Anyone else find the way Michelle talks about gay people cringeworthy?
Boyard
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Diary room yesterday: "I connect well with Kavana, not just because of the gay thing" (You're not gay, love) "I like Callum, even though I'm not used to straight men"
I find the way she's made herself spokesperson for the gay community and divides gays/straights as if they're different breeds a little crass. People are people! Everyone is different! As a gay man she's the type of woman I run away from. I feel like those kind of women only want to be friends with me cause I'm gay, not cause they like me as a person. Especially if they say stuff like "I've always wanted a gay friend! We can go shopping together!" I have friends, not **** hags. I saw her refer to herself in an interview as "a gay man's best friend" She probably also thinks she's "a gay man trapped in a woman's body" rolleyes
I find the way she's made herself spokesperson for the gay community and divides gays/straights as if they're different breeds a little crass. People are people! Everyone is different! As a gay man she's the type of woman I run away from. I feel like those kind of women only want to be friends with me cause I'm gay, not cause they like me as a person. Especially if they say stuff like "I've always wanted a gay friend! We can go shopping together!" I have friends, not **** hags. I saw her refer to herself in an interview as "a gay man's best friend" She probably also thinks she's "a gay man trapped in a woman's body" rolleyes
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I dont know how her role has evolved, perhaps it makes more sense in the US? Although I'm not sure how she has managed turn her job as a presenter of a drag show into some kind of crusade that seems like more of a prop to her vanity than anything else. But perhaps I'm just being cynical.
Yes it's great to be supportive, but she is being downright patronising
I couldn't agree more. ;-)
Ditto. As the mother of a gay child I support gay rights but it is so not my community, it's my daughter's community. They speak for themselves.
I presume Michelle's kids were straight otherwise we would never hear the end of it.....
What about her husband?
I agree. I really liked her at first but I'm finding her being self appointed spokeswoman for an entire community rather tiresome now.
God, it;s really hard to like anyone in that house isn't it?
I imagine he's a lesbian trapped in a straight man's body ;-)
Definately, I said as much yesterday. Not sure I like any of them.
Is she just doing this to get the gay vote?
This isn't the 1970's. People have moved on.
I found it very insulting that she would suggest Perez's behaviour would bring great shame on the LGBT community. As if that would somehow influence how the British public feel about the the LGBT community. Perez is representing Perez, not millions of people who are linked only through their sexuality.
Absolutely spot on. Kav is just a normal guy who gets on with his life. He doesn't feel the need to remind everyone that he's gay. He's in there representing Kav and that's it.
I agree with you re Kav. Is there really any such thing as the 'gay community' these days? I know quite a few gay people and they're not a homogeneous group, they're individual and unique people.
My good friend is someone you wouldn't have a clue was gay until you met his partner. He's a regular bloke who goes to football, has an almost entirely straight circle of friends and would rather have pins stuck in his eyes than spend 10 minutes in GAY.
The problem is the BB deals with stereotypes. Almost every gay man they've had on their has been as camp as a row of pink tents, chosen deliberately to provoke a reaction. Sadly, Michelle for all her good intentions, seems to be re-enforcing that stereotype that gay people are not like the rest of us