10.19.2010

My Favorite Things

This post is dedicated to all of my homosexual brothers and sisters out there in the fight to prove one point: love is love, and the rest of you can go screw yourselves. It was inspired by a post I ran into on Facebook by a person that I wish I had the luck to meet - Erik Lehman, a sound design MFA student at CalArts, with whom I should be working closely. But, alas, that is quite a different update. Instead, I will link the article here, and then continue on with my post.

Amidst the data collected from OkCupid's dating service, they have a very interesting section headed "Stuff Gay People Like" and the complementary "Stuff Straight People Like," both separated out very neatly into gender.  I found my personal tastes to be atypical for a straight male and decided to share.  I'm going to list everything on the two male lists and place an [X] next to the bands, hobbies, movies, activities, and other things that I do, in fact, enjoy.

Oh, and: these are listed in order of greatest number of likes on the dating profiles to least.

Stuff Gay Men Like
[X] The Devil Wears Prada
Britney Spears
[X] Mean Girls
Kelly Clarkson
The Color Purple
Project Runway
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Running with Scissors
M.I.A.
[X] Imogen Heap
A boyfriend
[X] Lily Allen
[X] Lady Gaga
[X] The theater
[X] Katy Perry
[X] Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[X] Tori Amos
Joni Mitchell
[X] Owl City
The right guy
David Sedaris
American Idol
[X] Harry Potter
[X] Angels in America
[X] Modern Family
[X] The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Came out
Maroon 5
Mr. Right
Gossip Girl
Moulin Rouge
[X] X-Men
Six Feet Under
[X] The theatre
Justin Timberlake
Nina Simone
[X] Black Eyed Peas
[X] Michael Buble`
[X] Ella Fitzgerald
Sufjan Stevens
[X] All-American Rejects
The XX
[X] Final Fantasy
The club
[X] Rocky Horror Picture Show
[X] Cuddling
Panic! at the Disco
[X] Jason Mraz
[X] Fiona Apple
[X] Kill Bill

Stuff Straight Men Like
Band of Brothers
Poker
Cars
My boat
Saving Private Ryan
Hunting
Fishing
My buddies
Golf
Sports
The right woman
Ping pong
Engineering
[X] Rock
Working out
Playing pool
Burn Notice
A country boy
Law enforcement
Can fix anything
Breaking Bad
[X] Tom Clancy
[X] Computers
[X] Building things
Tall, dark, and handsome
[X] Apocalypse Now
Coen brothers
Queens of the Stone Age
Full Metal Jacket
[X] Guitar
Van Halen
My band
Taxi Driver
UFC

Final Tally
Likes in common with gay men:  26
Likes in common with straight men:  6

Interesting.