Well, this:
Little Girl: “Hello?”
Me: “Hi, may I talk to the lady of this residence?”
Little Girl: “That’s me.”
Me: “I mean, may I talk to your mom?”
Little Girl: “I have two dads.”
Me: “Oh well, never mind then. Have a nice day!”
Little Girl: “Wait! Why did you call?”
Me: “I’m selling make-up.”
Little Girl: “Oh! One of my daddies loves that stuff, it makes him look pretty when he goes dancing! Let me give him the phone! Dad! Dad! Some girl wants to make you look pretty!”
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Comixbear
I was expecting either something cute or insightful…Instead, I just saw more stereotypes from Queerty.
RomanHans
The original URL includes the words “you couldn’t make it up.” Sure sounds like someone has.
Franky
Lol, saw this yesterday or the day before on the site. I look at the site all the time. It was pretty funny.
Charlie
@Comixbear: Oh lighten up.
What could the telemkarketer POSSIBLY have been selling to a Lady of the House” that wouldn’t have offended your Bear sensibilities? Beef jerky and power tools?
It’s an anecdote not some sweeping statement about all of queerdom.
Comixbear
@Charlie: I lighten up fine, thank you. I just didn’t care for an implication that one of a pair of daddies should be ‘into’ make-up. It was my personal opinion that all this story did was perpetuate stereotypes. I wouldn’t like a story like this if Glenn Beck told it and I don’t care for it if Queerty tells it.
Charlie
@Comixbear: So when something like the above happens it should not be reported because it doesn’t fit in with the image you most want to project about married gay men with children?
I don’t think the story implicates that one half of a gay couple ‘should’ be into make-up, it just tells us that one is.
Comixbear
@Charlie: Not everything in the world gay-connected has to be reported. I don’t care if someone is rugged, effeminate, or whatever they happen to be. I just didn’t find this story amusing and didn’t see why Queerty felt the need to post something so stereotypical. It wasn’t news, I didn’t find it funny and it didn’t have any value to it.
DR
@Comixbear:
It’s amusing to look at this from the perspective of a seven-year-old child who doesn’t have your prejudices and when she looks at one of her dads when he goes out she doesn’t think “gay stereotype”, she thinks “my daddy looks pretty”.
This was cute, and that was the whole point.
Comixbear
@DR: I think I’ll just have to agree to disagree and move on.
Miss Understood
@Comixbear: As a drag queen I am deeply offended by your perpetuating the negative stereotype that gays don’t wear makeup. While I do know some gays who prefer to go au natural there are also many of us who like to look pretty and we should be equally acknowledged.
DillonS
The joke isn’t offensive in the least … it’s just not funny.
Fitz
Swear on a stack of silly bibles…. earlier this week, I had to pull aside my not-ok-with-aging, straight boss to tell him that he forgot to blend his concealer.
d84
How did you guys end up creating such drama out of nothing?
Talk about perpetuating stereotypes…
uu
Complaining about this article perpetuating stereotypes merely serves to suggest that it is wrong for a man to use make-up, which it isn’t.
… Next they’ll be perpetuating the stereotype that gay men are attracted to men. Jeez!
Johnnya2
@Comixbear: Your post is not newsworthy, was not funny, and had no value either, yet you still posted it.
Is your position that some gay men do not wear make up? It is not a knee slapping funny story, but it is showing the disconnect a bitter bear like yourself has over the eyes of a 7 year old who sees nothing unusual about her father wearing make up, sees nothing unusual about telling a stranger she has two fathers, and sees nothing wrong with her father being “pretty”.
Newsflash, THAT is everything that every gay should want. The story is not about the make up, it is about seeing how a 7 year old has less homophobia than YOU do.
Zzee
@Johnnya2: Here, here. And to toss in the two cents of someone who worked as a makeup artist for a brief-but-sparkly-fun year, everyone and their mother is wearing makeup these days, okay? I have put it on the usual suspects, i.e. the most effeminate boys and girls living among us, but I have also sold cover-up to the burliest straight boys and lesbians you could imagine. At the end of the day, we all just want something to even out our red blotches and give us a clean finish. And if that’s wrong, well, I don’t want to be right. (That being said, I hope the dancing-father had the know-how to hang up when he realized he was talking to a Mary Kay rep. That junk will Dry. You. Out.)