Wednesday, November 27

What are you looking at? - It's not every day that Drew Sullivan and Dan Savage cover the same topic in their columns, yet they have both recently decided to discuss how straight men feel about getting hit on by gay men.

Drew has posted selected reader responses to his comment that "The issue that genuinely perplexes me is the fear and panic that many straight men have when they think another man might find them attractive." To be honest, his expressed cluelessness makes him seem much more naïve than I would have expected from a nearly 40-something openly gay man who fancies himself a deep thinker (though perhaps not about psychology). Dan, on the other hand, has some pretty insightful things to say about hitting on "straight" men in his Savage Love columns for November 7th and this week.

Savage may be too much in favor of open seduction, however. Just look at all the trouble grown men will go through to keep their TiVos from calling them gay!