It's Official I am Hooked on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

[Dreadsox]

OMG.....

I can't stop watching.

 

[zonelistener]

Is this the Bravo reality show? Or am I COMPLETELY lost?

Quite a turn for me....Since moving, I have only watched TV when staying in a hotel room. I don't even have my TV plugged in.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

i have heard this show is very funny. i have yet to see an episode though. my colleague sent me this link. i have yet to open it. but it is a commerical about the show.

apparently this is really funny:

http://www.bravotv.com/Queer_Eye_for_the_Straight_Guy/Kyan_Douglas/Video_Highband.shtml

 

[*BOOMCHAA!*]

I SAW IT!
I love it!!
QUALITY.

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

i've been meaning to watch that show, but keep forgetting.

 

[ILuvLarryMullen]

I have just realized that the show is on right now in my timezone

 

[najeena]

I love it, I only wish I had friends like that. How about Queer Eye for the Straight Housewife?

 

[tiny dancer]

I heard all about this show. What day and hour is it on?

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

so this show will be on Thursday night after Will and Grace on NBC. Did NBC pick it up from Bravo?

 

[Angela Harlem]

What is it?

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

yes I'm curious

 

[joyfulgirl]

I haven't seen it, but my gay friends hate it and from what I've read about it, I don't blame them.

 

[zonelistener]

yes I'm curious

I read the thred backwards, knowing what the show was about.

I am sorry Yertle, but I just about fell on the fllor laughing when I read this. I am SURE you did not mean this statement in the same context that I read it in.

 

[melon]

I think it is WAY too fast, but, hopefully, it will help straight guys realize that they have something in common with gay guys. I don't know; I doubt too many "straight" guys watch Bravo anyway.

Melon

 

[zonelistener]

I may be one of those rare ones!

 

[LarryMullen's POPAngel]

I haven't seen it, but my gay friends hate it and from what I've read about it, I don't blame them.

How come? What have you read about it?

I've only seen one episode but I loved it. Good tips, funny, and the guy looked pretty good in the end.

 

[joyfulgirl]

How come? What have you read about it?

I've only seen one episode but I loved it. Good tips, funny, and the guy looked pretty good in the end.

Because it presents gays as prissy stereotypes. And straight men as stupid. I guess. I don't know--I haven't seen it. Of course stereotypes exist but it doesn?t serve the gay community in a homophobic society to constantly present only these stereotypes without balancing it out with non-stereotypes. Within my large group of gay friends, not one of them is a decorator, stylist or hairdresser. They are clinical nutritionists, mortgage loan officers, gardeners, landscapers, publishers, editors, writers, dentists. ?Six Feet Under? is the only show I?ve seen that presents a nice range and balance of realistic gay people (but I haven?t seen ?Queer as Folk? which apparently is really great, too).

 

[joyfulgirl]

Here's an excerpt from the Village Voice that presents a pretty balanced review of the show, written by a gay man--not negative at all, actually, but interesting, and I guess this excerpt outlines my concern. But the review also offers many positives about the show, so I'm interested to see it (when I renew my cable in the fall):

But then, Queer Eye isn't really about getting a sartorial education. The makeover is just the surface of this spectacle. Its deeper draw is the relationship between two seemingly antagonistic types. Here, straight guys let down their guard before a squad of swishies and welcome the results. I suppose it's a sign of progress that this interchange looks plausible, but it's a measure of how far we haven't come that the meeting must be staged on stereotypical ground.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0330/goldstein.php

 

[zonelistener]

Joyful....you should post the same in Lemonade Stand!

 

[joyfulgirl]

Okay, I just posted a big long thing over there but somehow it's not there.

 

[zonelistener]

Okay, I just posted a big long thing over there but somehow it's not there.