Wow, "The Golden Girls" turned a generation Gay?

No, this isn't from the Onion. Must be read (and laughed at) to be believed...

http://christwire.org/2009/10/the-golden-girls-how-one-tv-show-turned-a-generation-of-american-boys-into-homosexuals/

The most unexpected segment of this show’s fanbase was America’s young men. In the 80s, these were boys too delicate for sports, too awkward for girls, too “artistic” for labor-intensive work and too flamboyant for peer acceptance in high school. With no real adults in sight, these poor children became obsessed with the poorly conceived characters on this show. Desperate for a firm hand in their lives, they gravitated to the subversive undercurrent of masculinity in these aged matrons.

Many studies have been done on why the gays love The Golden Girls, but science can’t fathom the moral challenges and social upheaval of those historic times. The 1980s was an epoch of President Reagan’s manly wisdom and the terrifying threat of Cold War annihilation. America had sobered up from the flashy lights of 1970s disco. We were skipping all night cocaine and sex parties to focus on our careers. Spiritual leaders like Jerry Falwell were telling us that Christianity was in the majority again. On the other side, there was a subculture of homosexuality creeping up on our youths. It gave them an excuse to wear tight jeans and to sneak off to public parks for quick releases with hairy men of different ethnicities.

It was only to be expected that our lonely boys exposed to these conflicted times would succumb to the nagging Golden Girls agenda. These were slender, unathletic children who were left out of the fun militarism of the Reagan years. Skyrocketing divorce rates ruined their faith in traditional relationships. Rock groups like Duran Duran and Styx encouraged big hair and overactive libidos. The show lit a match which enflamed their intense physical urges. With the utmost cruelty and immorality, The Golden Girls seized upon this opportunity to cross the hormonal wires of America’s lost generation.

The results were disastrous. Our horny, lonely boys sought out intimate comforts with likeminded Golden Girls addicts who didn’t mind each other’s theatrical voices and touch-feely hand gestures. Together, these clusters of awkward teens and twentysomethings bonded over their favorite episodes and characters, mimicking the voices and gowns of their tv friends. When the rush of cheesecake and gabfests wore thin, these hairless boys needed a harder thrill. They were so desperate for the next big trend they turned to same-sex sexual experimentation. What woman would have them now, anyway? This led to the worse excesses of early homosexual visibility– the most enormous of drag queens, the dirtiest of leather daddies, the most enticing of twinkie boys, androgyny, overeating, public sex and the birth of “camp.”

This clown ought to go work at The Onion full time...

But they're so good at it that sometimes you can't tell.

I enjoy the Golden Girls' reruns more than I did the original run-through and am amazed that in their early days, more of the show wasn't cut. They had some pretty borderline comments that made it through the bleeper.

I figured the Repugs had totally lost it.

:rofl:

Didn't think so!

THEY ARE THE SAME PEOPLE!

:spray:

is when it contains enough 'truthy' elements to be plausible. This piece ranks highly IMO.

I actually read an article on The Golden Girls once that stated it blazed inroads into some of the touchier subjects of the time. Things like one night stands, AIDS, homosexuality, adultery, death, etc., were covered when other shows ignored them. It showed an aging America that it was OK to get older, that life could still be good during the senior years.

The actors did a good job and made their characters lovable and believable. In fact, the only real issue with the show was that the interior set of the house didn't match the exterior shots. (On the exterior, the garage was on the right, on the interior set it was on the left.)

Estelle and Bea are no longer with us, but the characters of Sophia and Dorothy that they created live on, and in many ways are as relevant today as ever.

like maybe 30 or so, and the rest just got confused after watching TV?

Who the fuck are these people and why do other people actually believe them?
We have so much stupidity in this country, it is appalling.

mark

there was the assertion of watching too much Magnum P.I. would do the same thing.

:rofl:

Please, not Tom!!!!!!


mark

"Many studies have been done on why the gays love The Golden Girls"

Really? Many studies?

That is some insane BS going on there.

How on earth does one even try to wrap their heads around such a truly bizarre assertion?

Many studies?

Wow, just wow!

On edit: I had to call a buddy of mine and ask him his opinion on golden girls. His exact response, "what the fuck?"

That's my study. LOL

in "tight jeans"...do you think, maybe, he caught teh gay from too much research?

Is NO ONE safe?


mark

an onion like site. LOL

:shrug:

Betty White! Estelle Getty! Bea Arthur! Really an awesome cast. (I'm a dude.)

I want a big ol paper sack of theos sticky buds he's been smokin'! No foolin, I'd have like to have been the room - the peals of laughter, the evil cackles...

In the pilot episode, the Golden Girls had a gay houseboy. By the second episode, he had magically disappeared. I figure he's probably living with Chuck Cunningham from Happy Days. After all, his parents had to have SOME reason for pretending to forget he ever existed.

One of my favorite ever lines from that sitcom.

It was a great show.

:)

Golden Girls was hilarious. I still watch the reruns all the time and crack up.

And just think how much of a trailblazer Bea Arthur was, first as Maude, and then as Dorothy!

once in middle school I mentioned in passing how much I loved the Golden Girls and everyone in the class started laughing at me. I guess it was considered feminine or gay. I never admitted to liking it anymore but I still watched it every week...in secret. Maybe it is kind of GLBT after all. Is there anyone more gender bending than Bea Arthur?

They did make being alive more enjoyable however.