It’s now a trendy thing for straight couples to pretend to be lesbians; because modern urban culture is nothing more than adult children playing pretend forever and ever. And nothing is more trendy than pretending to be a victim of something.
Joanne was given space to write an op-ed in the [New York] Times because she says she and Lara face persecution. One time, Joanne and Lara were driving a car in a sinister-sounding town called “Whiteville,” North Carolina. Then Joanne saw some guys who looked as though they were from Duck Dynasty. According to Joanne, the Duck Dynasty guys followed Joanne and Lara in their pickup truck for a while. And then they stopped following Joanne and Lara!
That is why Joanne was given a highlighted space on the op-ed pages of the Times to write about discrimination against heterosexual couples pretending to be lesbians. For Joanne and Lara not only feel the imagined sting of persecution that lesbians feel, but that of being pretend lesbians as well, which is probably even worse
Okay, I’m a straight guy so maybe I’m just not hip enough for stuff like this. This looks like role playing to me. “Hey honey, are going to be lesbians or cowboys when we go to the pretend protest/cocktail party”? Can someone clue me in?
I read this ridiculous article over the weekend. Aside from the fact that a lot of good people in the south look like characters from Duck Dynasty, there were other fake clues in the story. They drove 3 hours to one of their family member’s homes for the holidays, stopping several times to go to the bathroom and once taking a nap in a parking lot! Gilligan took less time outs on his 3 hour tour than these broads.
No shock that article was in the NYT. It does sound made up. How would the Duck Dynasty boys hanging out at the gas station even know the two were lesbians? These folks need to travel more so they can come to the realization that most people just don’t care what they are and get up to. My partner and I have traveled this country plenty over the past 20 years, even into the deep heart of Duck Dynasty country, and have never had any issues at all. It may help that we were both born and raised poor in rural areas, and can speak fluent redneck, but gay is still gay. Perception has become their reality. I remember talking to a lesbian couple that was afraid to go out together on Valentines Day…in San Diego…because they thought they might get harassed. Seriously?
I too have had the same experience. The other day I drove to the store and I had this car following me for a few blocks. Then the driver must have seen that I was on to him so he turned left after I went through an intersection. It seems like this has been happening to a lot since Donald Trump was elected.
John, your comment cracked me up.
The same thing (somewhat) was going through my mind as well. These people are really beyond paranoid.
Most people just want to live and let live.
So Thelma and Lu got paranoid after seeing Cletus & Bubba? OMGOMGOMG and they followed them!!!??? Maybe they should lay off the bong and dry out for a while.
2017 can’t possibly get more strange.
Oh, I fear 2018 will be MUCH stranger yet.
Thanks, John… I thought it was just me. They are out to get me!
Yes, I’m afraid of exactly this.
So a straight couple pretended to be lesbians. Does that mean the husband pretended to be a girl. Depending on how the husband looked (mark hamill in a dress) that could draw some weird looks from passing strangers especially if the intent was to generate a faux hate hoax and thus the “lesbians” were acting strange to draw attention.
The best detail in the NYTimes op-ed piece was the byline at the bottom:
Joanne Spataro is a humorist and writer working on a memoir.
Some instinct makes me think that she does humor like Stephen Hawking does pole vaulting, but I could be wrong.