Comments on George Takei's Gay PSA

that is pure goodness right there!

wonderful, just wonderful

I absolutely LOVE George. He sits in on The Howard Stern Show from time to time. You should hear the stories he has told!!!!

This is the best! People like George Takei almost make me feel like there's hope for the planet.

[This reminds me of the "everywhere I go homos keep giving me blowjobs" piece from the Onion. Anyone got a link to that piece?]

I love how he starts off so completely and convincingly serious with his deep voice and precise speech. Makes the end so much more whacked. Loved it.

George Takei's willingness to address this issue is admirable, but the message has little impact on issues like marriage equality and employment protection because, ultimately, it is self-defeating: ignorant audiences can ontinue to think that gay sex is absurd and gay audiences can foolishly believe that they have won acceptance because the Jim Kimmel show lets them make fun of Tim Hardaway via the skit venue. To Jim's benefit, he did not laugh at the end of the clip.

This is made of win.

above Daniel

lighten - funny is funny - when George Takei gives that "why I love this fellow and want to marry him" speech - he will indeed help change our history

Oh, Daniel. You're precious.

Eh, I have to admit I chuckle more than once when I see the look on Takei's face as he moves his hand over Hardaway's nether-regions, proclaiming his "love". I chuckle because I know that if Hardaway and other people like him watch George, they will get uncomfortable and I like that the tables are turned. Its schadenfreude.

But I also wince like I do when I see Uncle Edgar clip his fingernails between courses at a nice restaurant, much to the disquietude of his fellow restaurant-goers. Because I know that many men like George, who spent their twenties and thirties in the closet, are continually motivated by a deep desire for approval, perhaps moreso than changing the collective history of a people, and now they tragically pursue men who are twenty to thirty years younger than they are, to make up for lost time, and other people, especially those who will never confront such loneliness, find it comitragic. I just find it sad!

Oh Daniel. Dude, go learn something about Takei before you trot out the old queen stereotype. He's a pretty interesting guy.

DANIEL

I think you might be a sad case of country rube who took too many classes somewhere in a poor school.

It is called what the hell diff. does age really make, and is so common in this era , like inter racial dating, who gives a shit?

Lonely old gay men, give me a break. You have been reading crappy fiction or just hanging out with nitwit twinkies who have yet to acquire any wisdom on age and aging..

My dad was 28 years older than my mom, they had the best marriage possible and lots of love and affection and everything else, including three smart and beautiful kids. Hey.

When life can run to the century, ten or twenty years of age difference means nothing.

Get a second clue, Sir Clueless.

(Edgar is YOUR problem, to start, tell him to leave a giant tip)

@#11

Yeah Takei is an interesting guy. Been with his partner for 17 years. But not many folks who watched him on the Jim Kimmel show even knew he was gay, judging by the number of youtube comments, mon dieu! The general humourous appeal of this skit was "oh look at the gross old dude hitting on the young athletic guy"... how gross! how taboo! how hilarious!

What is it these days with the inside jokes on television that not everyone gets but somehow have mass appeal? I am thinking Borat, Donnie Davies, etc...

@ denny

Yes actually I did get my education somewhere. Namely eight years of hanging out at the Cuff, the Eagle, Starbucks on Olive Way and other hangouts for lonely old gay men on Capitol Hill

Did I say all old gay men are lonely? No I didn't. Some are fortunate to have more important things to live for than hoping they can work it out with someone 25 years their junior, a proverbial needle in a haystack, I'd imagine, although I'd be interested in scientific studies that prove otherwise.

See what might be the primary difference in perspective between me and you is not our educational background; it is that
I am very skeptical of any individual or collective mindset that is centered around sexual attraction. Was sex the primary reason your parents stuck together? I doubt it. It was probably commonalities of interest, something which I unfortunately didn't witness, nor should I expect to witness in the failed relationships between gay men separated by decades of experience.

George Takei is hilarious. He's completely destroying the primary spoken motive of homophobes like Hardaway, the "I don't like getting hit on by men" whine. "Gay panic" was the defense used at many trials of people accused of committing violence towards gays. Way to go, George!

Poor, poor Hardaway, life must be so hard for you, getting hit on by men all the time...

I think this is brilliant. To include a person in "our World" with humor is so excellant. The one honest point that everyone has to realize is this is all about sex! So many people resist the reality of our continual sexuality. It never leaves us that divine parodox that is at the same time our animal instinct and godly power! No matter where you land on the scale from one to the other it's about what makes you hard!You have to laugh!