“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.