Not that there's anything wrong with that. http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/28/people.georgetakei.ap/index.html
^ you can't be serious. now that Sulu is out of the closet, it makes those episodes like 2.3 times as good.
Well, Hap, it just ruins my mental image of Sulu. It's sorta' like seeing a movie of Superman as an old, wrinkled, white-haired, stooped, old man with Alzheimers! Or a movie of Dirty Harry without his 44 Magnum and walkin' around forgiving all of the criminals for what they've done to innocent people! Just ruins the movies, don't ya' think? Baron Max
Max, Are you saying that gay men are not rough and masculine and somehow Sulu WAS? Hell, he could slip right into the cast of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and no one would bat an eyelash (except maybe AT him). Sulu fits the ideal gay stereotype like a well crafted, rabbit lined, imported Italian leather glove. How does it change his image for you? How is this even a surprise? Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yeah, I mean he always looked gay in the shows and videos. I guess this explains it. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
No, Raven, it's sorta' like having a good friend who's your workout buddy, yer' shooting partner, yer' drinking buddy, and then having him tell you that he's gay! Everything changes ....everything! It's not that HE has changed, it's that your perception of him has changed. You can never, ever see him as he was before ...he's now someone "completely new"!!! New AND different. Ain't got nothin' to do with muscles or outdoorsy-types, etc .....it's ones own perceptions have been rocked to the core. Gay males just ain't ...ahhh, well, ain't male, ya' know? They're ...well, they're something else! I don't know what, exactly, but they're ......something else. Baron Max
I know what you're saying Baron, and it comes from, I think, how many men identify with women and their sexuality. I can only speak for myself here, but at some level, all my interaction with women centers around sex. If I find a woman attractive, I can never ever be 'just' friends with her, as a general rule. So when a friend tells you he's gay, you immediately assume that if he finds you attractive (which he should, right?) then he would, at some level like to be more than friends. Which pretty much means sodomy. And for most straight men, the idea of a friend sodomizing them is very, very difficult to deal with. All future interactions with your gay friend now revolve around sodomy.
Kind of changes the context of the boyhood fantasies of travelling through space for years on end with him, I suppose. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I guess I just always assumed he was gay (once I was old enough to understand whay "gay" meant) so it really doesn't change anything for me.
What's wrong with bigotry, Hap? My dictionary says: "One obstinately devoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion" So what's wrong with being a bigot? And think of it this way .....what would we think of someone who was NOT dvoted to his own church, party, belief or opinion? What would we think of someone who switched his beliefs and opinions at the drop of a hat or due to someone else's suggestions or insistence? Baron Max
The key, Max, is the obstinately part. Being devoted to a cause is admirable. Remaining blindly devoted to an organization, for example, regardless of the deeds performed by that organization or specific harmful doctrine, is not. Obstinenace is closed-minded willful ignorance. There is everything wrong with that.
Actors being gay is nothing new, but there is a side of me that finds the concept of 'gay characters' on Star Trek rather amusing. ...like a gay klingon. That would be great.
