“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!
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!
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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.
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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?