Which is more “gay”: drinking cappuccino or moisturising ones face?
Whilst waiting to get into the screening of Sherlock Holmes at the Vue in Portsmouth last Thursday I decided to buy myself a cappuccino. It was an early afternoon viewing and I hadn’t had my caffeine fix that morning, not to mention that my most recent visits to the cinema had resulted in me falling asleep during the picture. I figured that a cappuccino would resolve both of those issues.
So I get my cappuccino from the concession stand when my girlfriend pipes up, “are you having a cappuccino? That’s so gay.” She wasn’t meaning in the traditional, jolly sense. She was insisting that it is only gay men who drink cappuccino’s.
Firstly, it is important to remember that we were a few moments away from seeing the new Sherlock Holmes film. And, admittedly, while I did spend a considerable part of the picture contemplating who a woman would find more attractive: Jude Law or Robert Downey Jnr, there is very little homosexual about wanting to see that film.
I can understand how squeezing another man’s buttocks could be perceived as being a homosexual act, but purchasing a particular type of coffee?
My counter-arguement was based on the fact that earlier in the week, when we were exchanging be-lated Christmas presents, she gave me a gift set which contained male face moisturiser. Surely, I asked, the act of applying moisturiser to ones face is more of an indication of homosexual tendencies than drinking a cappuccino? She said no; soft skin is important. Which is true. I love soft skin (particularly hers) and I must confess that my face does feel pretty damn good once it has been moisturised (in perfect contrast to my rough, masculine stubble). But I still don’t feel particularly comfortable moisturising because it is surely much “gayer” than drinking cappuccino?
