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The more I read the funnier it gets
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“As a straight member of a gay band, I totally didn’t get the point of the gay song I wrote for my gay band”
I'm not gay I just like hanging out with the boys
"As a now-identifying-as-straight member..."
I hate him saying "get your mind out of the gutter" as if even thinking about people who are gay is itself a perverted sexual act.
Gay people exist. Acknowledging this and discussing whether a piece of media is directed at them is not "mind in gutter" stuff.
I don't want to go so far as to say this person is homophobic, but it sure does sound like some internalized homophobia, perhaps.
He knows the audience he’s playing to
Bingo!
“the gutter” here is the idea that the YMCA — a youth organization helping out young men in need — has sexual intentions in its existence.
That would be sketchy as fuck.
You've got some impressively long arms for all that reaching.
I can reluctantly believe that is true (despite the laughable first paragraph where he gives example after example about why such "assumptions" are reasonable) - but he's old enough to know that once an artist puts art out into the world, their interpretation of it is no longer the only one.
The song IS a gay anthem even if it wasn't written that way.
edit - they the
There could be some plausible deniability but contextually it doesn't pass the sniff test
And we're SURE this isn't The Onion? How sure?
Offering young men ways to have a good time when they're short on their dough sure as hell doesn't sound straight.
I mean, the title and situation is a lot more straightforward than the nuance behind his reasoning and the history of the band.
Not the Onion? Amazing.