TOM THE DANCING BUG: Definitely-Not-Gay-Man Meets His Arch Nemesis!!

• [cubby96]

  That’s pretty funny.  Might be a bit too ‘on the nose’ but what the hey, this is one of the first TTDB comics I’ve laughed at, so I’ll let it go.

• [corydodt]

  Congrats on the SPJ award, Ruben. Proving yet again it’s well-deserved.

• [J. Brad Hicks]

  “Christ, what an asshole.”

• [PhosPhorious]

  Also:

  Are you saying human beings AREN’T animals?

  Then what the hell are we?

• [aHarshDM]

  Looks like somebody hasn’t passed the gom jabar.

• [fnc]

  Funny comic, but I consider the whole ‘choice’ thing (while easily dismantled) a pointless distraction.

  We SHOULD be arguing over how wrong it is to limit peoples’ freedom to do things that cause no demonstrable harm to anyone else.

  • [Ian Wood]

    Give that indeterminately-aliased person a cookie.

• [Matthew Jones]

  Wait, something doesn’t gel. When gay bars open in cities, they rarely advertise or promote. How did Strate’s secretary know about the club’s opening? She’s obviously a straight fem… wait, is that an adam’s apple i see?

  • [erin jones]

    Honey, you obviously haven’t visited the dozens of American gay bars that are inundated with straight girls every Friday and Saturday night. Seriously, it’s a thing now. So much of a thing that some bars have chosen to post politely-worded signs imploring their straight girl bar buddies to enjoy their visit, but PLEASE, keep the screeching to a minimum. Of course, a minority of str8 women are screechy, but damn, the ones who are (think sorority stereotypes) can really take the fun out of your party.

    Gay bars (not lesbian bars) are now very popular choices for bachelorette parties, particularly in NYC. It seems to be a trend of the last few years. Bi and str8 women friends have told me they’re tired of being hit on constantly when they just want to have drinks and party. Hey, I’m all for it. Mix it up. (cf, John Water’s interview.) But man, those str8 girls love them some gay bars. Believe it.

    Also, as a female queermo, I can confidently say that I’ve seen that secretary at my local bar. What they say is true: We’re everywhere, practicing deviancy, strapping ‘em on, renting U-Hauls, assembling Ikea furniture and raising our kids. (Once we’ve outsmarted the hostile gatekeepers and bent the rules enough to adopt children from orphanages.)

    • [teapot]

      I’m a straight guy, but I’ve been to gay bars on multiple occasions. Everyone is high as fuck, there are *NEVER* any fights and everyone just wants to dance instead of out-cooling each other. Actually, now I think about it there was these bi American twins we met at some bar in Shinjuku’s ni-chome who were assholes, but it was probably just their inability to handle their alcohol (Their last name was “Woody”… I LOL’d).

      Once I went to a club in Sydney and the BOUNCER was rolling off his head. He had very little idea of where he was or what he was supposed to be doing. The other bouncer was lucid enough to be taking care of the one who had clearly dumped one too many es. Anyway, this comic is gold – especially how in frame 2 his left hand is, uh, “hidden” and in frame 3 he appears to be smelling said hand.

• [Marktech]

  That reminds me, http://gayhomophobe.com has updated again.

• [Cowicide]

  The homophobes are just… SOOOOoooo upset about all this.

• [Cowicide]

  … you must be an animal … load of nonsense spouted … deviant and perverted ….

  Dude, I’m not gay… but I bet you’d be such an animal in bed that you could tempt me just for the thrill.   Are you cruising me?

• [jtegnell]

  I feel like several of the posts here are in response to a post that has been removed.

• [jackbird]

  Um, wasn’t this Dan Savage’s joke from like two months ago?

• [SamSam]

  Awww… Antinous, I wanted to see teh troll! Now all I get to see is a lot of reasonable, boring, people responding to said troll and making reasonable arguments.

  • [Charlie B]

    I don’t think it’s Antinous’ fault, but rather due to disqus’s attempt at crowdsourcing moderation.

    I’m not sure if this is still true, but I think at one point I could easily delete any comment from any active disqus discussion on BB by using five separate accounts that discqus recognizes (which I have) from five separate IP addresses (which isn’t particularly difficult for me, since I have unlimited access to more than five class C IP blocks).

    I don’t like the way threads are now shut down after a relatively brief run (the old threads stayed open for years, with often interesting results) but perhaps that’s a semi-workable response to the problem.

    • [Antinous / Moderator]

      I go through the flagged bin because there are still people who will insist on flagged everything that they disagree with. If it appears to have been flagged due to disagreement, I’ll freshen it up, which I think resets the flags to zero. Maybe. If they’re borderline trollish, gross, etc., I leave them to the will of the mob.

• [Gay-Nerds.com]

  Love the comic. Featured it on our website for gay nerds! 
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  http://bit.ly/pCHmJx

• [Charlie B]

  The very small mob.  I’m glad you’re keeping an eye on it, though.

• [PhosPhorious]

  So you DO have gay urges, and choose to ignore them?

• [DaveMee]

  Breathing’s a choice too. Rite?

• [Teller]

  One choice being made is leaving up your comment to see how many darts it takes. Ever see Wicker Man?

  Merciful mod.

• [Adam Goetz]

  yawn

• [cuddlysatan]

  So, you choose who you’re attracted to? 
  Your first sentence is an assertion that you don’t back up, it’s just a hypothesis you leave swinging in the wind.

• [bja009]

  Fred Phelps, is that you?

• [bigomega73]

  If animals can’t choose and homosexuality is a choice, then how do you explain homosexual animals? Roy & Silo, the gay penguins have “not chosen” such a sinful lifestyle! To Hell with them!

• [pKp]

  OK, I’ll bite…

  *being* of a particular sexual orientation is not a choice. *acting* on said orientation is. Examples include heterosexual persons who choose not to have intercourse with anyone (priests/nuns, at least in theory, or some high-level athletes) AND homosexual persons who choose not to have intercourse with people they’re physically attracted to because of social pressure (Republican senat^H^H^H^H^H^H closeted gay teens).

  Also, “deviant and perverted” ? Perversion and deviance are psychiatric category, not moral ones, and last time I checked homosexuality isn’t in the DSM anymore.

  And I’ll stop feeding the troll now, so don’t bother answering…just wanted to put in an answer, because I’ve heard that weak-ass argument way too often.

• [kP]

  tl;dr: Choosing to be gay is irresponsible?      (yes, feeding the troll) Is this why gay soldiers must be relieved of their responsibilities?

• [PhosPhorious]

  Also:

  You say “deviant and perverted” as if these are BAD things.

• [Vin Reilly]

  The “choice” homosexuals make that most galls the likes of you is simply that they oppose those who, on the basis of a specious claim to “normality” think themselves better-qualified to rule.  They don’t “know their place” any more than you do, you pseudonymous troll.

• [Jason Shankel]

  Okay, once again, homosexuality is not behavior, it is an orientation.  If homosexuality is a choice then heterosexuality is a choice which means you chose to be heterosexual which means you could choose to be homosexual, right?

  Wrong.  Homosexuals are not just people who have sex with the same gender, they are people who are attracted to the same gender and not attracted to the opposite gender.

  I am straight.  I am attracted to women.  I can’t choose to be attracted to men.  I could choose, I suppose, to have sex with men if there was some compelling reason, but I can’t choose to be ATTRACTED to men.

  And also, by the way, it’s not either “no choice” or “deviant pervert.”  EVEN IF homosexuality is a choice, that doesn’t make it deviated or perverted or wrong.  It makes it a choice and in a free society we allow people to exercise their choices so long as it’s not harming anyone.

  And since, by you, everyone is free to choose to be straight, then no one who chooses to be gay could possibly be harming anyone simply by making that choice.

• [Emma Jones]

  Choice implies action. Homosexuality isn’t an action, it’s an attraction that drives an action. That’s libido, honey.

  But still, cute argument from a troll.

• [PhosPhorious]

  Is homophobia a choice?  If not, I apologize for my insensitive remarks; you are the way God made you and you can’t help yourself.

  If so, then walk east until your hat floats.

• [bigomega73]

  I don’t think Asdfasdf is all that familiar with anything “swinging in the wind”…

• [kP]

  I love your use of ^H (Ctrl-H for backspace on older display terminals)

• [Emma Jones]

  Technically, no. Not for humans. We have involuntary breathing. Whales, yes.

  (Sorry, bad habit of pointing out bad analogies in arguments, even if I agree with them.)

• [Steve Nickell]

  Bravo, Jason!  Finally a nice, concise and clear missive.  A little lacking in logic at the end for a purely Platonic argument, but the first part was spot on.

• [davidasposted]

  Steve, even when you offer a compliment it seems you must also criticize. Your choice, or were you just born that way?

• [Marktech]

  >> I love your use of ^H (Ctrl-H for backspace on older display terminals)

  Some old-skool conventions still have their uses.

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  Marktech, UK