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My hair is 1/4 inch long. I’m sick of these women who bitch about getting their hair cut to shoulder length on reality makeover shows. When you have straight hair down to your ass, it overpowers your look. Cut it! At some length the woman becomes known for her hair. It creates the only focal point on the body an hides the face, doing nothing for sex appeal. Why do women have such an emotional attachment to their hair? It’s certainly not quite as exciting as a certain male part. I’ve actually seen women ready to drink the blood of their babies than get their hair cut. WHY?
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For the first time in American politics we have a woman and an African-American in the running. It’s ugly out there and I’m not talking about attack ads. I am talking about the racial divide. No one last night on CNN had balls enough to answer the question posed by Lou Dobbs about race helping to get Obama votes. Obama garnered 81% of the black vote in North Carolina. Are people blindly voting for the black man? Does he really share the same experiences and values with the average black voter in NC? Are people simply voting for him because it’s the first time in their lives that they get to vote for a black man?
These are real issues that people are afraid to address. Let’s put it this way: put on your red sequin shows and pretend. What if there was a gay white man running against a straight white man in the Democratic primaries (to make things “even”). Would you as a gay male blindly vote for the gay male candidate? Would you vote for him if you didn’t agree with him on an issue such as gay marriage? Right now you would say, “Of course not!” Well, think again. How good would you feel voting for the first gay man. I’d feel pretty good. I felt great voting (again) for my woman Hillary. It is somehow fulfilling to vote for someone so much like you. I hated voting for John Kerry, but had to to combat Bush (how well did that work?).
Barack Obama is black so he gets the black vote. How stupid does that make Americans look? The world must be looking at us and laughing at our naivete that we don’t look at the issues before casting our votes. Think about it!
I personally don’t believe that Obama is electable. He does well with blacks and the well-to-do. Hillary does wonderful with the elderly, non-black rural and suburban voters, and blue collar workers. The blue collar, elderly, and gay voters that make up the “Hill-dawg’s” constituents are what I call real Americans. I say “real Americans” because they are the ones that matter in early November.
There are still violent racists in this country and it’s not time for him. She’s got more experience and while polarizing, we are much more ready for a woman in the White House. I’m your traditional moderate Democrat from a blue collar family in rural Pennsylvania that looks to her to solve my problems. She will. Unfortunately, I have major doubts as to whether she will be nominated by the DNC. If that does not happen, I will help the community with its due diligence in choosing the more gay-friendly candidate. I don’t know who that is yet.
Fine, call me racist. Luckily I spent 6 years living in the New York metro area, thereby having to face my fears of people from various ethnic backgrounds and worked hard to purge those prejudices. The news media looks at African-American populations while determining the electability of Obama. How wrong is that? How dumb does that make us ALL look?
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I’m excited to be starting a new job in about 8.5 hours! It looks like this will be a “normal” job that will actually give me free time to blog and podcast more frequently. I miss spending a lot of time with my listeners and readers. Since I’ll have an hour long bus ride I should have time to devote to my passions. As with anything new, I’m a little nervous and a little excited. Expect to hear from me soon on the podcast once this cold clears up.
I don’t know nothin’ ’bout birthin’ babies! (Gone with the Wind, Butterfly McQueen)
People are afraid of things with which they have no experience or have had a bad experience. As a broad statement, you may or may not agree with me. A few weeks ago I wrote this post about a woman who was scared of wearing things that would expose her skin because her religion and upbringing forbade it. As a United States citizen and supposed “free thinker,” why wasn’t she able to make the decision for herself? Why wasn’t she able to ask the question, “Why does my religion forbid such styles of dress?” It is very possible that to her doing something she had never experienced, seen, or even talked about was simply frightening. Better yet, she was probably taught that such things were evil and that they would disappoint one’s parents. Let’s go a step further and say that she did not see it necessary to dress in more modern attire due to her twenty-some years of external influences on this earth.
This week’s episode of ABC’s Wife Swap brought up some similar issues and made me rethink that previous post. The one family moved to rural Ohio to get their children away from the sex, drugs, and violence of urban life. First off, they moved to hide reality from their kids. They also did not have TV or media access. The kids live a totally sheltered life. Here’s an excerpt from their family “manual.”
We moved to the country to get the boys away from the city. Our children are being raised away from violent language, sexual influences, drinking, smoking, drugs, rap music all the things we left behind in the city. Instead we are raising our children on a diet of wholesome activities and farm work; keeping their minds pure and their bodies healthy and keeping out the influences of modern society. That is why we home-school.
Is it not great that parents want to protect their children from vices and dangers by not teaching them about such things? These kids will grow up not knowing anything other than their country lifestyle. If the above wasn’t bad enough, the four sons are forbidden to date (even the 19 year old):
The boys are not allowed to date until they are ready to get married. They need to concentrate on building the right foundations for a healthy and moral life NOT thinking about girls. There is plenty of time to worry about that when they have found their bride-to-be and are ready to settle down.
These boys will probably end up in brother-on-brother porn after that shit. Joking aside, these parents are NOT letting their children make their own decisions. The swapped wife did let the two older boys go on a their first date with girls which they didn’t want to go on. Aren’t 16 and 19 year olds supposed to be horny and “girl crazy”? They don’t want to go on dates because they’ve been taught that girls are bad and makin’ babies is evil. The father initially linked dating with sexual activity. While in the gay male community that is not far from the truth, in the straight world it is certainly not the case. Why not let the 19 year old experiment, but only after having explained the consequences of poor decisions?
These kids may appear to be making their own decisions but they are so molded and/or brainwashed by their parents that they will only make the decisions their parents would make. The father also seemed to fear dating. My god, what if these kids knew there were such things as gay people? Maybe they would find out 30 or 40 years sooner that they’re gay. I’m not joking here. I think the pressure and normalcy of the straight lifestyle and institution of marriage skew their thoughts and stifle their true sexual emotions. They don’t know any better! They have such little contact with the outside world that they may not know that it’s okay to have “burning urges” for little Billy down the street. How many people in this country STILL don’t know that there is such a thing as “gay”?
Well, I still don’t know how to birth a baby and I certainly have asked a bunch of questions here. One thing I do know, innocent ignorance only leads to personal, social, and professional problems down the line. Kids are most influenced by their parents. There aren’t many psychologists that would disagree with that statement. How hard can it be to control your kids while allowing them to have some thoughts of their own? Rebellion is good, as long as it is somewhat controlled. Balance is the key and as Supernanny and Wife Swap show us, it’s a bitch to get right.
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23 April 2008, Pittsburgh, PA - JasonCable.com’s GLBT Podcast today announces today that episodes of its podcast have been downloaded a total of 200,000 times. Serving the gay and lesbian community for nearly three years, host Jason Cable is excited by the numbers. ”I didn’t think I would have been able to reach an average of 1,400 listeners per show when I first started this podcast.” The show can be heard from anywhere in the world and has listeners in places as distant as South Africa, China, Germany, the UK, and Canada along with nearly 40 other countries. JasonCable.com now also hosts a blog where listeners can respond to comments on the show. They can also leave voice messages on a toll-free number, all free of charge.
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I’ll make this quick. If you live in Pennsylvania and are registered to vote, you have until 8pm tonight. I don’t care who you vote for, just get out an vote! Your vote does count.
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What a day! I actually got to meet a few celebrities today. It was the first time in my 28 years that I’ve had the opportunity to actually talk an get my picture taken with real celebrities that people know. Little old Jason Cable from Warren, PA got to meet Robert Gant, Sharon Gless, and Michelle Clunie from TV’s Queer As Folk at a cocktail party hosted at the home of Peter Karlovich and Steven Herforth to support Hillary Clinton for President.
I want to thank the gracious hosts and all of those in the GLBT community who came out in support of, in my opinion, the best presidential candidate for our community, Hillary Clinton. Pennsylvania’s Primary Elections are on Tuesday, April 22. Everyone, please come out to vote. Hillary needs a victory in PA to clench the nomination. Unfortunately, the deadline has passed for those who are not registered to vote for this primary.
I had a great time and got to meet so many new people in the Pittsburgh GLBT community. It was something that was out of my element, but just awesome none the less.
Hear more about it in my latest podcast! Pictures from the event are below… including me with some brave, caring, and honest people who came out to support our community. Thanks to each and every one of them.
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Members of the GLBT community either love or hate Showtime’s now late show, Queer As Folk. I loved it and still love it. I first remember hearing that the show was coming to America having first started in the UK. At the time, I purchased the original Queer As Folk (QAF) series from Britain. It was literally one of the best things I had ever seen. It was a glimpse into a truly dramatized gay life. Now many will say that QAF does not accurately reflect the gay and lesbian community. Well, of course it doesn’t. What is the chance that there are a group of seven people who experience every gay issue on the face of the planet? None! Is it worse than daytime TV? Actually, it was a lot better.
What both series did was validate me as a young gay male. In the year 2000 when the American QAF started, I was only one year out of the closet and highly insecure about being a gay male. I felt alone and really did not know many, if any other gay males. To see gay characters in a somewhat real setting was outrageously exciting.
I may have started watching it on the second run of the first year. That would place me in Long Island at a time having just moved from living for nine months in Pittsburgh, where the show was set. It was filmed in Toronto. Actually, Pittsburgh does have a Liberty Avenue, but it is no way as exciting as the Church Street in Toronto that you saw on the show. In fact, someone recently told me that Toronto’s gay club district was pretty well misrepresented also. Who cares?
I had to be home every Sunday night to watch QAF. It was a staple in my life for the first few seasons, the rest I’ve seen on DVD. I experienced those emotional ups and downs with the characters. It was a view into a world and lifestyle that I somehow belong to. Let’s face it, high drama is part of the life of everyone, straight or gay. Combine that with great writing and phenomenal actors and you have a recipe for a great show.
There are people out there that believe that drugs and promiscuous sex are not that prevalent in the GLBT community. I’m here to tell you that that is just not true. You cannot walk into a bar/club in New York and not see someone high. I’ve seen people doing bumps and hits of whatever on the dance floor… more than once. Also, you put two men together and they will have sex. It’s a simple fact of life. Most men are highly sexual beings and want to do it all the time. We did see a lot of that on QAF and it shocked me the first time around, but I have later come to learn that it is somewhat factual. Do the bars fill up on a Saturday night in Pittsburgh? Not usually. The “upscale” bathhouse is where the guys go. We like sex, what can I say.
Queer As Folk meant a lot of things to a lot of different people. For those of us who liked it, it was worth seeing a vivid portrayal of people in the community who had never seen gay people in their own environs before. I applaud the actors for putting their careers on the line for a show that they believed in. I also applaud Randy Harrison, Robert Gant, and Peter Paige for breaking the gay code of silence in Hollywood. The show helped a lot of people and I’m glad it was there to help me come out of my shell and have the knowledge and power to come out to everyone.
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I think most of you know that I keep specific political views about the candidates to a minimum here on my podcast and blog. I need to step out of that zone for a minute to discuss one of the most exciting events coming up in Pittsburgh. Tonight there will be a pub crawl covering several of the gay bars with three stars from Showtime’s Queer as Folk tonight. I was excited to hear about it on the Sirius OutQ News, “the only place to turn to for news from the GLBT community at the top of every hour.”
I was planning on going, but right now, mentally, me at a gay bar just isn’t happening. I found last night that there will be cocktails and conversation with the three stars from QAF, Michelle Clunie, Sharon Gless, and Robert Gant at a private residence tomorrow. I’m going. I don’t care how fat I am, I will be there in style.
I feel proud to be supporting Hillary Clinton who I believe is the best candidate for our community. What better way to do it with some of the cast of my all-time favorite TV series, Queer as Folk. I haven’t been this excited about anything in years. I will report back here as soon as I get home tomorrow evening. This could be great! I’m as giddy as a school girl. Also, I will either podcast or blog about my feelings about the TV show.
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