Well, they’re not getting their hands on me, Kathryn, I can assure you of

that. At the risk of taking this stuff more seriously than it deserves, the

program Queer Eye for the Straight Guy seems to be another attempt to

mainstream the contempt and condescension that male homosexuals feel towards

normal men. The subtext is that normal guys are clunky, clueless doofuses

(doofi?) who need to be taken in hand (sorry, sorry) by the hipper, smarter,

more knowledgable guys of the homosexualist fraternity. Kind of like what

TV sitcoms have done in re the male-female wars. Well, fiddlesticks to

that. I have got to this point of my life without knowing which end of a

blow-drier is which, and I hope to make it clean through to the grave

without finding out.