The David Hasselhoff Lifestyle (TM)

He's the real deal. I'm just a poser.

Thanks to PetiteDov, who has an essay titled The Single Girl's Worst Enemy: Her Gay Best Friend.

Girls who hang out mostly with gay men start to have the same expectations of straight men from interacting with gay guys. When I started dating straight men I couldn’t understand why I was so disappointed (besides the fact that I dated horrible losers) with their attitudes and hobbies. They weren’t gay men I was used to being around and it took time to adjust that straight men weren’t into talking about their feelings that much.

Gay guys give you false expectations of what it is like to date a straight guy. The guy you’re dating won’t love doing the same things your gay best friend does. Sure you can try to find a straight guy who is similar to the gay guy, but guess what he’s probably gay too. This caveat was pretty hard for me to adjust to. I really thought the guys I dated would want to go to the same places I went to with Harrison. Not so.

Harrison?

It's not about the problem with gay friends or even gay best friends per se, but the fake-pretend boyfriend-girlfriend nature of many such relationships.

posted by Ace at 07:59 PM

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