Seriously, what is wrong with a local city councilman, who is single and openly gay, looking for sex in his off hours? Do single straight people have sex? I think they do. Do they sometimes have it with people they’ve just met, at bars or parties? Why, yes they do. So is that the new standard – if you even vaguely intimate that you’re interested in sleeping with someone else, it’s news! Because straight guys, when they go to bars, they never go looking to get laid. Oh no. It’s only for a friendly platonic drink with friends. No sex, please, we’re straight.
There are a few things going on in this story. First, homophobia. How salacious that a gay man was looking to get laid (oh my!). Second, Internet-phobia. How salacious that someone used the Internet to try to meet another human being. Kate McGinty couldn’t have cared less had an unmarried heterosexual city councilman was using eHarmony to meet women (and he indicated in his profile that he actually might just consider sleeping with those women!)…
It’s abominable that this newspaper thought it relevant to write about this.
– John Aravosis taking the Desert Sun to task for writing a non-story about Desert Hot Springs city council member Karl Baker using a photo of himself in council on his Adam4Adam account. Must’ve been a reeeeeeaaaalllly slow news day.
Little Kiwi
This is an even more extreme example of the Anthony Weiner-style nonsense.
Why is this an issue? Why do people care? What is UP with Americans having priorities in the wrong place?
take a look online – you’ll find so many photographs of elected officials glorifying the use of guns.
this despite the fact that 30,000 Americans are killed EACH YEAR by gun violence.
where’s the uproar over that? people are too busy being angry about the sex other people are having.
the mind boggles.
http://youtu.be/R_OIjGKXrkU
B
No. 1 · Little Kiwi wrote, “This is an even more extreme example of the Anthony Weiner-style nonsense.”
Oh, it’s worse than that. Look at the picture of him – if that’s the one he used, he obviously was not looking for sex at Adam4Adam.com but was rather looking for people interested in a slumber party where they actually sleep!
The picture clearly shows him dozing off (hardly a surprise as he was probably listening to some constituent drone on about representing the Veterans of Foreign Women, which as 30 regular members, 15 associate members, 23 honorary members, and 3 interns who do the real work but don’t get paid for it.)
Tommy
How dumb of him to have his face pic open.He should have had it locked.He is also really nasty looking I bet he didn’t get many dates.He should be fired I don’t want my city councilman on adam 4 adam.
JKB
@Tommy: No, I’m sure you would rather them participate in surreptitious nepotism or cronyism…get a life.
Pocket Otter
Judging from that picture, I’m kind of guessing Mr. Baker doesn’t get a lot of responses in his inbox. Or his outbox. Or mailbox, toolbox, cereal box—let’s face it, the man may have been a victim of yellow journalism, but purdy he ain’t.
James
This is an issue because he used his city council picture (read the article to see the picture he used). If he had a personal picture and this article was still printed, I would find that more problematic.
And btw, what’s with the shallow comments? His appearance has nothing to do with the issue at hand.
ousslander
I don’t find it homophobic. He put his personal life out on display, so he can’t be mad that someone wrote about it.
Thomas Maguire
Since when did a bewigged Wilford Brimley come out as a homo?
JoeyB
He’s gross, like most guys on Adam4Adam.
Jon Tom
It’s nothing but an ole fashioned witch hunt! Who cares what he looks like!
Manny Espinola
“This is an issue because he used his city council picture.”
Really? Meaning the photo is government property? As in taken with government camera and/or uploaded on a government office computer?