![]() If he was supposed to be a total a-hole, the situation might be different.) (Particularly when he’s playing a character we’re meant to like. An overhyped, underperforming, straight actor calling electric cars “gay” solely as an insult, in yet another pathetic and doomed bromance flick, doesn’t meet any of these criteria. In this frame of reference, calling a car “gay” is not only specific, sarcastic, overtly nonsensical, and rooted in a particular community (mine, the gay one), it’s also, generally, complimentary, and (hopefully) comical. When I’m writing about gay cars-and I always am-I’m talking jocularly, facetiously, and farcically about them actually being gay, as in, homosexual: handsome, well-designed, predatory, promiscuous, virile, muscular, and/or likely to be the lust object of an male, man-loving autophile. It has different shades of meaning depending on who is saying it, in what condition and situation it is being delivered, who is in the intended audience, and whether or not it has objective humorous merit. ![]() (Sort of like Vince Vaughn!) Yet as the author of a weekly gay car column here at, I can almost hear the hear morons-who-love-to-intentionally-ignore-all-context asking So how come you get to call cars gay, and the blowhard bloat from The Frat Pack doesn’t? Well, for those of you who have never taken semiotics or been made to understand the basic underpinnings of the First Amendment, I’ll explain: All speech is not equal. At a time when numerous stars, pseudo-stars, and not-for-profit organizations like the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN) are attempting- successfully, studies show -to change kids’ behavior with regard to using gay as a synonym for lame, ugly, moronic, or distasteful, the extraordinarily intentional use of the term in this way seems not only mean-spirited, douchey, and desperate, but formidably un-funny. But my-parents-are-chaperoning-the-dance gay.” In the clip-and, one supposes, in the correlative movie-a character played by box office-Kryptonite Vince Vaughn is discussing consumer perceptions of electric cars and says “electric cars are gay.” He then goes on to qualify, piling insult on injury: “Not homosexual gay. Universal Pictures found itself in on the receiving end of a steaming pile of Pink Rage this week, when both the Silver Ferret, Anderson Cooper, and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) took it to task for a pejorative use of the word “gay” in the trailer of its upcoming movie The Dilemma.
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