rant · moment 11 of 24
The New Queer: Straight Men Identifying as Queer
from #293 - Fat Activism with Jessica Kirson | The Tim Dillon Show · #293
3 min
Tim reads a confusing tweet from a man married to a woman who now identifies as queer, and he and Jessica riff on their bafflement, joking about the percentage of the country being mentally ill.
- Tim says there aren't that many famous lesbian comics, contradicting the claim that lesbians have had huge ones.
- He's never needed to see someone like himself on stage to care about comedy or feel that pursuing it was possible.
- A different generation of gay people exists now who have sex with the opposite sex, making gay identity a bigger tent.
- Being gay used to require actually being gay, but now it's "a big tent and a lot of the people that are in it are married and heterosexual."
- Tim reads a tweet from a man married to a woman claiming he's started identifying as queer over four months.
- The tweet claims he's attracted to a wide range of women but not men at all, yet doesn't know how to identify himself.
- Tim observes this is the success of the gay movement—straight people now want to be part of it.
- He estimates mental illness now affects 98 and a half percent of the country.
gay identity and sexualitymental illnessrepresentation in comedy