Anderson, darling, what is the problem?
Anderson Cooper says it’s bad to describe something, say, electric cars as “gay”.
“I was sitting in a movie theater over the weekend,” he said during an Ellen guest appearance, “and there was a preview of a movie, and in it, the actor said, ‘that’s so gay,’ and I was shocked that not only that they put it in the movie, but that they put that in the preview, they thought that it was okay to put that in a preview for the movie to get people to go and see it.
“I just find those words, those terms, we’ve got to do something to make those words unacceptable cause those words are hurting kids. Someone else I talked to recently said that the words people use and the things people say about other kids online, it enters into their internal dialogue. And when you’re a kid, it can change the way you see yourself and the way you think about yourself, and the worth that you give to yourself…”
Ergo it is bad to describe CNN anchors as gay even when we mean happy. Oh, Anderson. Mahal ka pa naman namin. You should come to Manila. We say “Ang bakla!” and “Hoy, bakla” all the time. To girls.
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October 8th, 2010 at 18:44
I adore Anderson and Kathy Griffin’s tandem. She’s his guilty pleasure. Hehe.
October 8th, 2010 at 20:00
I want to be Anderson Cooper when I’m 50. I don’t want to date him – I want to be him. Reading this post, it seems like I might be on my way to being him ( or like him – whatever ). The other day – I was in a tech forum online and someone described the iPhone User Interface as gay-ish. That comment is offensive. In today’s society – the gay word is not used to describe something fabulous. The gay word is used to ridicule the object being described as GAY. Today – I don’t mind being called GAY – because I am. However – I do mind having people use the word to describe trash.
October 8th, 2010 at 21:04
is anderson cooper gay? please say it isn’t so. will the vanderbilt lineage end with him?
October 8th, 2010 at 21:49
@helenb: I have yet to find a news clip/article where he formally came out and admitted that he is gay. In one interview he just said that he delivers the news – so he can’t be the news – so he declined to answer that question. I can’t remember which magazine named him the most powerful gay man a couple of years ago. Google it — you will see a lot of things said about him and his sexuality.
October 8th, 2010 at 22:09
I once had a dream where Anderson Cooper and Matt Lauer started necking. On air. It was wonderful.
October 8th, 2010 at 22:29
I have a friend who says “Bading kasi siya” whenever she dislikes a heterosexual male person and this always gets me so mad. What is it about being “bading” that seems to automatically explain everything that is wrong about an otherwise heterosexual person? Being gay means someone is attracted to someone who is of the same sex, and nothing more. It is not, and should not be used to ascribe, some moral flaw on a person. A male person liking another male person is not inherently evil. The thing about speaking out against this is that people will invariably think that you are standing up for gays because you are gay yourself, since if you were a heterosexual male, you wouldn’t think that anything is wrong about this statement. A heterosexual male might even be expected to make this same statement. That’s why Anderson Cooper making this statement makes the news, because it seems like he is giving clues on his own sexuality. If Chi Chi La Rue makes this same statement, it would not see the light of day in Huffington Post.
October 8th, 2010 at 23:37
AC is like the new Morrissey with all the public speculation.
October 9th, 2010 at 17:37
He’s too soft for a gay guy. Really, his reasoning is just too gay for me.
October 9th, 2010 at 20:31
bravo mr. Cooper for standing up for gays.