It's strange the things that come to you when you're sitting around bored. I remembered this and I've been giggling about it for the last half hour.

I like the fact that young people are rebelling against "sensitivity" and "politically correct" speech. The way they are in the habit of saying, "That's so gay!" -- and the fact that it makes middle-aged lefties mad -- gives me hope for the future. And naming a Magic-The-Gathering deck "hard gay" is magnificent.

As long as each new generation is unafraid to jeer and laugh at the previous generation's religion and pretension, then this country will continue to be great.

America is a land of continuous revolution. When the revolutions stop, when the revolutionaries are cowed into silence, then the America I love will be dead.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 08:58 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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1 You've never encountered Hard Gay before? (Lucky you!)

Warning: link contains video of the Japanese entertainer in question.

Posted by: Avatar_exADV at January 20, 2012 09:16 PM (GJQTS)

2 Avatar misspoke.  It really should have been Japanese "entertainer".

Posted by: Wonderduck at January 20, 2012 09:39 PM (f/6aJ)

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I thought that "hard gay" was the term for a particularly kind of character, as epitomized by Hapshiel and Kawasaki:

I didn't know there was a particular character by that name.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 20, 2012 09:42 PM (+rSRq)

4 I think I first ran into that term in some blog's writeup of ep 5 of Macademi Wasshoi.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 20, 2012 09:52 PM (+rSRq)

5 He's famous enough that you see knock-offs of his character pop up in anime.  There's one in the background of episode 12 (broadcast) of Haruhi Suzumiya   He's posing in the hallway during the school festival IIRC.

Posted by: ubu at January 21, 2012 07:59 AM (GfCSm)

6 Now that you mention it, I do remember seeing cartoon versions of him. Damned if I can remember where, though.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 21, 2012 10:50 AM (+rSRq)

7 I know where it was. It was in a flash game I downloaded.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at January 21, 2012 12:59 PM (+rSRq)

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