No, I fuck women. I really do.
Today I stumbled across a Facebook group called “Leather trousers (pants) on men are NOT gay“. Here is an extract from the description of the group:
This group is for STRAIGHT men who have the confidence to wear their leather trousers (pants) with confidence and manlyness and reclaim them from the gay community!
You can only join this group if you are a straight, MANLY man who isn’t afraid to wear them and show the world they’re great. We are *NOT* fetishists in this group, we wear our leathers like normal trousers and in all situations… if you are a fetishist, this group is not for you.
The group even has a pledge:
We, the straight people of the world, solemnly pledge that we will wear our leather strides and hold our head high in the knowledge that we are reclaiming leather back from the gay pride community as a damn good, comfortable and practical clothing choice.
I believe the name of the group would be more self-explanatory if it was “I am NOT a gay man even though I wear leather trousers”. Oh, what the heck, lets make the name even more self-explanatory: “I am NOT a gay man even though I wear leather trousers but many people seem to think that I am a gay man because I wear leather trousers and I don’t like that because being a gay man is a baaad thing (and, by the way, so is being a girly straight man)”.
Damn those inherently-girly-and-thus-BAD gay men for stealing our leather trousers!
I wonder what they talk about in their group? Presumably it’s all earnest discussion of the manly practicalities of wearing leather to the football game.
Straitjacketed
September 6, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Perhaps they do not talk much. Perhaps they just admire photos of each other in leather trousers. Strictly in a non-fetishistic way, of course. “Dude, your leather trousers are so… practical!”
Jonah
September 6, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I do like the fact that they’re simultaneously insistent that members post regular photos of themselves, while clutching their collective pearls at the thought of “creepy stalkers joining this group just for leather pics”.
I’m intrigued at the thought of their thorough Q&A for prospective members. Presumably it includes some sort of fiendishly clever test of heterosexuality.
Straitjacketed
September 13, 2009 at 2:21 am
The photo policy of the group more or less boils down to “post as many photos of you in leather pants as you can, man, we promise not to masturbate while looking at them”.
I would have thought that photographs of self-confessed straight men wearing leather trousers would have been a magnificent way of showing that one cannot always deduce sexual preference from clothing. But what do I know. I’m just a creepy stalker. :)
Jonah
September 13, 2009 at 12:58 pm