Sunday, March 7, 2010

March 10 - A Question

Here's one: If I see a picture of a guy and think to myself, "Wow, if he had a twin sister, she'd be pretty hot," is that gay?
Right off the bat, I'd have to say no, I don't think it is, even if she kind of looked like her brother (which she would if they were twins). Take Julia Roberts: She definitely looks like her brother Eric, but finding her attractive doesn't throw up any red flags. I hear what you're saying: Yeah, but that's Julia Roberts. It's not really controversial to say she's good looking. What about if it's not someone famous we're talking about?
In that case, I still think we're OK. It's simple genetics: Plenty of women look like their brothers, and if you think some of them (the sisters) are hot, it doesn't necessarily mean that you think their brothers are hot, too. So yeah, I think we're OK.
OK, but let's take this a little further. I've always had a thing for tomboys. Let's say, take the same theoretical twin sister of the guy in the picture and give her a short haircut. Think: Demi Moore in Ghost. Think Mary Stuart Masterson in Some Kind of Wonderful. If you kind of long for the existence of such a woman--the twin sister of the guy in the picture and now she has a short boyish haircut--is that gay now?
I still say no, because yeah, she might have short hair and kind of look like her brother, but we're still talking all woman here. Some women can totally rock the short hair look, and if anything finding them attractive is the opposite of gay.
Fine, so now let's give her a pretty athletic build. Give her slightly broader shoulders and a pretty flat chest. And she still looks like her brother. How about now? Is that gay?
No, it's not, for the same reasons as above. Sure she might not be the most buxom woman in the world. She might have short hair and a flat chest and look like her brother. But as long as she's still a woman, it's not gay to find her attractive, of course it's not.
OK, but how about if we take the same woman--short hair, broad shoulders, flat chest, looks like her brother--and we give her an itty bitty penis and you kind of want to just hold it gently in your hand every now and then. Is that gay?
Yeah, I'd say that's pretty gay.

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