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Fuckin' right. George Takei for President!!!!

I'm on Team Amy. The only David Sedaris essays I like are about Amy. In particular, the one where he talks about Amy wearing the Jerri Blank fat suit on a flight home so she could fuck with their father all day long and nearly give him a heart attack. I just don't think he's nearly as interesting, even if his writing is a wee bit smarter and more mature.

I mean, have you read Wigfield? Did you watch Strangers with Candy? Have you taken in the beauty of her telling Martha Stewart that Worcestershire sauce is bong water and otherwise annoying the crap out of her? Have you? Team Amy to the end.

What Casper said.

It’s great that this woman wants to support her son’s right to cross-dress, but let’s not get carried away and start calling any infant names. This sort of wrong-makes-a-right action is hardly helpful.

I assure you, Caspar, this woman would agree with you. In fact, that is the exact point she makes in the actual post. Once you get to read it, you will understand.

And yes, I am Team Amy. In fact, she made me discover that I have a sexual fetish for women that make me laugh. Why else do you think I stick around here?

Trust me, wanting to be defiled so many ways by Jerri Blank (before I knew how different she looked out of the makeup) is a real testament to her talent in my book.

I was honest-to-God jealous of Ricky. Her imaginary boyfriend. I gots the Amy Sedaris love BAAAAADDDD.

OK, great. Knee-jerk reaction over. It's just the headline was worrying; thank god for sensible people.

Caspar, the article begins by saying, "Or he’s not. I don’t care. He is still my son. And he is 5." She's not exactly taking a stance on her son's sexuality.

Apparently some of the other mothers in his class flipped out on her for allowing him to dress up as a girl (but, as usual, the kids didn't give a shit).

That thing about the Daphne kid pretty much crashes my computer before I get to look at the full article, but before my computer crashes I’m able to see the headline, “My Son Is Gay”. Er, didn’t we just say the kid was five years old? I don’t want to sound all high and mighty, but just as gay people are rightly annoyed with heteronormative behaviour from adults towards children, and from society in general, so it also goes – in my view – that people shouldn’t be assigning a sexuality of any sort to their children. It’s great that this woman wants to support her son’s right to cross-dress, but let’s not get carried away and start calling any infant names. This sort of wrong-makes-a-right action is hardly helpful.

Posted by: Caspar at November 4, 2010 12:22 PM

So you didn't actually read the article, which begins "My son is gay...or not", and then details why that isn't even the main issue at hand.

Nice to see that while your internet may be slow, your ability to jump to uninformed criticism isn't.

One word of advice for the Ms. Montag:
"Porno"

Get after it.

Caspar, if you can access the site from a mobile phone that is the easiest way to load the Nerdy Apple Bottom article. It loaded up quickly on my phone, but took a while on my browser. There are over 3,000 comments on the article, so it's a bit slow. A lot slow.

Good on that woman. I would have had the same reaction had anyone dared to make a nasty comment about my child dressing in a costume of the opposite gender for Halloween. Children don't have sexuality and therefore don't really understand what gay or straight is. Why worry them with that shit before they are ready? Let them be kids. They'll have enough time to develop their sexual baggage once they hit puberty and until the day they die.

Kelly, blow it out your ass. A headline reading, "My son is gay" is all the information I need to make a judgement call when the child is 5 years old.

Dude why did all the comments load so weirdly? Now I am embarrassed for being the eleventy millionth commenter to say Go Read The Article.

If I was Charlie Sheen's Sober Coach:

TB: Yo, Chuck? Don't drink.
Sheen: Right, right. I really feel good this time.
TB: Glad to hear it. (Drinks some of Sheen's hideously expensive scotch.)
Sheen: Uh, you're my sober coach. Why are you drinking?
TB: What? I gotta be sober to be a sober coach? You're the alky here, not me. You think Andy Reid can do what Trent Cole can do? Fuck no. Now shut up and try not to shoot any women for the next 20 minutes.
(TB shoots a woman)
Sheen: What the hell, man!
TB: HEY! I don't have to not shoot women in order to tell YOU not to shoot women! Now go get me some hookers and blow. You've got a workout and I've got two hours to kill.

Kelly, blow it out your ass. A headline reading, "My son is gay" is all the information I need to make a judgement call when the child is 5 years old.

Posted by: superasente at November 4, 2010 1:11 PM

Even when the article in question immediately undermines the stability of that claim?

Ok then. Carry on.

Alright people, play nice now. It was a mistake, he apologized, let's all just move on and enjoy the rest of our days now, okay? Jeez, it's hard enough keeping people from calling me a filthy whore and a hack writer, now I have to keep you guys from arguing?

Goddammit, where did I hide the peach schnapps...

I haven't gotten past the first link, and I wish I had followed my usual instinct to yawn and move past any item about that particular couple, because I got to the part where Spencer is looking at how to receive unemployment, and I think I had a rage-induced seizure. There's blood everywhere, and I don't think it's all mine.

No one who ever made so much while doing so little deserves unemployment. They couldn't make it on $10 million? Most of us make it on far less than that, and we actually WORK for it. Hell, I work for a university where my salary actually goes DOWN every year because the merit raises don't come close to matching inflation, our insurance premiums rise, and we have to pay a fortune for parking permits. I could live the rest of my life on $10 million easy. Someone buy these assholes a Budgeting for Dummies book.

The only way Gwyneth should be singing that song is if she changed the lyrics to "Fuck GOOP, and fuck me too."

Everybody sing along!

I couldn't read the article. I'm not apologizing for having a harsh reaction to an irresponsible headline.

I think it's funny that even Casper's comments echo what they mother said you still piled on for not having enough info to form said opinion. The mother said she is not willing to label her kid one way

on the other hand I do approve of the throat punch to soberiaty method...come here lindsey!!!

Love George Takei. Wouldn't it have been even better if he had used the term "sentient life form" instead of human being? Posted by: PaddyDog at November 4, 2010 1:51 PM

"Sentient" would be the sticking point.

An "irresponsible headline"? The hell? This isn't the Washington Post.

"blow it out your ass"

Yes, do that.

Christ.

Amy Sedaris is awesome and funny and weird. Just wanted to throw that in there.

Headline: "Are HIV Positive Snakes Hunting Your Children (Who Are Probably Having Pre-Marital Sex)?"

I don't need to read the article to see that a headline is irresponsible. If the article was about a mother who defends her son's costume in school, and about not assigning gender roles too early, then the headline should have read, "Mother Defends Son's Costume" or "Family's Halloween Struggle." There are a thousand different titles which could have given some indication to the content of the article beside "My Son Is Gay." An headline that starts "My Son Is Gay" regarding a 5 year old kid -- that's irresponsible.

Like Caspar, I'm releived to hear that the context of the article had a more reasonable, responsible tone. I sincerely thank those who were able to bring that to our attention like you (Vermillion), Wednesday, Phaeolus, and Anne in Reno. I'm releived, becasue like Caspar, I don't think we should be assigning sexuality to young children.

Now, I'll admit I got a little heated at Kelly's comment. She wrote, "Nice to see that while your internet may be slow, your ability to jump to uninformed criticism isn't," which isn't a helpful or informative comment, but a nasty condescending one. For that, she may continue to blow it out her ass. I wish it weren't that way. Whatever is coming out of her ass probably belongs there. But I don't make the rules.

opps sorry lindsEy your right I still say hohan and sheen should be a reality show don't try to fix em lock em in a hotel give em a pile of blow set up camera's and just whatch the fun

Regarding the 10-year-old who gave birth, it is a bit mis-leading to just throw the story out there. She is a member of the Roma and while we find her behavior and her mother's reaction scary, it is the norm for her community and culture. Implying that the mother finds it to be fine without providing the context that the mother probably was herself married and having children at the same age is unfair. My mother works with Irish Travelers who have the same customs and it's ingrained in their siciety that they should mate and have children as early as possible: perhaps because even to this day their average life span is 50 for a woman and 47 for a man. It doesn't make it right, but it does provide context to understand this.

Goddamnit, I meant tale, not tail.

Superasente et al.: I apologize for my jerkish initial response to Casper. Honestly it was meant to point out what I saw as the ironic flaw which underlay his argument, but perhaps contained a surplus of bitchiness. I was ultimately horrified that because of a lag in posting times it just added to a redundant pile-up of criticism, but kudos to him for handling it like a champ.

However, can we stop speaking about my ass's blowing capabilities now? It would prefer to sink back into anonymity where it belongs...

"And in fact, you fell victim to almost the exact same judgmental type of bullshit that the people she mentioned in her article did..."

Don't group me in with bigots, dude. I have no problem with a 5 year old kid dressing up as a girl for Halloween.

"No, it's not [irresponsible]. Would you like to know why? Because it's a personal blog, not a CNN article. An individual is entitled to write their personal blog however the fuck they wanted."

That's weak sauce. Believe it or not, people are capable of being irresponsible even if they don't have a column in the Washington Post, or a news show on CNN. The article was not about some woman's gay kid. If your argument is that she can run her blog however she likes, then I can bitch about the way she runs her blog however I like. None of us need integrity.

What I find most interesting is that, superesente, is that the title doesn't actually refer to her son's age - it's not "My five year old son is gay", but simply "My son is gay." In fact, the only way for you to know her son's age would be to read the article, which would then explain the title and give the story context, thus removing the need to get all huffy about it.

What actually happened here is that you read Jeremy's blurb about it, and then got upset about the title, which isn't particularly fair to the writer of the blog post. If you didn't have any of Jeremy's information, you simply would have seen the title "My son is gay" andp robably (hopefully) not been upset about it. Then, perhaps you would have read it and found it to be interesting and/or charming (which is was).

So in that sense, you were being pretty unreasonable, in my opinion. You judged a title based on information that it didn't actually give you, because you had read something about it in advance.

And that is what caused this whole confusing mess.

kelly, you weren't overly bitchy. If you weren't bitchy at all then this wouldn't be Pajiba so don't worry. superasente must just be in a bad mood because he can usually bitch with the best of 'em. That's why we love you guys.

Yay!

Let's all make out.

Geez, buy a girl a drink first, would you?

Community is awesome, Hilary Duff is awesome. Community + Hilary Duff = Mind explosion

I want to marry coveredinbees. I was honestly gonna shout at my computer to STOP REPEATING SHIT OMG I THINK HE GOT IT GODDAMMIT.

OK so I did it. But now I have Hamm and a place in my heart for coveredinbees. *sigh* Look at that chesthair. That's a real man right there.

So now everyone just shut the hell up and let's all stare at Jon Hamm. DO IT.

I would like to second ERM's LOUD NOISES and add that I LOVE LAMP. Also, there were horses, and a man on fire, and I killed a guy with a trident. I believe that renders all other arguments invalid and opens up this thread for the erotic taco dip/Scrabble sexin' to commence.
BOW CHICKA, CHICKA, CHICKA BOW WOW!!

pat C, God didn't have any part in it. Early onset puberty has been linked to many things like chemicals and hormones in the environment and the rise in obesity. We did this to ourselves.

George Takei/NerdyAppleBottom 2012!

starbust: There is something seriously wrong with you. I fear for you. I mean COME ON. I'll blame the pregnancy.