Are you GAY?? (Page 6)

I am a little lost.  This thread started out being soooo much fun!  And I don't see anything in this post particularly offensive.  After having fixed my car once, I wanted to call my dad and tell him how butch I was.  Am I any less butch for watching HGTV, no...but in jest, comments like this don't offend me.  We all make generalizations and jokes about stereotypes...most gay standup comics make jokes about it all the time.  I watched a Pride standup comedy special, and one of the comics joked about how when he walks into a gay bar, they call the police because he looks like a skin head football player and are afraid he is a basher.  When I worked in High Tech, some of the gay guys were getting hate mail from someone on my team.  All of the known gay employees of the department were called into a conference room, I made a joke that that head of the department must need his hair done, his house decorated and his yard landscaped...we all thought it was funny.    I don't see where what he said implied that being gay made him less of a man or less of anything?  There have been several threads on this site on what constitutes loosing your "man-card", and rarely have I seen people get upset about how doing something less masculine (like going to a clay aiken concert) makes you less of a man.  Maybe I am dumb (so not the stereotypical gay male), but I just read into it as a joke from someone that was open minded.  (I think there are some faults to that open mindedness that came out in later posts, but in reference to the post that started this discussion). Even if the alleged meaning that taking a bubble bath makes you less of a man, I don't believe there was intent.  But again, maybe I read it wrong.  I am not always the brightest tool in the shed....

Now, can we return this thread into a fun loving celebration of being GAY!