad the Jonas Bros are no longer on the cover of every dang magazine. Or Miley Cyrus.
ossurworld
Twinks, much like water, seek their own level.
Giovannidude
Bieber is so androgynous, he can be a sex object for both teenage boys and girls…and they could all be straight.
CONVERSATION CHAMBER
When I was a teenager…way back in the stone age of approximately 1992-1998, guys (well accept for those Kurt Cobain/Eddie Vedder wannabes) wore their hair cut low. No bangs. No ridiculously long, moppy curls. Just cut low, with maybe a tiny bit of width at the top.
It’s disturbing how today teenage boys today seek to wear their hair like kid Mikey on the Life cereal box (circa mid 70s)…John Schneider (circa Dukes of Hazzard)…or Joey Lawrence (circa 1982.) It’s either that flippy bowl cut or the Shirley Temple locks. Both look a bit too ‘dainty.’ I just don’t get the appeal at all.
adman
Who are these media whore “women” who flirt with a little boy like that? Heteros are so F’ing perverted, this whole post was creepy, Queerty. We are gay, we have to navigate this crap all the time, do you think we’re masochistic because of that? Sheesh..quit subjecting us to this sh*t. I personally like towleroad much more everyday, despite Queerty’s ease of navigation vs. theirs, but I am not willing to stomach your millennial gen crap to the degree I will click through endless links like on Towleroad. Sorry to set this up as a competition, but Queerty, you suck!
OnCloud9
whats a justin bieber?
Joey O'H
Twinks will go with whatever is hot at the moment. The music substance or lack there of is secondary. Every generation has a teen throb. Why him? I don’t know. He’s kind of a girly-boy. The music does not matter. Who can listen to it over the screams of young girls getting their periods for the first time at a Bieber concert?
What I find hysterical is the Bieber hair. Bieber’s hair-do is a hair-don’t. I can’t imagine these straight tween boys wanting a lesbian like hair style!
Ian
I don’t agree with the writer that if a male is a pre-teen kid he can’t be considered gay. Trust me, when I was under ten in the 70’s and first saw the Hardy Boys on ABC http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h140/hardyboy1/shaun_cassidy_hardy_boys2a.jpg particulary Shaun Cassidy, it was my first time starting to think of wanting to do things that were most certainly NOT childlike 🙂
As to Beiber, when I first saw him I thought he was vibbing Shane’s look from The L Word. If anything, if parents watch closely I think that more future lesbians may be exposed by Beiber Mania than anything.
Viral
@Giovannidude: It’s that a Family Guy joke about Scott Baio X3