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journal - 2004-0109 - 2000 Tin Tin; XXX Porn; Far more about "Boy Meets Boy" than you ever wanted to know Happy Birthday Tin Tin! 75 today. And you don't look a day over 12. Yesterday at work, I was trying to clean up my bookmarks. I clicked on a link for a partner organization. Immediately a XXX porn site popped up. Holy moley! The babes on the page were engaged in some SERIOUS exploits. To make it worse, loud moans and groans began pouring from the speakers. Quickly, I snapped to the back icon. This brought up a site with even more graphic images. All anatomical permutations were covered. The organization maintains a token site that is not updated on a regular basis. So it was very possible that they were not aware of the problem. Within minutes, I zipped off an e-mail saying, "Yo! Guys! Look at your 'new' home page!" This afternoon, a rep from the group stopped by my office and said he had checked the site. In turns out, the address I had was the old one that had a com suffix. The new address is the same, save it has an org suffix. He also told me their server had been down for several months. Which meant that the new address didn't work. He then asked who had taken the old address. I checked on line and explained the info. I then entered a query for his new address. BUT, he was no longer listed as the owner. Someone in Switzerland had taken over the name. (Apparently, his ownership had expired.) At this point, he was looking almost ill. We talked about obtaining a varation of the name; when I checked, I discovered the name plus the word "online" was available with a number of suffixes. So at least he was able to leave feeling slightly better. Last week, I'd watched the "Boy Meets Boy" retrospective on Bravo. But since I'd seen the first airing, I now knew who was gay and who was straight. So this gave the viewing a different dimension. During the initial broadcast, Bravo had run an online poll for each guy that allowed you to vote whether you thought he was gay or straight. I'd looked at the results, but now I was curious if there was any pattern to be gleamed. So I looked at the percentages for each guy and whether it was right or not.
There were 8 gay guys: 6 were thought to be gay, 2 straight.
So it looks like it was easier to spot the gay guy than the straight guy. But it also shows that the viewers were far more willing to think someone was gay than straight.
Of course, the straight guys were trying to pretend to be gay, since one could win a $25,000 prize.
But there was no incentive for a gay guy to pretend to be straight.
In looking at the percentages for each guy, the gay votes for the gay guys were much stronger than the straight votes for the straight guys. Of the gay guys; total gay votes for Robb equaled 94%; Wes, 77%; Brian H, 73%; Chris, 68%; Matthew, 66%; Jason, 52%. Of the straight guys: total stright votes for Sean, 72%; Brian A, 42%; Franklin, 54%. I wonder if there has ever been a study done as to why someone is perceived to be gay or straight. Are the Judy Garland CDs a dead giveaway? PAX! journal | archives | home | e-mail |
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