Post by Carolyn on Jul 29, 2003 22:19:51 GMT -5
Okay, so I'm still in the States and it's not available back home, BUT maybe you can get it on the net via the Bravo network. They have just started running the most amazing show, called "Queer Eye on the Straight Guy" and I'm totally hooked.
Five gay guys take on a straight man and try to civilize him for a variety of reasons. Tonight, it was a cowboy kind of guy who was living in New York and in love with a sophisticated lady he wanted to propose to. A week ago, it was this New Jersey Jewish guy who had basically forgotten his wife's birthday for, oh, the last 6 or 7 years.
Each of the guys has a specialty - hair, food, clothes, interior design, culture and social competence - and they spend a day with the straight, working on his style, his living conditions and his general all around life.
I find it, first of all, amazing that the straight guys are really quite comfortable with it, showing some real advances in damping down the homophobic macho attitudes of several centuries, but it's just so much fun to see how all most guys really need is a few hints to make them quite civilized.
Don't know that it would work as well in Sweden, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because most of the Swedish guys I know have at least a basic competence in cooking and taking care of themselves, but I just adore this show. And the gods know, if only men would even spend a LITTLE time taking care of their basic hygiene, especially their skin, how much nicer things could be!
Five gay guys take on a straight man and try to civilize him for a variety of reasons. Tonight, it was a cowboy kind of guy who was living in New York and in love with a sophisticated lady he wanted to propose to. A week ago, it was this New Jersey Jewish guy who had basically forgotten his wife's birthday for, oh, the last 6 or 7 years.
Each of the guys has a specialty - hair, food, clothes, interior design, culture and social competence - and they spend a day with the straight, working on his style, his living conditions and his general all around life.
I find it, first of all, amazing that the straight guys are really quite comfortable with it, showing some real advances in damping down the homophobic macho attitudes of several centuries, but it's just so much fun to see how all most guys really need is a few hints to make them quite civilized.
Don't know that it would work as well in Sweden, for a variety of reasons, but mostly because most of the Swedish guys I know have at least a basic competence in cooking and taking care of themselves, but I just adore this show. And the gods know, if only men would even spend a LITTLE time taking care of their basic hygiene, especially their skin, how much nicer things could be!