My friend and former co-worker/drudge to Arianna Huffington, Adriana, always keeps her eyes peeled for me for news of the queer while she’s blogging for Takepart.com. Adriana tipped me off to Scientific American blogger Jesse Bering’s recent piece about a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology regarding the human ability to distinguish men’s sexual orientation based solely on their face.

In a series of experiments, starting with full faces and dwindling down to only the eye and mouth regions, participants were more often than not able to identify the sexual orientation of the man whose face or facial feature they were viewing. I find it easy to identify a gay man’s face cause there’s usually a dick on it.

The scientists who conducted said experiments suggest this innate knowledge is an evolutionary tool for women to know which men “aren’t worth the trouble and for men to know who’s not really a sexual competitor.” While perusing UrbanDictionary.com, Bering comes across two definitions for so-called, “gay face.” One suggests that us gay men have mongoloid features which Bering quickly dismisses as derogatory and having no evidence although I hear Corky from Life Goes On knows how to work that tongue. The second Urban Dictionary definition begins with a twinge of possible logic:

The use of certain expressions can become ingrained in the musculature of the face over time. Since effeminate gay men utilize similar facial expressions as women, they develop female aging and muscle contraction patterns in their face.

But quickly veers off course:

For example, gay face includes tightness around the mouth from pursing the lips, a facial expression common to gay men and women—but not to heterosexual men. Also, gay men are more emotionally expressive, leading to a general ‘tightness’ and muscular activation throughout the entire face. Gay face includes an eye expression that is both surprised-looking and predatory. Eyebrows are usually arched higher than that of straight men, and eyebrow hair is manicured.

Now I resent that. That is not a shocked or predatory look on my face, that is me smiling with my eyes. I’m not thinking of little boy dick, I’m thinking of bunny rabbits and rainbows. Furthermore, I love a natural brow on a man. I discourage the manicuring of one’s eyebrows unless you’re Fyvush Finkel or Gene Shalit. Now if I could just learn to smile with my mouth. And suck dick.

See also: Physiognomy

This movie makes me want to rip my face off, stick needles in whatever is left, and then fuck it. I hate Judd Apatow’s films, I hate the name Judd Apatow, I hate the fat guy with the curly hair, and I hate Paul Rudd.

Watch a scene from this bunk-ass movie.

People love to hate on a tranny. In a piece for the Advocate entitled, “My Sisters,” Patrick Moore eloquently states that trans people are at the core of the queer struggle because they “challenge both gay and straight ideas of respectability.”

The media seems to be perpetuating an idea that trans people are cuh-ray-zee and freakish. Unlike my last post about the transgender mafia boss, while it may be an interesting factoid, Mrs. N-J’s gender is inconsequential to the story.

Now this is a real Unabashed Queer Bee-otch. A male-to-female transgender mafia boss. Fuck yeah.

I remembered that I had no Ambien at 10:30 last night so I threw on a housecoat over my bra and panties and shlepped to CVS. “Dollah-fifty for good night sleep” said the pharmacist in broken English referring to my $45 bottle of Ambien.

On my way out I noticed two handsome men perusing a shelf together so I made sure to spy on them. Ah-ha! I knew it. Personal lubricants…and pregnancy tests. It was the lubricant/pregnancy test shelf.  I don’t know which one they were looking for but I sure was turned on.

“QUEERS READ THIS” is a leaflet passed out at the 1990 Pride March in New York City published “anonymously by Queers.” It is a manifesto meant to empower, enrage, and fire up complacent gays into action. The leaflet’s final section is entitled “I Hate Straights,” an epithet that enters my mind on a regular basis.

After seeing an all-gay cast in a performance piece last weekend, I commented to a gay friend that gay people are more talented than straights. “I don’t know about that,” he said with his brow furrowed. So, in the fine art of Matt Siegel, I took it to the next level and said, “I hate straight people.”

“A lot of my best friends are straight,” he said as if trying to raise my awareness.

Didn’t he know he was simply supposed to agree with me, not try to teach me a goddamn lesson? My absurd comments were meant to bring us together as gay sistas. Gay people rarely say that we hate straights. We rarely turn the tables and try to exclude them and deny their basic human rights. That is the fun in saying the shit.

My biological father’s mother, the dreadful cunt, used to say, “You don’t hate, you dislike.” I hate her. Hate is not a strong word. For instance, I hate when people say, “It is what it is.” I hate the Overstock.com commercial with the country couple singing to each other. Levels of hate vary. If it makes you feel better, replace hate with resent. I resent straights unless they are obese–the fats know our pain. I especially resent straight men. I especially, especially resent straight, white men. (more…)