Any fellow who looks as good as the fellow in the picture has my permission to wear any checkered skirt that he likes. Bonus points if he also has a really big sword with him.

Thank you. I'm gay, I don't like that the word is used for that meaning. But, the bottom line is that it is used for that meaning whether I like it or not.

I've got to be honest, I'm gay and this doesn't really offend me... I think that it should be tagged as "offensive" or a slur, rather than merely informal, but I can't really get behind dictionary activism.

Fair enough, I'd imagine that's a pretty big club...

Wow...I jumped the gun in responding to your first comment rather than this one.

I do this. So much. It's really for the best. Except for that one dude from high school who I kind of knew but wasn't really friends with, who links these HILARIOUSLY STUPID libertarian articles...

To be fair, I'm pretty sure Miley has been getting way more heat lately than Gaga. The other artists may use similar tactics, but the targets of those tactics are not personally offensive to me.

Well, in this case, as a member of the pandered-to demographic, I think think it's up to me to determine my own appropriate level of annoyed distaste.

Ah....seeing as a great deal of his pains as a gay man are probably a direct result of women's pains for being...women (I feel like at least I can totally say that without worrying about being called on privilege), I would really expect far better from him.

Probably good advice. There's also the "Never put your finger on the trigger unless you are intending to shoot" saying, that I would assume that any legal gun owner would be fairly familiar with (I have shot a gun a total of once in my life, at a gun range, which I was visiting with my adorably right wing…

...not sure if satire, or just racist troll...

Duh fuck?

I can't stop her from pandering, but I don't have to respect her for it.

That's why he should be your problem!!!! You help to create this monster, shouldn't your country bear some responsibility for ending it?

1) Whomever caused those reasons to happen is a fucking asshole.

I can speak for all my latinos we do not have space for him over here. No, we don't.

Probably....maybe I just wanted to feel optimistic after reading more about the Detroit murder story?

Hmm....Gaga using her influence as something other than a vehicle with which to gain more influence? Color me surprised.

THAT'S FUCKING SCARY.

That's like trying to argue that male privilege and rape culture aren't problems only because a relatively small number of people commit rapes each year. The bigger picture plays its part in allowing these situations to occur.