PBS aired this new episode of "Nature" about the relationship between owners and their dogs/cats on Valentine's Day weekend. I'm not sure if the air date was intentional — a nod to the enduring love between humans and pets — but it did make the requisite lonely cat-lady segments seem all the more lazy. (Isn't taking an aloof approach to subjects in order to make them look like they aren't in on the joke, and oblivious to the fact that you're making fun of them, so beneath you, PBS? That's our "job"!)
But this was a PBS show, so it didn't stray too far from its trademarks of respectable centrism (e.g., diversity = middle-class gays), as evidenced in the clip above. What more could you ask for? There's a guy in a really tight shirt talking SUBSTANTIVELY about "The Feminine Window" and laughing at his own bitchy cleverness — that's what it's called when a
"You don't have any trouble... especially in that shirt."
MEOW!* Sure, the plunging neckline does scream subversive promiscuity, and the fuchsia color says popper-fueled bare-backing... but it's still mean. There's also a mention of HIV, which you know, WOOF!* — what a downer and perfect for PBS's purposes. (I'd normally question whether he really did imagine AIDS as a mouse in his "creative visualizations," or if he just made that part up as an attempt to get more screen time, but I couldn't get away with asking that without the proper collar.)
*Sorry
In order to overcompensate for assuming that the FLAMING gentleman with HIV is in fact a homosexual, here's another interviewee who could TECHNICALLY be called a gay part of this episode. Not because you never know who might be gay by mannerisms alone, but because he's someone that WE might consider attractive, SEXUALLY.
I CAN SAVE YOU!!!
When I lock myself in a room for a days-long drinking binge, my dog brings the Everclear.
Also: that guy would be totally attractive (who doesn't love a handsome, glossy drunk?) if it weren't for the fact that he lets a cat actually touch his skin.