Poor straight guys who are afraid of gay bars because all the homos are going to hit on them! Except the truth of the matter? You’re probably not cute enough. So explains The Real World: Brooklyn‘s Scott Herman: “I tell my friends all the time, because they automatically assume that if someone’s gay they’re gonna get hit on, and when my friends are ignorant and say stuff like that, I go, ‘You know, people, even if they’re gay, they still have standards. They’re not going to be just attracted to you ’cause you’re a dude and they’re gay. That’s not how it works.'” Then again, Mr. Herman absolutely meets — and exceeds — our standards.
Meanwhile, how gay was this week’s episode on the gayest season of The Real World? Let’s check in with Katelynn and J.D., the cute dolphin trainer who, you’ll remembered, is the rumored one-time lover of a one Anderson Cooper.
Chet and Ryan have become the pranksters of the house and start to mess around with JD using an alarm clock that sounds like a doorbell. Then JD sees that there is a banana in the fish tank with a condom on it and he believes that it could be Chet after Chet had already commented on JD’s condom stash.
JD tells the roommates that he’s almost positive that Chet went through his stuff and Sarah agrees to talk to Chet. When Sarah sits down with Chet, he denies everything. JD then decides to confront Chet but Chet still denies ever going through JD’s things.
Baya brings Katelynn and Sarah to a dance class that she finds as she starts to pursue her dream of dancing in the city. On the ride back to the house, Katelynn comes out to Baya and tells her about being a transgender. Katelynn also tells Baya that she doesn’t plan on revealing herself to Chet or JD.
Some of the roommates go out for the night and Ryan is dared to kiss a drag queen at a gay bar. Ryan kissed the drag queen on the lips and then called his girlfriend to admit that he kissed someone else but that she shouldn’t worry about anything.
JD comes home drunk and yells about a store clerk being an immigrant and not understanding English. Chet gets offended by JD’s comments and starts to get in JD’s face. The two guys start to yell back and forth while Baya tries to break up the fight. JD tells Chet that he’ll back off this time but the next time “it’s not going to be pretty” and tells Chet to go back to his Bible. […]
Chet and JD sit down to talk about their fight the night before. JD apologizes to Chet for not opening up sooner but that he has had a tough life. Chet believes that JD is being genuine and decides to bury the hatchet.
marco
I haven’t watched the Real World/MTV since the Chicago season (2002?)… but this season’s cast looks pretty interesting and a bit “more real”. I still probably won’t watch it — but I’ll enjoy the clips! 🙂
hephaestion
Halelujah! Real World Brooklyn is the best season they’ve had since Real World San Francisco. JD is great, and he gives a lot of hope to gay kids as well as kids with abusive or absent parents, and there are WAY too many of those.
Chris
I kills me that I know this but when you said JD was the prankster and that Katelynn didn’t want to reveal her being transgendered towards JD and Chet don’t you mean Ryan instead of JD in those instances?
ben
This recap uses JD’s name several places Ryan’s name should have been used.
You also left out amusing scene where Chet the very gay Mormon virgin who insists he’s not gay made a huge deal out finding of JD’s extra large magnum condoms and eagerly tried to get him to describe his cock in detail.
JD is very cute and seems like a good guy who’s overcome a lot. And the image of Anderson working JD’s big cock is a nice one.
Michael
As open-minded as JD purports to be, I find that Chet and Ryan have been more willing to try new things and been less judgmental of other people…despite their entertaining immaturity.
The Gay Numbers
re straight men thinking all gay men want them
Personally, I blame straight women. They give straight men, no matter how unattractive the guy is, the idea that personality is the only thing that count.
Buck
As for straight guys thinking every gay man wants in their pants…
My stock response has always been: “Honey, please don’t flatter yourself. You’re not nearly hot enough for a gay man to pay you any attention. Stick to desperate women.”
Tallskin
Absolutely spot on! all my life the ugly-as-a-pig straight boys assume that you’re after them!
Thing that really amazes me is that this doesn’t ease off with age. I am 52, keep myself fit at the gym, loadsa exercise etc etc, but straights of my age don’t – result: the ones that were uglyasfuck when 22 are now even uglier in their 50s but fat and unfit as well and STILL think that gay men are going to come on to them!
I worked about a year ago in an office with a middle aged straight man who was very paranoid about me making a pass at him! Weird.
Possibly this because we are always 18 in our heads despite our bodies ageing and crumbling around us. (Yeah, I know gays have this also.)
But I think for straights this is amplified by the fact that their sense of self stopped dead when they got married. They really do confuse their pre-married body state with the current reality. So, when they get paranoid about gays coming on to them they still think of themselves of being muscular and fit 20 year olds!
Does that make sense? LOL.
SONNIE
@ Talskin. Lol, i know what you mean. I have had straight friends who thought that at some point i would come-on to them because i am gay. When it never happened, the started to feel disappointed. They just did not appeal to me. Just because a guy is straight, does not mean that every gay guy is salivating to be with him.
Alan down in Florida
Sorry but I have a different view about straight guys. Even the homeliest of them think they can get a supermodel type. It’s delusional. It’s the same as the gay guy who’s a 5 on the food chain who thinks he can attract a ten. Wishful thinking.
Though some may find it offensive (and I apologize in advance to them), there is an old joke that sort of explains it.
The majority of men aren’t attractive enough to have sex with so God made woman to appreciate other qualities such as humor and ability to provide for them.
The majority of women aren’t attractive enough to have sex with so God made man think with his dick.
Reverse the pronouns and it is equally true for the LGBTQIA community.
chris
I agree with Michael. I think the people who claim to be open-minded and liberal, like JD, Sarah, and Kaitlyn, are the ones who are the least willing to budge from their own perspectives. Case in point: Kaitlin and Sarah’s diatribe about the evils of monotheism. I just thought that particular conversation was not only intellectually vapid, but also a bit rude considering that one of the roommates is a devout Christian. Also, JD’s drunked spiel about “people who dont’ speak English.” He kept on screaming, “well, my parents are immigrants, so I’m allowed to think this way.” That is entirely close-minded.
This season of Real World is much like the rest, so far at least. The last great Real World was probably New Orleans. Of course the best was San Fransisco.
JesusofAudacity
JD is cute but not prissy Di (in foto) too wite for me. yukness.
Lucky Pierre
Holy crap! Who watches these insipid shows?
John
I’m looking forward to the house burning down. every season should end with a house fire and the housemate with the most votes gets rescued by a team of firemen hand-icked for their ability to out-crunk each other. the ending credits would show the lone housemate in soot-face, crying while surrounded by crunking firemen.