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Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Stuart Smalley was seen as funny because of his prissy, effeminate mannerisms, not because of his self-help stuff.
While not outwardly portrayed as gay, that was the main part of the joke with that character -- an insecure, repressed, prissy gay man who is doing self-help shows.
The left gives him a pass for this because he's basically their hero, but make no mistake that this Smalley character was supposed to be a gay man that straight people were laughing at.
Druff: Please point to any segment of the Stuart Smalley skits where the character reveals his sexual preference? If you can't, then your comment that he was "gay" is indicate of your bigotry in which you automatically assume that a prissy male is gay.
And to help you understand why your interpretation his mannerisms are wrong, I several effeminate males in high school and college who were straight. It just happened to be that they raised by single/divorced mothers for most of the formative years, and either no siblings or only older sisters, and picked up their speech and physical movement mannerisms. And they weren't in the closet about their sexuality. They genuinely were straight, not closeted.
The one at college was a lothario of sorts with a string of hot girlfriends, which amazed us because we didn't understand why women were attracted to him. Turns out his game was to be friends with them, then swoop in when they having relationship problems, be comforting shoulder, then bed them to shown how they "deserved to be treated better. The amazing part was thst he was able to break out of the "friend zone". The trick was to mot stay in it too long, and make his move at their emotionally weakest point. His effeminate nature helped him seem like a safe shoulder to cry on. Only after he scored and got bored with them did they realize that he was a cad.