I just saw this photo of Tony Curtis on the CNN website:
I hate to admit this, but the very first thought that popped into my head was, "Wow! He sure looks gay!"
Now let's be completely clear here, I have ZERO negatively associated with that thought. It's not any qualitatively different from thinking, "Wow, he looks so young in that photo!" or "Interesting how his mouth is a bit crooked, but it adds to his good looks" or "I wish I could get my husband to wear his hair like that."
However, I wonder if I should be slapped with a wet fish for that thought anyway. If he were in high heels and lipstick and I thought "hey, he looks like a drag queen", I don't think anyone would find fault with that reaction. But there is none of that here, all I'm doing is looking at his facial features. Surely there is no such thing as "gay facial features"?
Fellow posters, in particular those of you identifying as something beside boringly mainstream straights, please do one of the following two things:
1) sternly tell me to divest myself of what are obviously some last vestiges of unfounded stereotyping about gay people.
2) laugh and say "relax, Hattie, a gay guy would look at that photo and think the same thing. No big deal."
I humbly await your judgment.