"Nobody pretends to be gay to get attention, who would?" Political/advantageous "lesbians". The (usually hot) women who claim to be 'lesbians', maybe even live the lie for awhile, to be 'cool' progressives, or to 'smash the patriarchy', shock their parents & the authority figures in their lives. I don't know if young women are doing that…
"Nobody pretends to be gay to get attention, who would?" Political/advantageous "lesbians". The (usually hot) women who claim to be 'lesbians', maybe even live the lie for awhile, to be 'cool' progressives, or to 'smash the patriarchy', shock their parents & the authority figures in their lives. I don't know if young women are doing that as much now, I saw it when I was younger and being gay was less mainstream and acceptable.
I had a friend who was a 'bullshit lesbian' for awhile, although I think for her it was less political - it was because men were frustrating for her (she was overweight and not very attractive, mostly because she didn't smile, she was quite pretty when she did, which wasn't much) and because she seemed never to outgrow the finding-your-identity thing. She announced she was 'coming out' about being gay at some point after her divorce, having claimed to be bisexual for years. I'd known her since the mid-80s and I thought, "There's no way she's gay, or even bisexual. She likes dick too much!" She had one or two gay relationships while she was going through her 'gay phase' and now she's remarried. To a guy.
I do everything I can manage to avoid reading anything about celebrities so this is new to me. I had never heard of "Kanye West" before a few weeks ago.
There was a time when claiming bisexuality was fashionable; didn't last long, and Lou Reed put an end to it by noting that you aren't gay if you don't like to suck dick.
I like people who don't smile. Unless they have a reason; The Smile came out of TV advertising and if you look at yearbook photos from high schools you won't see a lot of vacuous grins before 1955 or so.
I only read celebrity news if there's something interesting about the person. I never had much of an opinion on the actress Anne Hathaway - always liked her, but wouldn't describe myself as a 'fan' - until I read an article about a speech she gave a few weeks ago where she spoke candidly about how it felt and what she did in the aftermath of being subjected to a bizarre hate campaign on Twitter. She wasn't 'canceled', she hadn't done anything wrong now or thirty years ago, people just started hating on her. I paid attention because I'm interested in the mechanics of social media hatred and how we can fight 'cancel culture' and I wrote an article about her on Vocal as I found her speech and her growth out of it impressive. She's an example of a woman who took back her power and didn't allow the bitches to grind her down (and it appears to be mostly women hating on her - figures). Kanye West is a bit interesting now because he's kind of like Trump, except much smarter and he actually earned his billions honestly, rather than through breaking every real estate law in New York. I called him the Black Trump (wouldn't be surprised if he runs for President one day) until the rise of Herschel Walker, the new Black Trump who's as dumb as Donald.
"Nobody pretends to be gay to get attention, who would?" Political/advantageous "lesbians". The (usually hot) women who claim to be 'lesbians', maybe even live the lie for awhile, to be 'cool' progressives, or to 'smash the patriarchy', shock their parents & the authority figures in their lives. I don't know if young women are doing that as much now, I saw it when I was younger and being gay was less mainstream and acceptable.
I had a friend who was a 'bullshit lesbian' for awhile, although I think for her it was less political - it was because men were frustrating for her (she was overweight and not very attractive, mostly because she didn't smile, she was quite pretty when she did, which wasn't much) and because she seemed never to outgrow the finding-your-identity thing. She announced she was 'coming out' about being gay at some point after her divorce, having claimed to be bisexual for years. I'd known her since the mid-80s and I thought, "There's no way she's gay, or even bisexual. She likes dick too much!" She had one or two gay relationships while she was going through her 'gay phase' and now she's remarried. To a guy.
I do everything I can manage to avoid reading anything about celebrities so this is new to me. I had never heard of "Kanye West" before a few weeks ago.
There was a time when claiming bisexuality was fashionable; didn't last long, and Lou Reed put an end to it by noting that you aren't gay if you don't like to suck dick.
I like people who don't smile. Unless they have a reason; The Smile came out of TV advertising and if you look at yearbook photos from high schools you won't see a lot of vacuous grins before 1955 or so.
I only read celebrity news if there's something interesting about the person. I never had much of an opinion on the actress Anne Hathaway - always liked her, but wouldn't describe myself as a 'fan' - until I read an article about a speech she gave a few weeks ago where she spoke candidly about how it felt and what she did in the aftermath of being subjected to a bizarre hate campaign on Twitter. She wasn't 'canceled', she hadn't done anything wrong now or thirty years ago, people just started hating on her. I paid attention because I'm interested in the mechanics of social media hatred and how we can fight 'cancel culture' and I wrote an article about her on Vocal as I found her speech and her growth out of it impressive. She's an example of a woman who took back her power and didn't allow the bitches to grind her down (and it appears to be mostly women hating on her - figures). Kanye West is a bit interesting now because he's kind of like Trump, except much smarter and he actually earned his billions honestly, rather than through breaking every real estate law in New York. I called him the Black Trump (wouldn't be surprised if he runs for President one day) until the rise of Herschel Walker, the new Black Trump who's as dumb as Donald.