“We’re convinced that if we have children, we’re going to do everything in our power to make them gay. [emphasis added] Like maybe drinking a lot of extra soy milk while she’s pregnant, or anything that would work to make that happen. I’d just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.”
That quote from electronic music artist Moby in a recent (but undated) interview on PlanetOut.com appears to have caught the attention of that paragon of journalistic excellence, WorldNetDaily (view article).
I’m not going to try and defend Moby other than to say his statement was obviously partially in jest but also meant to express his honest feelings on stereotypical masculinity.
For the record, WorldNetDaily once reported that “40 percent of drivers [are] illuminating their headlights in daylight hours” in tribute to recently deceased Ronald Reagan, ignoring the fact most(*) new cars, mine included, have automatic daytime running lamps while other people simply make a good safety habit of driving with their lights on. This puts their journalistic ethos in the approximate range of talking parrots and the Weekly World News.
That is very nice Mr. Gonzales,
But perhaps more time spent writing about the important implications of “stereotypical masculinity,” and less time whining over a fairly benign article written by some crack head no name right wingers, would be a better use of your time (and mine perhaps).
heh, indeed. Hence the brevity.
I work for an automobile manufacturer. Your “obvious fact” is wrong. Only GM offered daytime running lamps on almost all GM vehicles about 5 years ago. They no longer offer it. Ford, Daimler-Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, etc., never offered daytime running lamps on all their vehicles, and virtually no vehicle made for the U.S. market has daytime running lamps. Please check your “facts” in the future.
fixed Mark, much appreciated.
Anyone wishing to further challenge my “obvious fact” (now backed up by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) should do so.
Look Moby comments are meant in jest and meant to attack stereotypical views of masculinity but somehow at the same time off putting to gays.
Let’s remember these people are entertainers willing to do or say almost anything to get some press, and so, he uses us to get some press.
He does not have to suffer any consequences, and by the way, is he not just sterotyping both straights and gays in his statement.
I for one, felt used.
Daniel, I think your comment on comparing WorldNetDaily to the Weekly World News was rather harsh. The Weekly World News has a lot more integrity in showing that it’s expressively a satirical newspaper like The Onion. :p
I saw that Moby quote in WND. It’s funny that WND would seize on it.
Moby’s statement is redundant. All kinds of people have gay kids anyway.
It doesn’t take any applied genetic engineering. There is no steering the DNA for such a happening. Anyone with a brain, especially gay people would know this reality.
The previous post is right, on a slow day a famous performer will say just about anything.
And we should not be surprised.
Moby has no reason to backtrack or apologize, what he said doesn’t especially carry any political clout.
Now, about the governor of my state, California.
He made a clear statement about ‘closing the borders’ in regard to our runaway illegal immigrant problem and the illegal immigrant advocates lambasted him for it. And the governor promptly retracted and pretty much attributed what he said to a plain English malfunction.
Having gay kids isn’t a social problem, but illegal aliens encroaching by the millions on our soil, with dangerous deference to Mexico certainly is.
Moby is just a musician with no influence on public policy.
Schwarzeneggar obviously is a ‘girlie man’ (yeah I said it!) about illegals as those he criticized about fiscal responsibility.