“The question is so absurd, so insipid, and so silly that I’m loathe to even bother answering it. The answer, of course, is no. There are plenty of heterosexual men who own and use Macs. These folks come from all walks of life and all cultural backgrounds,” Jim Lynch writes for ExtremeTech.
“If you do a Google search for “famous mac users” you’ll even find that there are even quite a few famous heterosexual men and women that use Macs. You know that Macs have across-the-board appeal when you have [both] Al Gore [and] Rush Limbaugh… using them,” Lynch writes. “So where did this silly idea about Macs take root? Where did Goofball IT Drone get this from?”
“I think it has to do with the fact that Macs and other Apple products have traditionally looked much better and been far more reliable than their crappy Windows counterparts. And, for IT drones like Goofball IT Drone, this idea is very offensive and cannot be tolerated,” Lynch writes. “But I guess you can’t blame them too much for being so ignorant, if all you ever used was Windows then how would you know how incredibly wimpy it is?”
“And just what exactly do these IT drones do all day with their Windows computers? When they aren’t busy downloading porn (or ‘checking the firewall’ as they call it) they spend most of their time trying to keep their Windows machines clean of viruses and spyware. Gotta run that spyware/malware/virus application every ten minutes or your uber-tough, macho Windows box will be brought to its knees in a matter of minutes,” Lynch writes. “Wow. When you step back and look at it, you really can see the inherent manliness of Windows.”
“Goofball IT Drone is conflating masculinity (or his perception of the lack thereof) with computer hardware. Many people who oppose 2nd amendment civil rights also conflate masculinity with guns in a twisted way. Usually you can identify these folks when they say things like ‘gun owners own guns because they have small penises’ and that sort of nasty, dehumanizing rhetoric. Goofball IT Drone doesn’t like it when the gun grabbers say things like that and neither do I as I’m a gun owner too,” Lynch writes.
Lynch writes, “But anti-Mac-bigots like Goofball IT Drone do essentially the same thing in reverse. They demonize Macs (and thus all Mac owners) by projecting their own internal perception of Mac computers as being ‘feminine’ outward onto everybody else. In the end anti-Mac-bigots and gun grabbers are essentially the same kind of people, they dislike an inanimate object and attempt to ridicule and mock it because they either fear it outright or just dislike it. And worse, they attempt to dehumanize the people who own the objects they dislike by referring to them in a condescending, contemptuous way.”
There’s much more in the full article here.
Hoo, boy. The “gay” wasn’t enough, Lynch needed guns, too? We have a great idea: Let’s have a bachelor party with chicks and guns and fire trucks and hookers and drugs and booze!
Booooozzzzeeeeee!!!
Perhaps we Mac users are simply the type to take being called “gay” as a compliment. I’m not gay, but I often wish I were.
wow… Just wow.
Come on MDN this crap should not have been posted.
Are all Windoze users mongoloid, or do they just behave that way?
Well, obviously TowerTone is gay, so …
clearly Bill Gates is the personification of well hung manliness.
He’s leaving Microsoft to go into action movies.
I’d add if anyone is interested in Porn (i.e. mostly heterosexual males) the mac is their best bet – plenty of excellent media apps, and low risk of catching a virus.
No, please, no: sex everywhere. I hate Macsex & Macdailysex.
I am gay! as in I am happy & gay…..Time was when you were described as being a gay person meant that you were a happy person.
Mac users are a happy lot!!! So by default they are gay!!!
PC user are a grey lot! comes from the constant worrying caused by a unstable OS.
Would you rather be GAY or GREY?
Im sure that while the majority of gays prefer mac, not there’s anything wrong with that, the majority of Mac users is most certainly straight. When I think if all the folks I know that use Macs I can only think of a only few that are, or seem, gay.
MDN, you have published a ton of stupid articles in the past, but this has to be the worst. By the way, I am a Mac user, and a “gun grabber”.
Ahem………Drink Camel’s Milk, you will quickly realize that we all have two arse holes…….One for farting through! The other PC users who gripe about Mac users!!!!!
I’m gay. Is anyone looking for a date? I blow well.
The gay Mac thing is an American (and maybe UK) thing.
Here in Europe they don’t make those comments.
Here in Holland they think you have a lot of money if you have an iMac.
Same here in Germany. Nobody would even think of such a theme. Fortunately, many of us can afford Apple products. Becoming more and more. The more, the merrier. Or “the more, the gayier” 😉
I also like to wear women’s underware so…
I was a happy and *very* active heterosexual man and purchased my first PowerBook 5 years ago. Shortly there after I bought several pairs of shoes (weekend, work, and deck. I am now gay gay gay and will never go back. Thank you Steve Jobs, I want to take a bite out of your apple.
This is a great question. Actor John Wayne was one of the first Mac customers way back in 1984 and everybody knows he was gay. Idaho Senator Larry Craig clearly isn’t gay and he doesn’t use a Mac.
That should answer the question.
Mac users are gay…as in happy. Happy that we are not using WinDOH!s…
MW=mass…as in I got mass off Windows ASAP…
Next to comment this no-news is a little Ballmer
I’m gay, but I have many straight male friends who own Macs. It just took them a long time to come around.
Omfg, no you didn’t.
BobM, you’re a little gay Ballmer
This has to be the most irrelevant post ever to appear on this website.
This article is DEAD ON. People who hate inanimate objects will go to great lengths to ridicule people who use said objects. They will project until time’s end about how “THOSE people are X or Y or Z” with nothing but their own biases and irrational hatreds to back it up. Often, the people who feel such a strong need to hate and deny the freedom of others have deep-rooted psychological issues.
For the gun-grabbers, it’s the inability to trust.
For the IT drone, it’s the fear of losing his job.
For the Muslim, it’s just freedom.
The question is so absurd, so insipid, and so silly that I’m loathe to even bother answering it.
I mean really, if someone actually asked the question, then he could be loathe about it, but nobody asked it. The author presented the question in his headline and didn’t say that anyone actually asked it, so why would he need to answer a question that doesn’t exist, unless you make up the question yourself for the sake of being disgusted by it. Am I missing something?
How scared are PC Guys getting. MAC USERS ARE FAGS or WOMEN?? Going along that line of thought all PC Users Pull SNOT from their noses and eat it. Tiger makes VISTA look like a popcorn fart. Leopard is an order of magnitude better than TIGER. Might as well cal Vista, ME 2.
Apple = Better Hardware, Software, User Experience, Security etc.
Microsoft = F*** You Gimmy your money!
BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots is gay and he uses a Mac too, just like Mary Cheney and Senator Larry Craig.
Keep fighting for freedom, BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots. We’re behind you all the way, just like your lover.
Hum. I think that idea came from the fact that Gay people are usually around gorgeous things. The nice house, the nice clothes, the nice car… The nice computer = a mac.
This is the stupidest post I’ve ever seen on this site. Seriously. You’ve got to be kidding me.
So what does it mean if I hate inanimate PCs?r
I’m very, very gay and I am a Mac user.
In my experience gay men and women tend to be smarter than the average neanderthal straight men. Since intelligent people are more likely to use a Mac, a larger percentage of gay men than straight men are likely to be Mac users. However, if you compare them as just total numbers and not weighted percentages, there are certainly more straight men who use Macs than gay men since gay people only make up 10% of the population.
I’m a European heterosexual alien living in France who discovered the only valuable consumer product on this strange planet….an iMAC….Is this good stuff for another bs article written by some “journalist” who has nothing else to do? Gay, yellow, hetero, black, fat, white, thin, green, …who cares?
I have at least a dozen Macs so, I guess I must be really gay.
I think that in the early days the majority of people using Macs were creative types that were in the graphic and music profession so just because you have god forbid a little flair or personality you are typecast as being a homosexual.
I have no issues with gay people but , if they happen to choose a better computer than the rest of the sheep out there more power to them.
Lets stop the witch hunt you IT (Insecure & Terrified) guys.
Hey Sailor! Ready to go ashore?
This is so stupid I shouldn’t even comment it.
If fact, I’ll just state it’s plain stupid.
I’m an heterosexual, and I love my Mac. My brother is heretosexual too and loves his Mac. I have a friend who is gay and also loves his Mac. What’s the difference? We ALL love the Mac because it’s an awesome product.
(I was going to say “You know what would be REALLY gay? A pink Zune!”, but I don’t want to offend all the smart gay people I know)
To qjkqqq:
Being called gay is not a compliment you idiot.
MDN: there must be a better story to post on a Friday afternoon.
For some, it sure is! ….
Goofball IT Drone got it wrong. It’s only all Republicans that are gay, closeted yes but gay just the same.
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Wow! It never even crossed my mind that using a Mac was gay?!?
Having thought about it, perhaps the traditional association with graphic arts, has this ignoramus comingling Mac users with gays. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if more gays used Macs, though Dell is now offering laptops in cute colors, not Apple.
“There’s a good lad, just throw another faggot on the fire”.
Always note what gay guys are doing, we have the money and we shop smart! So of course we buy apple computers, gays guys are smarter and know a good deal when they see one.
(this is typed from my mac pro book on wireless internet, in the public wash room while tapping my foot)
gay or not, i think this author needs apple to start making ‘genitalia drives’ to place inside the mac so you can make sweet love to apple all day.
I think the deciding factor in the Mac vs. PC debate is not your sexual preference, but your intelligence level.
If you’ve got an ounce of sense, you’ll quickly grasp that you get what you pay for (no prostitution pun intended).
Mac users get that…PC users may NEVER get it.
Peace.
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Olmecmystic
Slow day?
I think mac geeks are hot (well most of them!)
“I think that in the early days the majority of people using Macs were creative types that were in the graphic and music profession so just because you have god forbid a little flair or personality you are typecast as being a homosexual.”
please stop spreading the myth that straight men have personalities…..
That people use “gay” as an insult is precisely why I absolutely despise that “X is so gay” saying that people have been using. And those people have the nerve to claim it has nothing to do with gay people. Bullshite.
Even after reading the article, as well-intended as it seems to be, I’m still miffed. There’s an implicit “gay = effiminate = unmanly” bias through the whole thing. I have gay friends who could intimidate the crap out of a Hell’s Angel, and others who have a bolt of chiffon drop out of their mouths when they speak. Whoop-de-freakin’-do. I love my friends either way. I kinda fall in the middle, just a regular guy who happens to be gay, like most of the guys I know.
IMO, the only response to this “Goofball IT Drone” person is, “You’re an asshat.” But maybe he’ll read the article and be embarassed when he recognizes himself in it. And maybe, other people who think the same or similar things will be a little embarrassed, too.
Meh. So is Conservative GOP Congressmen.
You know what, I hear George W. sure likes his iPod….
That would explain Jeff Gannon.
“please stop spreading the myth that straight men have personalities…..”
LMFAO! ! !
(I usually lease mine. It’s cheaper.)
PC’S ARE FOR FART-HUFFERS AND MACS GET YOU LAID!!!!
Gaygaygaygaygay.
Gay.
The end.
qjkqqq – you probably wish you were straight also.
We’re all METROSEXUALS now! (And we’re totally not gay. Not at all. Really.)
Happy Mac owner, Happy gun owner. Happy fag here as well. I prefer to be defined by my Macs and guns though. They are such a more prevalent part of me than being gay…..
I’m gay….about my beautiful new glossy iMac that is!
Now if my wife and kids would stop hogging the thing. I told them they can go play with my gun collection instead.
It’s a known fact that all men are really deep down lezbians
What — no “cross-platform” jokes?
The MDN crowd is slipping. Must be ’cause it’s Friday.
You guys better be careful or someone’s going to lose an eye.
And remember, Dick in a Box is still an appropriate gift no matter which way your rope swings.
What — no “cross-platform” jokes?
The MDN peanut gallery is slipping. Must be ’cause it’s Friday or something…
More and more of my gay friends are switching….to a Mac…if they haven’t already been using one for years. As for me, I LOVE my gay, Mac Mini! And yes, it does hold a lot of man-on-man porn.
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you’ve got to be kidding me!
This article is funny. People on this site are soooooo uptight about their macs, it makes me laugh.
All you Mac users need to give it a rest. There are PC users and there are MAC users.
If I misread this thread and all of you are just having fun poking (no pun intended) at PC users then OK. But if not, give it a rest, live life and have fun.
P.S. Microsoft RULES!
P.P.S. – LOL , have fun already!
Hey, Jim Lynch! Brush your breath. It smells like my ass and my dick.
wow, I’m gay, and a gun owner, and a long time mac user, what does that mean?
Both John Kerry and George W. Bush are Mac users…I too am a Mac user and I know I’m not gay and pretty sure Kerry and Bush aren’t either
What a bunch of whiners and crybabies that responded to that article. The inherent insecurity of the Windows users (and to a lesser extent Linux users) was just hilarious.
Only the good ones…
Not only are there male heterosexual Mac users, there are also conservative Republican Mac users.
as far as I can tell
your a gay, gun toting, apple fan. who likes to use the word wow.
I always knew you Maccers were fags having your roots in San Francisco *yuck*, I am not gonna touch an iMac, I might get AIDS.
I have both Windows and Macs. Does that make me eligible to enter from both the front and back doors?
Real men use computers that are hard to use and need constant maintenance. Why, back in the day CP/M was good enough for everyone, and we were all better for it! Struggle builds character.
Check the court records. Whenever someone is prosecuted as a rapist, a pedophile or a child pornographer, that person is invariably a Windows user, and the computer seized is a Gateway, Dell or other Windows-based machine.
Do Chinese women have sideways vaginas?
Seriously though, I don’t get this. Is this guy referencing an article written by someone else? I’m not sure who made the original comment that got the author so worked up. Who is IT Goofball Drone? Or did the author of this article just make up some strawman argument in order to knock it down? Because I’ve never heard anyone say this before.
No. But only because not all straight guys are tasteless and ignorant.
Wow, straight people use Macs? In that case, welcome heterosexual Mac users. I won’t discriminate.
Apply has actively recruited homosexual users since the introduction of OS X and that spinning rainbow pinwheel or beach ball. Not THAT is gay.
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I’m a heterosexual, happily married..I have two Mac’s, a Apple TV, a iPhone, three iPods…and I’m not gay, and just for the record, I have nothing against gay men or women. Live and Let Be.
Such reporting is outright stupid and unfounded.
What was the point of this article in the first place?
to : Not a Gobbler
You might not gobble, but you certainly Suck.
Hahahaha what ?
If Windows truly has such a large market share…
them ummmm there are more of these people using PCs.
this is the downpoint of mdn. how can you ever think about posting something like this. are yopu nuts?
this is the downpoint of mdn. how can you ever think about posting something like this. are you nuts?
What kind of F**K**g questions is that. So I suppose a st8t CEO like Jobs will run a company that makes electronics and software for Gay people.
Maybe for gay people in the happy definition for having a rock solid machine.
Hmmm… he has a point.
After one spectacularly expensive breakup, I did wonder if women weren’t just too pricey, and maybe I should be gay instead. Just one problem: I didn’t fancy blokes.
However, if by ‘gay’ you mean people with reasonable taste and a modicum of style, then sure: I’m gay.
Check out Sitges, Spain. Oh-so-stylish. Also gay. QED.
I am heterosexual.
My nephew is homosexual.
I turned him from his path of degredation, humiliation and despair-I gave him an iMac for graduation.
Now he is free to enjoy his computing experience, whatever it may be.
This just in…many IT guys don’t like Macs….
Gay.
No, WOMEN!
Mmm, do I have to choose?
All my macs are feminine. Excepting the g5, which though still feminine, has firm and tight curves; must be a volleyball player. All i know is i like to slowly stroke their sensuous glossy screens.
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I’m gay, but still find this hilariously absurd.
I’m 20% gay.
I’m not saying which 20%, though…
All my gay friends use PC’s … my straight friends are about an 80/20 mix Mac/PC’s
MDN – Nice use of the “Bachelor Party” line. One of my all-time faves…
It would be hard to test.
The ports on computers are way too small. For most people.
Why glorify this by reposting it!!!!????
Wow. How vapid have we become? Squillions of dollars worth of internet infrastructure so that we can carry on about this sort of inane tripe? And so that I can reply to it?!?
Imagine if we could raise the level of discourse to a point where just 1% of what we blather on about could actually make a difference in someone’s real life. Just 1%. That would be so … “cool”.
@2Shae
“The gay Mac thing is an American (and maybe UK) thing.”
I hate to mess with your interesting theory 2Shae but here in Great Britain PC users just talk bollocks when they talk about Macs and Mac users. Things like “Macs are for arty farty types” or “Nobody uses Macs” or “But there’s hardly any software for Macs” and the classic “Why don’t you buy a REAL computer”.
My favourite retorte is “You don’t know how ridiculous you sound!” doing my best Hugh Grant impression.
However there’s NO mention of “but don’t GAYS use Macs”
sorry mate…
If mac owner = gay. I’m gay.
PC Users are Masochists and PC IT staff are Sadists.
As a gay man I found this very amusing, and ironic too as the article had an ad for an 8-core Mac Pro, and at the moment I’m migrating all of my queer files from a Power Mac to my brand new 8-core Mac Pro.
Hey, I own a mac and I’m not a woman. Nor do I own a gun. And I’m definately not ga…. Oh. Ooops. Well 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
I’m back and found this on you tube while waiting for someone to tap their foot back, quiet night 🙁
That’s just silly. Women don’t use Macs.
This “Apple Mac users are gay” stereotype is getting as bad as “Toyota Prius owners are left-wing nutjobs”.
Apple had better get going with some image control. Fast.
Apple needs purple Macs much as Toyota needs standard “Impeach Bush” bumper stickers.
The moderator of MDN is a republican, so he must be gay. Otherwise, why put up this stupid story?
All republicans are closeted gay people.
Does a little experimenting in college count?
Oh, and did she have to be human?
Um, and have a pulse?
Never mind.
All Democrats are bigots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigot
Does a little experimenting in college count?
Oh, and did she have to be human?
Um, and have a pulse?
Never mind.
Im gay – tis true.
You bet yer sweet ass it is.
Congratulations _!_?_…good job
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Oops. Sorry about the double fisted posting. I got a little excited.
republicans are fags, pretty obvious, just look at congress and MDN, they are everywhere posing as someone other then themselves
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If Apple gets labeled as a faggot’s icon, I’m gone.
Better to put up with Windows and the shit from Redmond, than to use a symbol of a lifestyle you reject.
Well, I am not gay but really I hope that all women and gay men buy Macs, that would mean the M$ monopoly days are over.
Actually, republicans are closeted gay people and democrats have no problem being gay.
That’s about the only difference in political persuasion. They are both hypocrites. It doesn’t matter, vote for Pee Wee for president.
Censored again!
So much for being safe for work. Moving along . . .
Totally gay.
Except for the fact that I’m straight.
And most mac stores employees are gay too. And cute!!!
MMMMMMMM
Gay macs rules!!!
Wooh!
This site is notorious for Mac bashing. I can remember reading some of their crap in the late 90(?) and they had stories that foamed at the mouth with Mac hate.
I’m not gay but I still love the rainbow logo. Lighten up, people.
I predict this will go to five pages. any takers?
queer mac for the straight guy anyone?
Whoever the fuck came up with this notion can suck my dick.
Just kidding. Straight and happy on this Earth, but all the respect in the world for my fellow humans that happen to be gay or lesbian.
Sorry, guns and Macs don’t mix:
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With 90% market share worldwide, i believe the total of gay Windows users easily outnumbered ALL Mac users combined.
Sorry I am so late coming to the post.
Been working my corner down on Harry Hines and Inwood….
So let me get this straight….Al Gore isn’t gay?
And, no Frank, I am not gay.
But thank God my boyfriend is!
( ! )
>->
and so on…..
TT
Well I am on my second deployment to Iraq….the first time around I was the only one in my company who owned a mac, this time on my second time to Iraq I am one of six in my Platoon that is using a mac…I have know idea how many in my company are using one, but it is more than the six in my platoon I know for sure. You can make all the gay jokes about the military you want but the whole world knows that Marines are proud heterosexual men.
Just remember the Rainbow Apple logo. So close to the Rainbow flag. Maybe it could explain this belief !
The truth is that gay guys are on the macs, fags are on pcs.
So it’s come to this.
They tried to say that they had the more advanced platform. OSX killed that arguement.
They tried to say that they had the more secure platform. 100,000 viruses killed that arguement.
They tried to say that there’s was the most popular platform. Apple 17% market share in laptops and rising market share generally killed that arguement.
They tried to say that WMV was the future, iTunes killed that arguement.
They tried to say that the iPhone was a flop, sales numbers killed that arguement.
They tried to say that Steve Jobs was a criminal – exonerated.
They tried to say that the Mac was just as insecure as Windows. Various ‘experts’ are proved wrong every day.
They tried to say that Vista would solve all your problems – Dell are selling PC’s with XP, Vista’s so bad.
They tried to say that Mac on the PC network would cause support problems.
Need I go on?
At every turn the Mac platform is winning every argument and is gaining on Windows.
Windows supporters know this so they turn to throwing insults at us.
This is it people, we’re finally seeing the Redmond foundations starting to crumble. 5 more years and it’s all over.
What? Heteros also use Macs? Don´t believie it! Admit that you all are at least BI. =)
This is rediculous. They can´t find anything else to talk about so they have to invent something.
Every time when there is a Wintoy guy in our company they say that Macs aren´t for the business. Then we show them that yes they most certainly are. Then they say that well you can´t play games with them. Then I say that well these machines are for the business and they are not toys. If we wan´t to play games we buy a game console and it is not Xbox.
Macs get you laid. You just have to pick the right one for you.
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In which case, one of my customer sites – a toy and game manufacturer – is slowly becoming bisexual because I’m migrating them over to the Mac platform by using Parallels running on 20″ iMac units.
It goes to show how stupid the average IT function can be: if one of my customer’s virtual machines becomes compromised, it can be thrown in the Trash and restored from a “freeze-dried” production-ready (all 110 security updates + all applications) copy in about ten minutes.
On Windows, unless you’ve Ghosted each machine or invested in a product like Altiris (now sadly owned by Symantec – watch that go downhill), you’re into a bare-metal rebuild which could take you several hours. And bear in mind the conventional wisdom that you should rebuild your WinDell system at least every twelve months.
Now if it is an affirmation of one’s masculinity to spend two working weeks every year rebuilding the average PC estate (which is about 18 seats here in the UK – double these figures for the US), then I’m going to start listening to showtunes and start wearing a feather boa.
When I opened this page I got ad from the RealJock?!
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Did MDN fix it? I did not know that there was such a site. Now it is in my bookmarks. Cool site must I say. There is even a man of the day. Yummy
What a total load of discrimination.
He completely left out the lesbians or do all women fall under that category – at least a little? I sure hope so.
—
TT – I got your Dallas joke.
He is only such a chicken. He knows that lesbians hits hard where it hurts.
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Is Mac butch thing? Mac Pro maybe?
Drunk Cheney-
I prefer to call it “The Big ‘D”…..
OK, enough of that.
I am not gay, but I have this habit when I am my mac is to stick 2 fingers up my asshole just like a porno. It really works good no that I can see myself in my new glass screen iMac. I thrust in and out while dripping with Vaseline. juices.
I love my Mac-N-Puss.
Unfortunately, Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs and board member Algore are flaming leftists and climate alarmists, but that hasn’t stopped this puss-loving dude from buying Macs.
P.S. Algore is the most dangerous threat to America today. His global warming hoax could wreck our economy and way of life if Congress enacts legislation that foolishly attempts to undo temperature changes brought about by the Sun!!!
God made Gays so the truly creative and talented wouldn’t be burdened by children.
Gays don’t make Gays; straight people are the ones creating gays. To stop gays, you’d have to keep all of the straight people from breeding.
God doesn’t make mistakes.
I used to be in love with my bike after I painted stars on it …but I fell out of love. Later, I got a Yamaha motorcycle. It was black and sexy and I fell in love, again …and I used to be in love with this certain person until I found out this certain person was loving a large group of people …but during all that time I never fell out of love with my Mac because it always loved me unconditionally whereas I’ve never been loved by a PC …the PC always wanted something ..always, always, always wanting something. So, one day the PC and I were having a fight and I guess I pushed a little too hard or something and the PC hit its head or something and couldn’t wake up or something ..so I put the PC in my trunk and drove off into the dark night or something. After all that my Mac still loves me.
Often I read things that make me hang my head and slowly shake it in dispair for the human race. This is a non story. When a moron equates the use of a product with a person’s sexuality, it only proves he or she is a moron and reasonable people should ignore them.
Busting Skulls – How many Muslims do you know? Because a moron says repeatedly that all Muslims hate us because of our freedom and way of life does not make it true. It just proves HE is a moron.
Look as a straight male, I don’t mind paying a premium, or having to buy a new operating system and desktop every three years….but I’m drawing the line right here.
“Because a moron says repeatedly that all Muslims hate us because of our freedom and way of life does not make it true. It just proves HE is a moron.”
I am just being bi(religious)-curious, but any particular moron?
IdrawTHEline. The Leopard is cumming
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I’m so sick of the whole gay propoganda thing I could puke! Enough already!
Everyone knows male Mac users are totally gay or latent homosexuals.
So if you’re Mac user who hasn’t yet admitted yet that you’re Gay, go out his weekend, find a nice bathroom stall in Minneapolis airport and get a good hard rogering from behind, come out of the closet and and continue to “Think Different”.
But stop pretending that you’re not Gay. Nobody believes you.
When this story appeared here a couple days ago, I read it, read some of the comments, and thought – how cute. A unique new way to compare Mac -v- PC. And the posters will have a field day with the jokes and hyperbole (which you are, not that there’s anything wrong with that).
Well, today at our local youth soccer games where I’m one of the Adult Referee Supervisors responsible for many High School age Refs who are doing the kid’s games, I had to check something and pulled out my iPhone (no, that’s not an innuedo for some other activity, so sorry, please Sen. Craig just move along to the next stall).
One of those High School age Refs, a bit of a punk, but basically a good kid, saw the iPhone said, “Oh, an iPhone, how gay.”
And I asked him, “Really? How is this gay?”
“Only a gay guy would spend $600 on a phone.”
“Well, I only spent $400, since I waited till the price went down. Does that mean I’m only 2/3 gay?”
No anwser, but did get him laughing.
Now, I’ve known this kid since he was 11 or 12, and been a surrogate father figure to him and many of the other fine young men we mentor and help develop, not only as a Soccer Referee but also life in general.
I know he knows I’m not gay (which I’m not, sorry again, so just keep moving along to that next stall, please), but I took the opportunity to quiz him some about Apple, Mac and his perceptions and observations of who uses what computers and why.
His answers were typical of the average American caught in the “Stockholm Syndrome” which is often discussed on this site.
But I did gain a new insight, which could be valid, and would give meaning to the reason we’re here discussing Macs and Gays.
Of course we all know a person is not gay because they use Mac.
But we also know if you use Mac, you’re in a minority.
And most folks hate not being in the majority. That’s not rationale, but is the nature of our culture, and could be wired into our genes.
We consider it normal and desirable to be ‘in’ with the ‘popular’ kids in school. To know what is hip, hot and kewl. We like being accepted and part of THE group.
That’s difficult if you’re in a minority. Or use a minority product.
And since gays are a minority – any minority activity, or use of a minority product, then becomes an easy target as a metaphoric icon. And the subject of ridicule for the weak seeking an edge. Or some high school punk-wannabe trying to be funny.
Someone above posted a comment that suggested Apple find a way to market in a more “masculine” fashion. There could be some truth in that.
Perhaps the new “Mac Guy” could drive a pick-up truck, scratch his ass, fart, belch, and pick his teeth in public. Or show him sitting on his couch drinking beer while watching ‘restling on tv.
THAT would give us instant credibility as ‘Real Men’ in our current culture.
Or, Grasshopper, we could just keep doing what we’re doing, and know that things are not always as they appear.
Thank You
BC Kelly
Tallahassee Fla
You now have to accept that you’re as Gay as they come.
Especially after writing that long post trying to defend your “heterosexuality”.
Are all PC owners mentally handicapped?
Does God send you to hell for stupidity?
I’m gay, and I live with my best friends: another gay guy and a lesbian… We all have macs – so maybe there is something to this story after all?
j/k… seriously though – this guy is a dumbass.
BC Kelly: Interesting post. Thanks.
“Does God send you to hell for stupidity?”
You among us will be one who gets to find out.
And Yes, according to the dogma of the Catholic Church, if you’re too mentally handicapped to accept Jesus as your saviour, you go straight to hell.
Sorry tt. Have a warm afterlife.
Let’s see…….I own two Macs and two iPods, drive a Saab (another supposedly gay symbol), am a card-carrying NRA member with too many guns to count, and listen to Rush. I guess my wife, son, and grandson would want to know what that all means.
“I guess my wife, son, and grandson would want to know what that all means.”
It means you’re gay.
If you are Zune Tang.
What a dumb post, but hey, I’ll break it down for you.
Scenario #1 – PC guys.
They all get together and try to fix a PC/Server problem. They may spend all night “working it out.” This is generally a group of 2 or more males.
Scenario #2 – Mac guys
Mac guy convinces his woman to **** while the iSight records it. He then adds 70’s music to it and is an instant porn star attracting the ladies.
Ok… so, scenario #1 == orgy with all men == gay
Scenario #2 == (Man==stud==****ing woman on camera)
MDN… just for your post of this article, I am now removing your link from my bookmarks. Don’t try to explain why you put it there…. it is childish and wreaks of trying to get attention for your site.
Buh Bye!!!
Well, after all these years now I know, I’m gay. Thank you all for helping me see the light. This will work out great too, ’cause I can ask my wife to “help” me with my “therapy”. Cool!
Fags. I’ve used all kinds of computers for many, many years (IT geek, gun owner, also prefer Macs). See if I sound like a fag.
Touchy-feely freaks are going to be the downfall of this once-great nation. Multi-culturalism, ACLU, and all that P.C. crap is only defending the destroyers of this nation that gave you your freedoms. You were better off when you kept your dirty little secrets in the closet. Wahabbi’ism wants to cut off your pathetic little fag balls before they cut your fag heads off. And you just want to “understand” why these people hate “us”. It’s what you represent that they hate, not “us”. They hate the decadence, perversion, and weakness the west started portraying when the whole PC thing took hold.
A fag-fry. They should call SF “sin-city”, not Vegas. One 20-megaton nuke popped right over Alcatraz or Treasure Island should take care of both SF and Berkeley at the same time. No loss (sorry Raider fans, you’re still rebuilding anyway).
I could go on about slackers like panhandlers (arrest them), illegal aliens (barb wire and guns across the border, shoot if they cross other than official crossings), and others who won’t take responsibility for getting out of their own frickin situations. If you’re a non-fag American, be proud, work, and fight the P.C. crap invading your lives. You fags, just infect each other and die already. Or whimper when Mahommad comes to cut ya, maybe he’ll make it quicker.
It makes you feel better about your perverted selves if you think normal people have a deficiency for not liking fags. Wake up, you’re the freaks, not normal folks. The world shouldn’t change to accomodate you, but unfortuneately that’s what’s been happening. You think you’re smarter than straights (or breeders, if you prefer). You think this as you stick your cock up your buddies ass. Hey assholes–ONE WAY, DO NOT ENTER. Why don’t you just put a sharp stick in your eye. Go figure.
I’ve got more respect for my cat named “Brave” than all you fags combined. That’s what you name a cat that doesn’t flinch when you cycle your weapon after cleaning it. Gotta go, I hear Hank Jr playing.
MW= “book”, as in the good one.
Do all Trolls stoop because they take it in the Gary Glitter so much?
“Well, after all these years now I know, I’m gay.”
That should have been obvious to you. Only a Gay guy in denial would feel the need to go around saying “I do all these Gay things, but I’m not Gay because…”. I understand from what you’re saying that you probably got married to convince yourself that you were straight. By now your wife already probably knows that.
Clearly a Gay guy trying to convince himself that he’s a redneck.
@NorCal country boy
LOL. At least we now know Fred Phelps reads MDN
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Was there a point to this article? I don’t get it?
stfu
If I gotta be gay to use a Mac so be it… I still think all PC (windoze) users are fucking stupid.
I’m not Gay! Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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errr…this is stupid
It’s amazing what a completely foolish non-news article can do to generate hits! Way to go MDN********
slowly we will get to five pages of real insightful comments….
Yes, Yes they are!
FSB
such bs. the gays are always trying to capitalize on whatever is popular. they think it will make people see them as normal, as just another segment of society. windoze sucks=fags suck
We have it on good authority that there are no homosexual Mac users in Iran — they have all been shot.
You know the only purpose of this article is to get people spun up…who really cares-
hetrosexual men use macs? give me a break
of all the ppl i know with macs they are all GAY yes GAY
ther is an apple advert for this mac pro comp box ( i call it that) next to the article. i checked the buying site for the 8 core thingy of speeds up to 3ghz and WOW!!!!!!!!! OMGOMGGOMGOMGOGMOGMGOMG $2,499!!!!!!! like my PC (VIAO ON VISTA WOOT) goes at 2.6ghz! and that cost me £300! $600! also, i buy an Xbox 360 Elite, 3 cores going at 3.2ghz EACH!!! thats like almost 10ghz max processing power! for how much? wats that angels of Microsoft? £200?? $400!!!!!!
dont say mac is good
dont say mac is for straights
mac is for demented gays who think their ugly white slab of shit is the best thing in the world OMG! APPLE IPHONE! IPOD, PHONE AND INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE IM GOING TO CUM!!!!!!!!!!! in other words, a phone, an mp3 player and internet browser. i buy a Nokia or Sony Ericsson for less than 40% iPhone price.
whoa Iran’s apple stores must be really empty
Isn’t it sad that human beings, having developed such wonderful brains, very often don’t use them? They just repeat garbage they have been brainwashed into believing.
The vast majority seem quite happy to be brainwashed by their families, or anyone else who spouts rubbish which offers simple and violent answers to everything. Then repeat the same nasty nonsense like it was the truth.
Remember all those people who believed the world would end at the Millennium? Because they were TOLD it was going to end. The witch-doctors are still churning out prophecies – not about the Millennium now though, obviously! If one lie doesn’t work, look up another chapter and spin out some more poo. Anything to keep the collection plate full.
Maybe all the loud mouthed war freaks who go on about their various religious books, should be put together, where they can fight to their hearts content, and let the rest of us get on with life. The middle of the Sahara Desert, I suggest!
After all, the people who like to start wars should be allowed to enjoy them in privacy. As long as it’s nowhere near proper humans of course.
And as for that guy and his 3.2 gig cores… with a genuine 100% dumbo like that, it is hard to know WHERE to start. He probably doesn’t have to work for a living like the rest of us. Macs do the jobs we need to do. End of story. Not all of us have time to play about like little boys in their bedrooms. XBox? What use is that to an adult?
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I worked at a call center for a year and I could always tell when the caller had a Mac before they would tell me because they always sound so gay. The only time I got it wrong is when a Mac user actually got his as a present. Its true: Macs do appeal to homos.
Gays like macs because they look good, because they look good they inspire creativity, thus attracting more homosexuals. Windows XP Pro + Symantec Corporate = Better than Mac. I always love this anti windows argument, “uh, uh, windows get viruses, umm macs don’t” Macs would if more people bought them, yeah im not going to invade switzerland either, it may be nicer than alot of other countries but its not worth the effort. It would be one thing if viruses just couldn’t work on OSX like Linux is designed but no, its just not worth it to make them for. I’ve used Symantec Corporate for 4 years now, 0 viruses. Linux is the future though.
The guy who wrote this review is clearly gay. He must be a mac user.
I’m a mac user, and I’m gay. 76% of us are!
76% of gays are mac users, or 76% of mac users are gay??????
I guess which ” us ” is the question.
buying a mac makes you gay
What does selling a Mac do ??
No – not just gay guys as can be clearly seen from the above posts and in the reaction to satire in the link below the rest of MALE Mac owners are DUMB INDENIAL closet case FAGS!
“THOU DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH” springs to mind for some reason…………
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JixbzFjv_cU&feature=related
ROFLMAO… have you ever seem so many redneck indenial fags buying the same brand (Mac) no wonder they believe all the fact denying Apple FUD; classic eg “it just works”
There seems to be a lot of discourteous talk and mention of Apple users being gay or fags. This not the way to describe a collection of persons who only wish to prove their superiority. I agree in the past that Apple machines were underpowered or over rated. But now this has all changed. Apples run under the same processors and use mainstream components. They are on par with other Intel machines, yet the users scream at the top of their lungs all about the superiority.
No,the Mac crowd is most likely not gay or fag. I think androgynous or hermaphrodite computing individual would be the correct phrase. In that manner, when the Mac or Apple fan boys are proclaiming their superiority, they can literally go fuck themselves.
iam gay and i like me MAC for white colors and System Gay
You people ar absolutely ridiculous. Why don’t you give Windows 7 a try, like the 2% of the internet has already taken the plunge to the pre-release, thats almost half of apples marketshare with full releases, this is a pre-release we’re talking about. On October 22, there will be a gigantic explosion of buying new computers, you’ll see by years end Windows 7 will more than likely already have gained a 10% (only a couple months after its actual release). Why do you think that despite all the hype people still are not getting brainwashed with that good ol apple kool aid? Maybe because they’re happy enough with the Windows. Mac loves to say things like its “more user friendly”, yeah right! With Windows, all I gotta do is press start, and any program I want to use is right there, not so simple with mac tho. How confusing of an obscure layout can you make?
Despite the fact that Mac is based on Unix code (which is lame, I mean, what? You cant even write your own code? You have to recycle code that was made in the 60s? RIDICULOUS), true hackers know that any system can be easilly hacked. It doesn’t matter, take a look at this article for proof from the actual hacker community: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/pwn2own_winner_mac_os_x_is_less_secure_than_windows/
Plus, I needed to say all that “mac is artsy/for artists” bs is just nonsense, for those that are easilly brainwashed. I can do anything I wanted in Windows Photoshop, the exact same stuff I can do on a crapbook’s photoshop. Music? I make music, on my PC, and Cubase makes garage band, look like garbage brand, and logic, well, look ilogical. Sure, Cubase can be used on a mc too. But, that doesn’t matter, the fact of the matter is cubase on mac and Windows is the exact same product, as the same with Photshop.
There just is so much more you can do with a Windows machine, that you could never do with a mac.
And, to address the main topic, in my honest opinion, I trully beleive that most mac users r either gay, or, easilly-brainwashed people. Sorry apple, but we people dont just get brainwashed that easilly, your aggresssive marketing has lead you nowhere, your puny marketshare looks like almost nothing, still. Keep on wasting your money on all that mac vs pc bs garbage, your going nowhere with that, at least the company has the iphone, if it wasnt for that, the company would look completely pitiful. Plus, that mac guy seems a little too “metrosexual” and with that “mantra” garbage, it only enhanced that image.
All the girls Ive ever known own a PC at home, and so, they seem more comfortable seeing I use one to. Macs are just way too confusing for normal people that just want to get things done FAST, just press start, and your ready to go, no wierd maze of, hmm, how do I actually do this, just direct Start, All Programs, giv me the program I need, and Im good to go. Thats one of the main reasons why PCs will always be better then ne mac. I think the most serious threat to Microsoft in fact is the Linuz/OpenSource Community, they eventually will create a more user friendly OS, and since it’s FREE, it is a HUGE threat to Microsoft. But, as long as Microsoft keeps on investing billions of its proffits into R&D;, they still can keep a strong marketshare, almost indeffinately. I bet you our great grandchildren will be using Windows 2070, and will be reading in there history books of an OS that was discontinued in the 30s, its name was… mac
Sorry for the bad spelling and grammar, Im sleepy, and I only use proper spellin n grammar wen in a proffesional environment, and, at the least, wouldve had better grammar if I wasnt so sleepy.
Furthermore, check this link for more info on the pitiful security inside of macs:
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/business/appleaday/blog/2009/03/more_from_pwn2own_winner_charl.html
i only have a mac because it’s necessary for my school.
and i agree, MAC is gay.
Some male mac users CLAM to be strait. Lets get real.
lol Mac. Seriously, if I want to edit video, I’ll use Mac, but for everything else, I’ll use Windows. There’s a reason half the world uses Windows.
This macfag is funny, reason why most viruses are develop on windows because most of the world doesn’t use macs. The OS is so shitty, there are more software and especially games develop on Linux than macs.
Most if not all, macfags don’t even know how shitty their fanny-macs are, probably can’t distinguish the difference between a kilobyte and a bit.
Most of them are just mainstream fags who just follow what other dumbasses think are awesome. For example, Iphone fags and most claim it’s the best phone and revolutionary, if they even take a look at the specs, or read reviews (by non mainstream dick suckers) that it’s not the best fucking phone especially that the reception is not as good as other phones on their tier. And for being revolutionary, well yes it’s the first phone like that to be release on the US MARKET. So phones like that have been around since ’06.
All the homosexual or closet homosexuals who are hostile I knew on another site. It turns out most of them will own a mac or actually owns a mac. It’s weird, but most homosexuals in their lifetime will actually get a mac. I mean they are right brained like women and can’t use a logical left brained pc like windows.
Of course they are!! Complete fucking faggots with their nerdy haircuts and their pathetic, desparate attempt to buy into being ‘cool’. FAGGOTS!!!!
Straight men run Linux.
If Mac users are gay, then windows users are, more or less, gay as well with one exception: windows users are always constipated from the constant stress. OS X is unix and is truly more powerful than windows could ever be. As a mater of fact, if you are my age, you would remember that Billy boy Gates’ goal was to bring some flavor of unix to the common computer user. Nevertheless, he failed and instead he provided the world with the gayest OS ever DOS which was based on the original qdos (Quick Dirty Operating System) aka gay. Any IT guy not willing to dive into OS X, Linux! Unix and the many favors of windows is a pu55y.
QDOS: Look it up @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick-and-dirty
Windows is just a QDOS with lots of lipstick. I use windows, Linux and OS X on our network and I think all OSs suck, Linux just sucks less.
Mac’s ARE gay. Just accept it.
They are designed to look like tampon dispensers and function basically the same. Soaking up the blood, sweat, and tears of an honest months labor in exchange for a long smooth cylindrical object to stick in the orifice of choice so you can claim how superior you are in your new elitist club cult.
Maybe Apple should loosen the butt-clinch they have on their design and let people choose what design they want instead of making every product look like a bathroom fixture from the women’s room on Star Trek.
Mac’s are:
Overpriced
Outdated
Cost more to repair than buy used
Have limited functionality, memory, accessories, lack of ports
Overpriced gimmicky, clunky add-on’s that defeat the purpose of form and function. For example a $200 video cable to hook up a TV or a $75 external memory card reader to get pictures off of a camera. I could go on and on.
Mac doesn’t require the additional knowledge, tech savy and setup that a PC requires. It’s already worked out. This is why Mac has limited ports and third party accessories. It is also why they are so far behind in technical specifications even though much of the internals are identical to a PC including hard drives, RAM, DVD drives, etc. A Mac owner is like a Prius owner, who knows nothing about cars, engines, or batteries and only wants to tell us how great they are for doing the earth a favor.
I scoff at seeing the old Mac commercials based on the novel ‘1984’ where fed up prisoners to the IBM computer lords break the screen and run away too be ‘FREE’.
It’s ironic since you have to give Apple your first born child, personal info and credit cards just to use their devices.
IBM granted the rights to anyone who wanted to make computers and thus the PC has proliferated. There are even dozens of free operating systems that can be run on them.
Microsoft released the latest OS for $40 bucks. That is remarkable for this day and age. These times they are a changin’ kids. You can pick up a netbook for $200 or a cheap laptop for $299 from Walmart.
Hardly anything to bitch and moan about. Macs do break down, they do get viruses, the screens crack, the power ports weaken.
Bring a bucket with you to Apple Store to catch your jaw when they tell you it will be $800 for a new LCD screen.
Also, bring some tissue when you cry about how many game and softwares titles are NOT available on your $2K dollar do-nothing-machine.
Sure iPad’s are great educational toys for the kids, but PC is here to stay unless Apple makes some unlikely changes.
(P.S.-They won’t!)
The Mac OS might as well be in Scandinavian.
Other than a few overprivileged rich kid’s at Starbuck’s and that webpage ‘designer’ with the funny walk, you’re on your own.
Experience: 12+ years Mac/PC repair
Source: living in Los Angeles and being old enough to know better