{"id":252,"date":"2000-10-03T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2000-10-03T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/10\/03\/meat_market\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T09:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:49:37","slug":"meat_market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/10\/03\/meat_market\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forget all that queer counter-culture posturing<\/strong> you keep encountering on the Internet. Every gay blog I\u2019ve looked at today has confessed to watching The Sexiest Bachelor in America<\/a><\/i> last night, just like I did. We\u2019re all ashamed. We were all horrified (if that eerie picture on Fox\u2019s page for the show isn\u2019t ominous, I don\u2019t know what is). But we all made sure we didn\u2019t have to pee during the swimsuit competition. (Which was lame, by the way. You know guys, there\u2019s a reason the rest of the world makes fun of Americans for swaddling themselves with so much fabric on the beach. We look silly in all that fabric. And not as sexy as people are obviously hoping for.)<\/p>\n

Despite the trashiness of this particular televised meat market \u2014 and for once it\u2019s good to see men being the meat and not the shoppers, I might add \u2014 leave it to American televison to make sure that the winner was the most wholesome of all when it came right down to it. As if the only way to excuse such a tawdry (yet fun, in its way) celebration of beefcake was to show that in the end, it\u2019s just good manners that matter the most.<\/p>\n

But maybe that\u2019s being a little too cynical of me. After all, this was on Fox, a fine, upstanding network if there ever was one. I\u2019m not crazy about the lucky Mr. Virginia, but I was surpised and pleased that the judges (by coercion or actual fairness) would grant the prize to a guy who was all hairy and beefy, but not cut like a gym rat, the way the other guys were. Watch the swimsuit competition: he\u2019s puffing up his chest so much to hold in his gut that he might pop a lung. Good for him, even if he was the blandest of them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forget all that queer counter-culture posturing you keep encountering on the Internet. Every gay blog I\u2019ve looked at today has confessed to watching The Sexiest Bachelor in America last night, just like I did. We\u2019re all ashamed. We were all horrified (if that eerie picture on Fox\u2019s page for the show isn\u2019t ominous, I don\u2019t … Continue reading “Meat Market”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural","category-ultragay"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71778,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/71778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}