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Monday, January 22, 2007

Little Pink Bows

posted by on January 22 at 18:40 PM

So… Craigslist features prominently in next week’s “Savage Love,” and I’m sitting at my desk dinking around in CL, checking things out. You know, research. And I find this ad. Don’t you think the guy in the ad owes us some sort of explanation for the pic on the right?

I mean, we can surmise, I guess, what he’s into and all. And maybe I’m old fashioned. But a word or two about those little pink bows would seem to be called for. Or, shit, maybe I just don’t get the whole CL thing.

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You are old-fashioned, which is very sweet in its way. But nobody on Craigslist owes anybody an "explanation" for how they present themselves; that's the whole point.

Posted by Boomer | January 22, 2007 6:58 PM
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Got it, thanks.

Posted by Dan Savage | January 22, 2007 7:01 PM
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i think i look great in that picture.

Posted by adrian | January 22, 2007 7:18 PM
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i feel like the pink bows are an explanation unto themselves.

Posted by andy | January 22, 2007 7:41 PM
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Clearly it's not a match if you're not instantly aroused by photo alone.

Posted by Kim | January 22, 2007 7:48 PM
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Hah - that is so totally typical of the mixed-messages that guys give out online it isn't funny! I suppose that this one figures: A) I'm a(nother) big-time Seattle bottom; b) I'm into frilly pink outfits; c) therefore all Seattlites with "bottom tendencies" are also into [insert your kink-du-jour here]. Maybe some entrepreneur will create a translator plug-in for personals posts, for example "can't host" converts to "I'm sneaking around on the side",or "I'm 39" = "I'm 46".

Posted by MarkyMark | January 22, 2007 7:52 PM
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Seeing the pink bows next to his beach hotness is really disappointing for me and my rather mainstream taste. The beach hotness got my hopes up. Hopefully he will find someone to share in his unique taste in night wear.

Am I the only one who thinks that could possibly be 2 different people? Perhaps this was posted by a jilted lover. People do lie on the inter-tubes and the 2nd pic doesn't show his face. Of course in all likelihood he's just a hot guy with some kinky taste.

Posted by Brandon H | January 22, 2007 7:58 PM
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@ 7

yeah he either gained or lost a fair bit of gut between the taking of the two pics or it's different people.

Posted by gnossos | January 22, 2007 8:16 PM
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If it were a spurned lover, wouldn't the "normal" photo be more revealing? A better shot of his face?

A lot of people post pictures of themselves taken in different years, if not decades. This could this be his best shirtless shot and his best pink panties shot.

Posted by EXTC | January 22, 2007 8:28 PM
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That guy needs to ask God for help controlling his urges:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MRWqlf_8M8&eurl=

Posted by patrick C | January 22, 2007 8:56 PM
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It made me wonder, Can he not afford shoes to complete that outfit?

Posted by Amy Kate | January 22, 2007 9:12 PM
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Boomer, you can't be for real.

Nobody owes anyone an explanation or apology for anything on Craigslist, but cerebral people do read it, and do use it to hook up, and this ad (and that picture) is hilarious. It's so random! "Provably hot 28 yo with sweet body and good taste in manpris looking for LTR" /= "crossdresser with no shoes taking pictures of himself in a dark room". An additional line, like "Am discovering kink" would have made this ad perfectly unfunny and pretty typical Craigslist fare. As it stands, it's ROFL fodder.

Posted by sniggles | January 22, 2007 9:40 PM
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you scared it away!

The post has been removed!

:(

Anyone capture a screen shot of it to share with the rest of us?

Posted by K X One | January 22, 2007 11:50 PM
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something dan would have owned up to when he was on his belly in steam rooms and doing drag

way before CL

Posted by steve | January 23, 2007 2:08 AM
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I be for real Sniggles--

A lot of people, when they post kink ads in personal ads or on Craigslist or what have you, aren't directing their ads at anyone in particular; they're writing the ad for themselves. It's a kick, putting it out there in a public forum and all, even if he had no intention of actually meeting anybody.

Oh--and The Stranger has the best personal ads of any newspaper in the country. Read 'em out loud, they're great.

Posted by Boomer | January 23, 2007 5:07 AM
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Leather Queens, Taffeta Queens what’s the difference? A fetish is a fetish.

Posted by jeff | January 23, 2007 5:44 AM
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Steve, my darling... ask anyone who knows or blows me... I have a hang-up about any sort of public nudity or sex. Drag, yes. Been there, done that, still have a closet full of expensive heels. But on my belly in a steam room? Never happened.

And real drag queens don't get boners doing drag. That action is/was for crossdressers and panty chasers. (Oh, okay: I did mess around with a couple of straight boys after a Sin party once -- in dominatrix drag. But that was... you know... research.

But, hey, thanks for the memories...

Posted by Dan Savage | January 23, 2007 7:02 AM
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