{"id":1120,"date":"2008-01-09T19:38:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1120"},"modified":"2008-01-09T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T00:38:29","slug":"yes-i-like-y-chromosomesjust-not-that-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/1120","title":{"rendered":"Yes I Like Y Chromosomes&#8230;Just Not That Many&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Dan Savage appreciates the kind of male I do&#8230;at least judging by <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/01\/liveblogging_tonights_project_runway_car\">the ribbing he gets every now and then on Slog<\/a>.&nbsp; Yes, I am well aware that tastes such as mine (and apparently his) are not all that well respected, anymore then the guys themselves are.&nbsp; I am reminded of this fact every year when the new calendars come out, and all I see on the racks at the gay bookstores are Chippendale types, or super models with body builder torsos, or big furry bears dressed in odd leather accessories.&nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>I can say for a fact I&#8217;d fare better at seeing what I like reflected in gay culture in other parts of the world, particularly Asia and South America.&nbsp; But here in America men, both gay and straight, have to be double-plus Y chromosome <strong>Manly<\/strong> or they&#8217;re&#8230;well&#8230;you know&#8230;<em>faggots<\/em>.&nbsp; Look&#8230;I can appreciate how after generations of having our maleness called into question by prejudiced straights, gay men have been busy reclaiming that manhood thing for themselves ever since Stonewall.&nbsp; And that&#8217;s not a bad thing, really.&nbsp; Unless it descends into that same sterile brain dead fear of femininity thing that&#8217;s got the <em>KulturKrieger<\/em> here in the U.S. all worked up.&nbsp; Then it gets tiresome.&nbsp; It wasn&#8217;t the <strong>Manly Men<\/strong> who fought back at Stonewall&#8230;it was the drag queens and the girly boys.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Dan Savage appreciates the kind of male I do&#8230;at least judging by the ribbing he gets every now and then on Slog.&nbsp; Yes, I am well aware that tastes such as mine (and apparently his) are not all that well respected, anymore then the guys themselves are.&nbsp; I am reminded of this fact every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,46],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-jackass-chronicles","tag-the-kultar-kampf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}