Thursday 13 December 2012

Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends

This all started on November 20, 2012 when CollegeHumor, a New York City based web site posted a video called "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends". In an amusing fashion, the clip puts forward the notion that if gay guys can't marry one another, they will marry the girlfriends of those men supposedly against gay marriage. Obviously CollegeHumor was on to something.

The YouTube channel Scotch Tape quickly responded with "Straight Men Respond to Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends". Then on November 23, 2012 the YouTube channel The Unsolicited Project chimed in with "Gay Women Will Marry Your Boyfriends". So far, so good.

But, it would seem that video #2 "Straight Men Respond to Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends" raised the ire of some women. Apparently a bunch of guys saying, "Go ahead and marry my girlfriend because I didn't want to marry her" didn't come across as being funny so much as being indicative of your traditional male chauvinist. Let the fireworks begin.

On December 2, 2012, a YouTube channel called TheCadClub posted "Ladies Respond to Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends".

Funny or Die posted "Straight Girls Respond To Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends" and the group of ladies took to calling the straight guys douchebags. Get the idea these ladies were none too pleased with the straight guys? One woman says, "Hey douchebags, you think vaginas are awesome? Really? Then why don't you want to put your mouth on them?"

Alice Dranger posted "Straight Women Respond: Straight Men's Response to Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends" in which the ladies all look to the camera to response directly to the straight guys with, "F**k you."

FeetFirstFilms posted "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends: Straight Women Respond To Straight Men" and a woman says, "Hey straight dudes, the chances of you being able to write a thank you note, put a stamp on it, and mailing it is the same chance of you finding my clitoris without me addressing the envelope for you."



Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends
Published on Nov 20, 2012 by CollegeHumor
FYI: I don't know why, but CollegeHumor recently changed their policy and disabled the embedding of their videos. C'est dommage. I've written to them about this. Click here for direct link to YouTube; opens in new Tab.




Straight Men Respond to: "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends"
Published on Nov 20, 2012 by Scotch Tape




Gay Women Will Marry Your Boyfriends
Published on Nov 23, 2012 by UnsolicitedProject



Ladies Respond to "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends"
Published on Dec 2, 2012 by TheCadClub



Funny or Die: Straight Girls Respond To "Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends"
In this video, the straight guys above who don't want to marry their girlfriends are referred to as douchebags. I like the line "Hey douchebags, you think vaginas are awesome? Really? Then why don't you want to put your mouth on them?"



Straight Women Respond:Straight Men's Response to Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends
Published on Dec 6, 2012 by Alice Dranger
"Hey douchebags, f**k you."


Gay Men Will Marry Your Girlfriends: Straight Women Respond To Straight Men
Published on Dec 2, 2012 by FeetFirstFilms
"Hey straight dudes, the chances of you being able to write a thank you note, put a stamp on it, and mailing it is the same chance of you finding my clitoris without me addressing the envelope for you."


Final Word
The purpose of the original CollegeHumor video is to support gay marriage. From there, people started riffing on the idea. It's all quite funny and brings up many issues about not just gay rights, but the traditional roles of men and women. I'm a man but I did find the ladies criticizing the "douchebags" to be funny. Ha ha ha. Ouch, but ha ha ha.

References

Wikipedia: CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor is a comedy website owned by IAC and based in New York City. The site features daily original comedy videos and articles created by its in-house writing and production team, in addition to user-submitted videos, pictures, articles and links. In early 2009, CollegeHumor's editorial staff wrote and starred in their own TV show, The CollegeHumor Show, on MTV. CollegeHumor is operated by CHMedia, a New York company that also owns Defunker, Sports Pickle, and Jest (formerly Today's Big Thing (also owned by IAC))

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