Im wearing blue jeans on friday...

tweety28

will anyone actualy care?, im not gay but still i alway wear jeans and im not too bothered about changing that in case ppl thing im gay..... does anyone actualy take notice of theese things?

Boston

You're a blatant homosexual.

Moorsy

Yep, if I remember correctly people actually harass you and sometimes even kick you. The whole point is actually to catch people out who haven't seen the signs/got the e-mail. It's a very funny joke. The best way to avoid it is to either not come into college are try and wear yellow trousers so nobody can get even the littlest bit suspicious.....

I think I’ll buy some red or yellow jeans, I’ve lost the ones I usually use…

manicmonoliths

I wont be in on friday anyway, but the whole thing is seems a bit strange to me.

Do you wear blue jeans to show that you are gay? But if you don't wear blue jeans does that make you a homophobe? The whole thing seems to be a bit contradictory to the whole 'we're all the same' theme that Rainbow Week is based on. So to show that we're singling people out on the basis of there choice of trousers???

Like I said I wont be in, so I'm not bothered either way, but if I was going in, I probably wouldn't wear jeans:o

tweety28

tweety28 wrote: »

will anyone actualy care?, im not gay but still i alway wear jeans and im not too bothered about changing that in case ppl thing im gay..... does anyone actualy take notice of theese things?

Pics pls.

tolosenc

Before I read the email, I never realised that nearly everyone on campus is wearing jeans.

ilovemybrick

im wearing my denim dress.
i pose that as a puzzle........

littlehedgehog

I'm wearing a blue denim jacket..
Does that make me bisexual?
Oh God, I'm just so confused.
Literally.

Crash

Its an awful campaign. but thats me assuming its a campaign? is it? or is it just silly?!

I won't be in trinity on friday thanks to a meeting with a company, that means i'm not wearing blue jeans in college, does that make me gay? but i'm not in college, so am I straight and denying it?

I never thought i'd say this, but i miss the days when rainbow week was ever so slightly militant, at least the idea was spreading the concept that being gay was ok, even if the organisers acted like spa's, as opposed to just being a week for the scene. When did that happen?

conzy

wtf I like blue jeans and im not gay!

Now im scared to go to trinity....

shay_562

Moorsy wrote:

Yep, if I remember correctly people actually harass you and sometimes even kick you.

Watch out for Moorsy; it sounds like he's joking, but he's well known in BESS for setting the gays on fire. Horrible stuff, really...

crash_000 wrote:

I never thought i'd say this, but i miss the days when rainbow week was ever so slightly militant, at least the idea was spreading the concept that being gay was ok, even if the organisers acted like spa's, as opposed to just being a week for the scene.

Eh. Every year there's less and less to get militant about - they had the gay marraige rally on Monday, and that's the last big sticking point really. In other colleges, maybe, but Trinity is actually pretty relaxed about the whole thing, so there's not much they can do with it beyond make it just a slightly-gayer-than-normal week.

manicmonoliths wrote:

The whole thing seems to be a bit contradictory to the whole 'we're all the same' theme that Rainbow Week is based on. So to show that we're singling people out on the basis of there choice of trousers???

If I had to guess, I'd say the idea is something along the lines of "see the way gay people aren't all that different, and dress just like you, and even blend in among you like normal human beings?". Or, alternatively, "if the majority are wearing blue jeans, the assumption becomes that they're gay, subverting the norms, etc, etc". I think it's a revived campaign from the 80s, where the posters were lashed up overnight on a Thursday so that half the college were wearing blue jeans the next day. Which would have been a lot more subversive back when more than a handful of people in TCD cared about it.

Which brings me to the OP: to be honest, the ones I'd watch are the people who are so disturbed by the thought that someone might think they're *gasp* gay, that they need to alter what they'd normally wear in order to avoid that implication. If you always wear jeans to college, then wear jeans and if anyone assumes incorrectly, politely correct them (you get very used to it after a while, believe me). If you're so horrified by the thought, then maybe Boston's right. Who knows, really?

Boston

I have internet gayradar, I send out arp packets to my closest neighbors.

Edwardius

This is the gayest thing I've ever seen.

wowy

I'm just not going to wear trousers. I'm sure that I have a presentable pair of boxers somewhere. Problem solved.

shay_562

wowy wrote:

I'm just not going to wear trousers. I'm sure that I have a presentable pair of boxers somewhere. Problem solved.

Why not wear those godawful half-denim half-corduroy monstrosities you own and tell everyone you're bisexual? I mean, it'd hardly be the first time someone used your fashion 'sense' to suggest that you're secretly gay.

wowy

shay_562 wrote: »

Why not wear those godawful half-denim half-corduroy monstrosities you own and tell everyone you're bisexual? I mean, it'd hardly be the first time someone used your fashion 'sense' to suggest that you're secretly gay.

Alas, they have gone to Jeans heaven. I still miss them sometimes. Who am I kidding; there's no sometimes about it-I miss them with every waking moment. And I don't care what people say; I was damn hot in those jeans. And not gay at all. Nor bisexual.

Xhristy

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Crash

I was thinking a nice pair of crotchless blue jeans, with the ass cheeks cut out of them. That'd be hot.

Crothless pantaloons?

Boston

shay_562 wrote: »

Why not wear those godawful half-denim half-corduroy monstrosities you own and tell everyone you're bisexual? I mean, it'd hardly be the first time someone used your fashion 'sense' to suggest that you're secretly gay.

Hey, I've a pair of those...

It's GAYDAR
Learn your terminology.

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paperclip

After the 'blue jeans' friday, I demand a 'traffic light' day...

shay_562

crash_000 wrote:

I was thinking a nice pair of crotchless blue jeans, with the ass cheeks cut out of them. That'd be hot

By the logic that everyone who's gay will be wearing blue jeans, you could technically wear assless leather chaps and claim complete heterosexuality.

Boston wrote:

shay_562 wrote:

Why not wear those godawful half-denim half-corduroy monstrosities you own and tell everyone you're bisexual? I mean, it'd hardly be the first time someone used your fashion 'sense' to suggest that you're secretly gay.

Hey, I've a pair of those...

Respect for Boston fading...fading...gone. Ah well. My idea for wowy still applies, except you might have slightly more reason to wear them.

Crash

How about "If you've got a Vagina next Monday, you're a woman"?

Stargal

çrash_000 wrote: »

How about "If you've got a Vagina next Monday, you're a woman"?

That's gay.

Awayindahils

ilovemybrick wrote: »

im wearing my denim dress.
i pose that as a puzzle........

I keep trying to convince myself that your not gay. This is not helping.

I'm going with a skirt which used to be jeans as well jeans kinda scare me. I was thinking items made of denim probably indicate bisexuality.

For anyone who wants answers from the man behind the campaign listen into tfm at 5 tonight for the current affairs show. Probably going to be rather friday feeling-y rather than hard hitting and insightful.