Rupert: In some circles may be considered "rough trade"If you believe the blogger buzz floating around today, it would appear as though Aussie walking fossil and media whore enabler Rupert Murdoch has removed "gay" from the orientation listing on the News Corp. owned MySpace.
The story (excerpted) from Raw Story:
The popular social networking site MySpace appears to have eliminated the ability of users to list their sexual orientation as 'Gay' within their profiles.
The screen shot below shows that the function that allows MySpace users to edit their personal profiles has eliminated 'Gay' as an option under the 'Background and Lifestyles' section. Curiously, users can still list themselves as 'Lesbian' or 'Bi.'
Who what on the who now? So muff-munching is kosher, and apparently it's okay to suck the occasional ding-dong so long as you don't turn pro? Cue my confusion-face.
Frankly I think this was some overzealous database tomfoolery (or in MySpace's case "Tom"-foolery). Likely the data monkeys were working on the MySpace DB and neglected to turn the gayness back on or something after a routine scrubbing. Whatever. Big deal. Even a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist like myself finds this a little goofy. Why eschew gay but leave in "bi," which as every regular viewer of the long lost Rikki Lake show knows means "Bi the way, I'm gay!" To be generous, "bi" is just shorthand for Junior Varsity Gay.
Relax kids, there's always facebook, and friendster, and the innumerable clones that are being built currently by Rolling Stone, Spin, Amazon, Clearchannel, and every other corporate stooge standing in the wings trying to sell you sneakers and Doritos.
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