is star wars gay?

[Jake from Memphis]

If being a "grown up" means no talking about comics or Star Wars or anything to do with pop culture because the guy with the record player likes to judge, count me out.  I think the Snobs of Tom posters are the more annoying part of the community than the moron trying to get a rise out of people.

Let me clarify...I would never tell anyone to grow up, but there is plenty of nerd-dom beyond star wars which has been done to death. 

[daveB from Oakland]

Star Wars is bi-curious.

[emdasher]

Pretty much agreed with Tom's sentiments on this matter.  We're not children.  Enough is enough.  Who cares about Star Wars anymore?

Yes--the question Raad_Man should really be asking here is: "Is Infinite Jest gay?"

[Stupornaut]

If being a "grown up" means no talking about comics or Star Wars or anything to do with pop culture because the guy with the record player likes to judge, count me out.  I think the Snobs of Tom posters are the more annoying part of the community than the moron trying to get a rise out of people.

Let me clarify...I would never tell anyone to grow up, but there is plenty of nerd-dom beyond star wars which has been done to death. 

Are you stating that Star Wars has been done to death (true) or that the nerd-dom beyond it has also been done to death (also true)?

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

[hugman]

HA! That's what I thought of, too!  Course, I was a busboy at a Po Folks in St. Louis when I was a teen. My mom, who has never been into the whole brevity thing, always referred to it as "Poor Folks".

[Fido]

I don't know if this is to be taken seriously. I don't think so.

The "gay" thing seems consistent with what Jason has characterized as right-wind metalhead schtick. It doesn't make me laugh.

Unfortunately, I still react to posts like this, and I would hope that others would find it at least somewhat problematic. Usually, no one seems to particularly give a shit.

Try replacing the word "gay" in the above sentence with "black" or "negroid" or "Jewish," and see how it reads. Or try an even more inflammatory word with a similar meaning.

Good day.

okay, i'll try...   

is star wars Jewish? 

some things about star wars are cool like lightsabers and guns that shoot lasers.

other things are really Jewish like ewoks and princess laya. 

i really don't know if i like star wars or if it is Jewish.



i don't know man... still seems pretty funny to me.  i guess i'm a bad person.

Yeah, I guess you're right, and it's still hilarious and perfectly ok to either malign gay people or characterize anything that you think is hokey or cheesy as "gay."

I get that you're doing a "character," raadman. The thing is, that character is someone straight out of my junior high school... 25 years ago. And not funny.

[Raad_Man]

i guess we have found the answer... no, it is not uncool.  i have a lot of good memories of those movies and my mom even keeps a box of my childhood star wars toys because they remind her of when i was a kid.  i guess that is all that's really important.  some of the best bands ever aren't as good as they were way back when, but that shouldn't make it any less cool to like the old stuff.  if anything it only makes me value the old stuff even more.

[Matt C]

I think Star Wars has a good chance of being good again once Lucas finally leaves this mortal coil, it's his hands that screw it all up.  I don't know if anyone ever played the game Knights Of The Old Republic, that was a great Star Wars story based on the idea of the Jedi as samurai that took place 4000 years before the films.  It's still just science fiction, and can be really good, it's just that the talented people who designed and built the world have all been brushed aside by Lucas' ego and control.  And no, I don't own a stormtrooper costume.

[Regular Joe]

Schtick or not, at least one bit of truth came out of this thread.

[Jake from Memphis]

If being a "grown up" means no talking about comics or Star Wars or anything to do with pop culture because the guy with the record player likes to judge, count me out.  I think the Snobs of Tom posters are the more annoying part of the community than the moron trying to get a rise out of people.

Let me clarify...I would never tell anyone to grow up, but there is plenty of nerd-dom beyond star wars which has been done to death. 

Are you stating that Star Wars has been done to death (true) or that the nerd-dom beyond it has also been done to death (also true)?

Yes I noticed my hazy grammar as well.  I am aying Star Wars has been done to death

[iAmBaronVonTito]

im saying Raad_Man has been done to death.

[Pat K]

Star Wars is bi-curious.

Winner of thread.

[Phantom Hugger]

what a successful troll raddman is.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]