Today, a friend (mtails) and I were discussing gender-neutral pronouns (instead of "he" or "she") that can be used in English. It's something I had thought about in the past, especially when I write essays [and find it awkward to avoid writing "he or she"]. It didn't occur to me, however, until today what some ways to achieve this are. I thought about creating my own gender-neutral pronoun (GNP), but our conversation today helped with that.

( Gender-Neutral Pronouns )

I've been thinking. ( The problem with gay marriage )

Isn't it about time we do something?

Marriage is love.

Yeah. I'm just like everyone else, except for those daRned straight supremists... and "family protection" advocates (despite the fact that the "typical American family" exists in smaller portion of the population than they'd like to think... one that probably makes less than half the population)... hmmm... yeah. I made my point. Go away. It's Civilization time. [I have my cavalry and marines... and cannons... Watch out, s0rr0w]

So I knew Teddy was gay. His metrosexuality just kept throwing off my possibly-existing gaydar... but certainly my paranoid observations of attractive guys...errr.. if that made sense. Since that didn't, here are some interesting words I learned from WordSpy:

Metrosexual: (met.roh.SEK.shoo.ul) n. An urban male with a strong aesthetic sense who spends a great deal of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle.
—metrosexuality n.

Pomosexual: (poh.moh.SEK.shoo.ul) n. A person who shuns labels such as heterosexual and homosexual that define individuals by their sexual preferences. Also: PoMoSexual. —adj.

( More Terminology )

Last night, I watched an hour of horrible, stereotypical gay roles on tv. Amazingly enough, it was on Fox. That disappointed me. Usually I hope Fox to be a little better about this--- especially since a few years ago, they tried a gay-themed tv show with John Goodman (quite funny, I thought... but it was cancelled). Anyway... the shows:

King of the Hill: Bill pretends to be gay in order to get customers his haircutting team with Louanne. He, of course, was a stereotypical gay--- along with the other (real) gay male there. It was a little disappointment no lesson was really learned about this. I mean, he feels bad for pretending to be gay--- but I think that's just because he looses his job when he comes out as being straight.

Oliver Beene: One of Oliver's friends, Michael, is a stereotypical homosexual--- as a child. It kind of gets on my nerves. His role was actually useful, as he helps to "straighten" out Ted--- who wants to impress a girl and needs style.

Now, it's not that I mind this stuff... because I do. It just kind of got me a little annoyed at the fact there is hardly any good gay representation on tv. The best gay representation so far has been Carter from Spin City, in my opinion. Errr... I think that was his name. I think John Goodman's tv show a few years ago could have been great, too.