Plastic Life Mockery

     The latest thing to go viral online was another mockery of "gay lifestyle".  Since so many gay guys look like plastic Ken-dolls (full of botox, lip plumper, muscle hormones, and calf implants), 

the creators actually used Ken dolls in poses often found in so many gay mens' pictures on Instagram/Facebook/Snapchat.  

     They hit it perfectly... because so many gay men follow each other--doing everything the same: a shirtless selfie, a social media "influencer" having a picture-perfect day, or how nearly every single guy visited Mykonos or Madrid Gay Pride.  True, the gay world seems immaturely like a group of followers: everyone adopts the same tank-tops, lisp, haircut, vacation destinations, and behavior patterns.  It's a bigger scope than merely being "gothic", "preppy", "emo", or a "lipstick girl".  That is why it was so easy to stereotype.  (I put actual photographs beneath their interpretations).

(Incidentally, I blogged about Burning Man here: 

http://halfwindsorfullthrottle.blogspot.com/2017/08/what-is-burning-man-another-place-for.html )

Seeing it, a few guys--whose lives mirror that kind of predictability--retorted back rudely.  It was the same bratty way that the "guilty party" hollers back when you catch them littering or being loud on the subway and ask them to stop.

     What's amazing is how closely those faux Instagram pictures ACTUALLY represent gay men's lives.  Many men act like sheep to live the same way--all doing the same things, going to the same places, dressing the same, and taking never-ending inane selfies full of vanity.  

Like an insecure addiction, if there's nobody around to fawn over them, many guys take contrived pictures of themselves--often without clothes.

    Not to mention that when gay guys THEMSELVES use the terms "Instagay", "Gaycation", or "#gaytravel", it separates the gay community from the world.  As a community, we asked for terms like "gay marriage" to disappear--just like "female doctor" disappeared.  Now, our brethren are doing it to themselves.  But, as you notice, it's only with gay men; lesbians don't have any of this.

    None of those popular "behavior patterns" encourage individuality.  I'm afraid that our demographic--which supposedly wants inclusion (like the song from Avenue Q: "If I Were Gay")--is now being a restrictive wall... which will not earn respect or sympathy.