“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!
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-