I was over a friend’s house this weekend. We were shootin’ the shit watching TV, catching up on various events that had happened since we last got together. I wanted to watch the Ultimate Fighter 4 final - I had been watching the series, and was looking forward to the final. I enjoy watching MMA. These men are highly skilled. Gone are the days of two bar brawlers trying to bash the crap out of each other. Need skills to survive now.
The reaction to my request surprised me a little -
SL: “Dude, that ultimate fighting stuff is sooooo gay!”
CK: “Yeah, its sooooo gay!”
JMD: “What’s gay about two guys trying to beat each other up?”
SL: “Dude, they’re wearing shorts!”
CK: “Yeah, they’re practically naked.”
SL: “And they’re wrestling around on the ground almost naked.”
I ended up watching the rerun later.
This morning I followed a link from TJIC to Vox Popoli and had a laugh -
What’s kind of funny about Flicka’s reaction is the automatic assumption that everything even remotely masculine is some kind of homoposery. It’s gotten to the point that if somebody posted a video of himself ripping a human head off a living body with his bare hands and slam-dunking it on a twelve-foot rim, the main reaction would probably be: “wow, that is so gay!”
“Yeah man - he was wearing shorts - practically naked!”
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Particularly funny is that when I arrived a bit later and was told the soda was flat, SL offered to mix me some of what he was drinking: soda water and strawberry/kiwi/melon juice, or some such abomination.
Now, there’s a manly beverage.