Poor Arianna. She finally gets her Huffington Post staff to report its first original piece, and now they're getting slammed by those meanies at GLAAD.
You see, for some strange reason, those touchy media watchdogs (you know how sensitive The Gays can be) have their 2(x)ist briefs in a bunch because HuffPost's Amanda Fairbanks wrote an article called Sex For Tuition: Gay Students Using 'Sugar Daddies' To Pay Off Loan Debt. In it, she quotes people as saying that in the gay scene, all you really have is your age or your money (and don't I know it -- I have neither!), and that gay students "used the money (from prostitution) to afford the extravagant and often lavish gay lifestyle." (True, how else do you think I afforded living with my parents while going to Arizona State University?)
Fairbanks then writes, "Unlike in the straight world, many say they find working as an escort on the gay scene to be an accepted, even applauded practice." Another person tells her, "The gay community were really the first to embrace the sugar lifestyle, even more so than the straight community." (Totally!) She interviewed yet another person who told her that he "finds the gay culture more accepting of one-night stands and casual relationships." (Uh, hello! That's why we all have AIDS.)
Personally, I don't see a problem with this wonderful piece of journalism. And why challenge anything anyone tells you -- when you put little marks around something someone says to you there's no need to dig deeper. (Those little double-apostrophe-thingies mean they're FACTS, that's why you're not allowed to alter them.) And you know how The Gays are, anyway: We put the "extra" in extravagant. When we're not hookin' for books and trickin' for tuition, we're PNP-ing with tina and shaving our chests with Lady Gaga music blaring. (It's crazy -- we can't even remember what we're all about sometimes without a smart journalist to remind us!)
Tell the troops to keep up the good work, Arianna.
(You can tell HuffPost to pull its head out of its ass HERE.)
Thursday, September 01, 2011
GLAAD Acts Like Arianna Huffington Doesn't Know Everything There Is to Know About Sugar Daddies
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Yeah, cuz here in the rural north country where I live we're all about that extravagant lifestyle.
Nowhere in this article does it say that all gays live extravagant lifestyles, or that all gays are hooking for books, or that all gays even go to college It simply highlighted what some young gays in New York and Washington, DC have resorted to. You should really focus your anger on the fact that the cost of a college education has risen so high that people resort to prostitution just to get by.
Excellent. I have a Southern Baptist aunt who lives across the Bay. When I came to SF for work, I'd give her a call and chat.
She *always* had to warn me about MRSA and dancing with my shirt off because in her mind, being gay meant dancing with your shirt off and rubbing chests with a bunch of other gay men.
I'd laugh and remind her that I have no sense of rhythm and don't dance, besides, I was there to work and didn't even plan to go into the City from my hotel on the Peninsula.
No matter how much I protested, she always ended with, "At least leave your shirt on, Miche. Leave your shirt on!"
People are woefully misinformed about us even in areas with a lot of gay people. The media should try to dispel the myths, not blithely make them worse.
While many people may bitch and moan that the article is a sweeping generalization, I can say from at least the vantage of San Diego, Los Angeles and Palm Springs that the article is not that far off base. The gay communities in these area have a pretty good track record of pimping out the gay youths, but I don't don't necessarily look at that as a negative. Why shouldn't young gay people benefit off their attractiveness? We shouldn't have to live through some puritanical view set forth by the straight community nor the judgment of other gays who deem this lifestyle choice to be beneath their morals. I'm too old to do it myself now but it certainly raised my standard of living in my 20's and I refuse to feel guilt or shame simply because others think I should. Live and let live!
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