[lbo-talk] Queen for a Day: My Gay Makeover

[Dwayne Monroe]

I think this show's premise is quite funny.  I know a
lot of folks have reacted negatively for a variety of
political reasons but my own feelings are that,
"gaze", "empowerment" and capitalist issues aside
(way, way aside - let's place these concerns far away,
say, on the frigid surface of Pluto, and be done with
them as regards this silly program) it's not a bad
idea.

In fact, I personally benefited from a similar
'makeover' years ago.  Fortunately (and probably due
to the no-nonsense beliefs in equality and comfort
with paradox I learned from my family) I've never been
burdened with an abundance of homophobia.

So, when a Gay bud suggested, years ago, that I switch
from stiff, ugly dockers to tailored slacks, from beat
up sneakers to some very sharp shoes, get a flattering
haircut and say goodbye to rumpled cotton shirts and
hello to sateen (very nice synthetic btw - probably
quite evil somehow, but it feels like an electronica
CD's dream of the future - smooth, vaguely bluish in
tint and unruffled), I listened without reservation.

Was I liberated from the iron vice of capital?  No. 
Did I get laid and feel good?  Yes and uh, yes again. 
Ironic that a Gay man would help me do better with
women?  I suppose but it's an irony one can live with
quite comfortably.

Travelling to Hugo Boss, Armani and all the rest (my
friend's hope for me) was a bridge too far - I did
have to actually have money to eat after all - but the
change, which took for good it seems, was a lot of
fun.

As, I suppose, the show might be.

DRM

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