“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE” -ANDY WARHOL

The different attitudes which men and women hold towards gay members of the opposite sex is a case in point. What straight men want from lesbians is very simple; they want to watch them have sex. They're quite happy to pay, even! (Don't get me wrong, I love being a hack. But when I hear about women getting paid to have sex with other women, I do wonder if I'm in the wrong business...)Many straight women, on the other hand, want far too much from gay men. They want them to be best friend, wardrobe mistress, facilitator, father figure... they want them to make everything all right, wiping the slate clean of all the disappointments that men who were actually vile enough to see them as sexual beings - the dirty swine! - inflicted on them.The latest beneficiary of this colossal collective female soppiness is Gok Wan, who like many other men, straight and gay alike, seems to have one of those magic mirrors - you know, those lunatic looking-glasses that reflect back to the ugliest of men a veritable love god who is in some way qualified to comment on the physical deficiencies of women. Mr Wan has successfully seen off the two-headed atrocity that was Trinny and Susannah with his Channel 4 show, How To Look Good Naked; wow, dig the logic there! A man who is, by definition, at best unmoved and at worst repelled by the naked female form being paid to show you sad bitches how not to make men run screaming for the sanctuary of the gay bar.

-The Guardian
Sept 7 2008