In defense of straight men

So, the editor of Stuff magazine admitted that he contrived the story about “gancing.”

Gancing?

Here’s a recap from the New York Post:

MALE-DANCE FEVER: JUST KIDDING, GUYS!

Jay Leno mocked it in a recent monologue. Ryan Seacrest confessed to his radio listeners that he had done it. But it turns out that "gancing" - the guy-on-guy dancing trend that's supposedly sweeping the clubs - was a hoax cooked up by an editor at Stuff magazine. After the mammary-obsessed monthly ran a two-page spread in its April issue, with pictures of straight guys engaging in choreographed dance moves like "The Lumberjack" and "The Diana Ross," the term "gancing" was suddenly on the lips of clueless commentators everywhere. "It's so blatantly false," says Stuff features editor Bill Schulze. "I thought it would be a funny way to kill two pages. But I did about 10 morning zoo radio interviews the week after it came out. Every single one of them bought it."

So….this boils down to two issues for me:

1. Media Responsibility
2. Straight men are fine the way they are – as long as they’re not bashing me

My dad, a straight guy

I’m not gonna tackle media responsibility at the moment. Good God – that’s a book. But as for straight boys, I think it’s time for this homo to say this:

LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE!

I’m really glad that my dad and my older, straight brother taught me how to change a tire on my car and replace the brakes on my car. I’m glad that I didn’t spend my summers on the farm with my dad learning how to manicure my eyebrows, instead I had chores. Granted, I bitched the whole time, and I would rather have been drawing rather than doing farm work, but I learned the value of hard work and responsibility. I’m not saying that my mom didn’t instill those values in me, too, but learning about responsibility and hard work from my dad was different.

After I came out to my dad, he helped me tune-up my car. He told me, “There’s gonna be people out there who won’t like you for who you are. You’re young and you’re gonna go out – and you might meet folks who don’t like you ‘cause you’re gay. If you get into that situation… I want you to be able to get out of it damn fast.”

That’s the way my straight dad dealt with my being gay. He tuned up my car.

That’s the kinda straight men that are all right by me.