Queer Eye For The Straight Guy
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- CyBrainX0
If I were gay, I would be quite pissed. Every stereotype in the book is on that show.
That premise by Ronnypudding was so dead-on. I shake your hand for that completely enjoyable piece of brilliance.
- ********0
beasties are back, yo, beasties are back.
- Dolan0
Here's a good write up to help people 'get the cliche' angle, it's on the money.
- numero10
that show is annoying. And that blonde guy is the most annoying out all the gays idiots. He is worse than a bitch and he tells ppl how to dress when really he needs help.
kill them!
- cinder0
If they wanted to make a show out of people coming to fix a dirty person's house why did it have to be 5 gay guys?
because only gay guys know fashion?
There are plenty of straight men, and plenty of women who can fill that role.
It's for straight-laced WASP women to giggle and clap their hands to - wishing for their very own pet gay man to carry on their arm while they shop.
Or - actually - wishing for a couple of hapy-go-lucky giggly gay men to come "straighten" their man's fashion out!I mean, come ON.
Not to mention, Will & Grace is modern day Blackface comedy.
- cinder0
the blonde guy just needs to lose his mullet.
- steak&liquor0
Though I hate to say his name i think TransFatty needs to be on this show.
- ********0
haha, that one with the Jewish bald dude in NJ or wherever was classic, lol!
- monkeyshine0
Some college kid needs to write a thesis on the impact of QEFSG on contemporary male culture. I can't even count how many straight guys follow that show like a religion and changed at least one way.
- Geith0
The Straight Eye idea is good because I've worked with some gays that had NO style. We're talking powder blue business suits and shite.
- ********0
yep, sterotypes don't hold.
- Tara0
i love that show, it always puts me in a good mood
even the theme song is good.
you came into my life, you came into my life and you turned my world aroundall things keep getting better, all things keep getting better
- unknown0
I've bashed the show pretty hardcore a few times because I think it tends to paint this ideal that you have to be gay to know how to do certain things: buy wine, buy clothes, dress yourself, not live like a slob, cook well, etc.
But I've watched several episodes lately and I really do enjoy seeing men who were utterly aimless in their lives develop confidence and feel good about themselves. God knows we've seen women's shows do this for a decade at least, (Hi Oprah!)
The one that really sealed that for me was the recent one with the father who got rid of his hairpiece he'd had for 13 years.He looked great, he was confident and sure of himself, he was genuine in wanting to portay all of that to his children and not hide his baldness anymore.
I think that takes guts for some men.
- Tara0
yeah that was a sweet one, his wife was a gem, very supportive-that always helps
- ********0
yeah mg33, if you watch it you can see where it in no way portays gays as bad. They have the humor to make fun of themselves and in reality the do nice stuff for people. This kind of reality TV I can handle.
- missjillBK0
went to high school with Jai Rodriguez, same then at 16 as he is now on the show...its not exploitive, he's enjoying himself
- clownpuncher0
"and in reality the do nice stuff for people." - since when is homogenizing people and telling them what trends to obey doing nice things for them. let people be who they be.
- ********0
they don't homogenize anything, they leave it up to the people to make the choices. Video editing is always herky-jerky anyway. Stuff is totally taken out of context to make it entertaining. More power to them. Sure you can let people be themselves just with better taste. ;)
- unknown0
JazX,
I know what you mean, but I think it could confuse people.
Think about someone who doesn't really live in a big city, but has cable and has seen the show. They see all this stuff reccomended by these gay guys, and...I dont' know...I just have this feeling that if they ever come across a new friend, or a friend's family member and they are doing many of the things they've seen the 5 reccomend, maybe it makes them question the person's sexuality?I've been victim to those kind of assumptions before-because I was wearing Kenneth Cole shoes to wait tables and they were more than $150 and because they were nice/cool shoes, a couple people who didn't yet know me there thought I was gay.
My roommate jokes with people about saying that I'm gay and such for stupid things like the fact that I buy stuff at IKEA, or that I dress nicer than most of our friends, or have way more clothes, things like that.
What can I say? I'm not one to look like a slob, or be messy, look lazy, look unkept.
Sucks that when you're steps above that people will think and say things like that.
- ********0
mg33, your right, it's not for everyone, that's not what I am saying, but at the end of the day, every straight guy on that show and every GF associated with that guy seemed pretty damn happy about it. To me, it's just about cleaner living. I mean it's a bit biased anyway, they only work on people in the NYC Tri-State area and generally speaking, people in that area have an appreciation for style on some level or at least they are aware of it. I mean there are not doing this in West Virginia. But I mean someone's appearance, it should never say something about someone's sexuality but sadly it does. It's sad. :)