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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Still on my Tivo. [Long transcript of Triumph the insult dog.]
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You know, when I found out the guy behind Triumph was also the guy (Robert Smigel or something?) who does the Amgibuously Gay Duo [dun-dun-daaaaaaaa], I thought for sure he was gay (NTTAWWT -- hey! I used it in the original sense of the phrase -- double points for me!).
But I listened to an interview with him on NPR (someone posted it here) and he couldn't be more like a soccer-dad (I invented that, by the way) if he tried! Talking about wife and 2.5 kids (I'm speaking metaphorically...) -- doesn't mean he's not gay, of course, but why bother covering it up?
Which brings me to another thing I've been pondering. My friend and I (this is the friend who couldn't stand the "baby talk" (?) after "intimacy" for those of you keeping score at home) have this yoga dude come to my friend's house once a week and give us a private yoga class (no, yoga is not a euphamism for deposition). Anyway, the guy (an excellent yoga teacher, by the way) is the ur-metrosexual. Unclear as to whether gay or not -- but I thought probably not.
Well, one time, he and I were talking and I said "hey my boyfriend in high school had that [rather unusual] name" (it was in context) and his response was, "Really? Me too! -- Ha ha, just kidding." So, whatever, I guess he's gay.
But then yesterday, he was mentioning a fiancee and how now he has a "child" because she has one.
So we are perplexed. We were thinking maybe he really meant his fiancee is a "he" and he was trying to throw us off the track.
Not that any of this matters, but my real question is why would THIS guy think that we would care whether or not he's gay? I mean, so what? Especially being the hip and urbane sorts we are (my friend and I, that is...), what do we care? It's not like we're living in backwoods Mississippi or some Islamic country (just a guess, but I'll bet being gay isn't all that in an Islamic country.) It's not like he's a high-school kid or just "finding out" about it -- or that he's in a profession where being gay would compromise his career. What gives?!?
Similar question about a friend of my husband's -- who I'm certain is gay, but hasn't admitted it (well, not to me, anyway, and probably not to himself.) If there is a set of parents in this world who would be more accepting of having a gay child than this dude's parents, I would be surprised -- so what' the big deal?
(Don't mean to start a big philosophical discussion, but I just don't get it -- especially if you're not in a gay-hostile environment.)
