Unpopular Opinions.

I'll try and word this as delicately as possible because there's a line between an unpopular opinion and what could be construed as an offensive one, so here goes:


There's too much of an emphasis or exposure, a disproportionate amount really, of overtly and outrageously effeminate gay men on television nowadays. It's like a persona they put on to play up to a stereotype!


Examples include Louis Spence, Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy), Jack McFarland (Will and Grace), and, well, any gay man that appeared in Sex and the City!


I watched Alan Carr the other night who interviewed Rylan Clark (an X Factor contestant who played up to the overtly camp gay stereotype on the X Factor), and the difference between how he played up on the show (who will ever forget his reaction when Nicole Sherzinger told him he was through, comedy gold! ), and how he came across on Alan Carr was like night and day! He still played the somewhat "ditzy Essex" stereotype, but he was far more subdued and could actually talk normally without going all nasal and high pitched like he'd caught his balls in a vice grip!

At least Gok Wan is somewhat tolerable given he can still appreciate "a decent set of bangers!"

mango salsa wrote: »

I'm not convinced that a lot of people who identify as hetero are 100% so

I would agree with that too

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I would agree with that too

But do you 100% agree?

Racism is only challeneged when it affects...certain ethnicities

There should be a televised pope olympics to find the winner every time one of them dies or resigns.

1ZRed wrote: »

There should be a televised pope olympics to find the winner every time one of them dies or resigns.

I just got a woeful mental image of old men in dresses lining up in the Vatican yard to play leap frog with each other, totally forgetting to do the leap when they take a run at the old guy bent over in front of them-

"oops, seems I made a cardinal error and managed to bury the bishop, tee hee".


*shudders*

OldNotWIse wrote: »

I agree. I often go without makeup at weekends/evenings taking the dog out to the park etc . But I love putting on makeup and just feeling 100% beautiful

I do that with perfume - I suppose I'm just not that visually-oriented, and it's just as subjective.

pickarooney wrote: »

Why bring in these points that have nothing to do with make-up other than to try and bump your observation from opinion/perceived wisdom to indisputable fact?

There are many people who appreciate a natural face. It's only a societal norm that really says otherwise. Why, by the same token, do men not look better with make-up?

Make-up goes back to the stone ages in fairness, many primitive cultures used it to beautify themselves, including men, but more men then would've used it to put fear in their prey or their enemies in war as opposed to beautifying themselves.

Even today you'll see cultures like the aborigines, amazonian tribes, hell even the army still use make up camouflage, and I hardly need mention the amount of men carrying concealer in one pocket and a chapstick in the other these days!


Not MY kind of thing personally, but there you go!

starlings wrote: »

I do that with perfume - I suppose I'm just not that visually-oriented, and it's just as subjective.

Oh yeah, smell is an amazing power. I actually sometimes can recall memories or places in time more vividly just by smelling something. The memory is often stronger than a visual or verbal reminder! I think the associations remain forever.

Have you noticed how a perfume can smell differently on different people?