Misuse of words, or Did she really out him?

[karmyn75.livejournal.com]

As we all know, LKH has a strange way with words and misusing them in amusing ways. There's the infamous lose/loose, the new air/err, and my new favorite, the overuse and abuse of 'homophobe'.
I'm the first to admit I have no sort of gaydar at all. I mean, even after I saw a photo of a friend in a newspaper story about the university glbt club I still wasn't sure he was gay. Now he's in the middle of a sex change.
Anyway, it seems to me that LKH is misusing the word homophobe. When Richard is uncomfortable at seeing JC naked, Anita says he's homophobic. Maybe he just doesn't like seeing other men naked all the time. Nothing homophobic about that. The use of the word homophobe heavily implies that JC is totally and completely gay. Of course the readers know he and the other men are, but LKH has been denying this all along. Now she outs him.

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[windiain.livejournal.com]

God, I need sleep. I thought LKH had outed a trans 'friend' on her blog for a moment then, which says a lot about the woman in that I wasn't surprised she'd do that. *headdesk*

Agreed. She's not quite grasped the meaning of homophobia. Just because you may not be comfortable with members of the same sex being naked does not mean you think being gay is wrong and evil. It just means that you probably have some social and personal hangups that mean you're just not comfortable with naked people. Or you're a very private person. Hell, I don't like seeing naked nether regions on ladies (or men, for that matter, but that's because penises are funny. Yes, I am ten), but that doesn't mean I give a damn about what they do in their sex lives.

LKH really gives me the impression that she likes to appear as if she's hip, cool and open-minded, but she really isn't as she has little understanding of things like homosexuality (she's probably to uncomfortable to buy a gay calendar to research it). So her attempts at being cool and in the know are frankly embarrassing.

And yes, it's so very funny that she's uncomfortable with homosexuality, and yet manages to create an ensemble of some of the most obviously gay men ever. Who aren't gay. No, really. :D

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

I like noses. Noses are cool, man!

[sharkcowsheep.livejournal.com]

Noses are cool, for they are the source of BOOGERS! Boogers are funny.

[windiain.livejournal.com]

I was about to dispute that, because I have a stinking cold, and I'm leaking snot... but I have to admit looking into my tissues with childish fascination. So actually, yes, boogers are funny. :D