Gay straight or taken
Lifetime’s new reality matchmaking app game disaster comes with the awkward title, Gay, Direct, or Taken? Just how awkward it is became remove in the frequent print and television advertisements leading up to the premiere, urgently asking viewers, “Do you contain GST?” Why not call it what it is? The show is about gaydar, that unreal power of instant identification that male lover men and some women seem to wield so naturally.
GST? presumes the life of some such spidey-sense, or worse, some irreducible gayness marked on the body and in behavior that gives away the ghost for the direct girl who is able to interpret men “correctly.” Such feminine ability to interpret male orientation is of necessary importance to the show’s assertion of the “difficulties” of heterosexual, female-targeted romances (apparently part of the empowerment letter sold by Lifetime, “Television for Women”). As marketing for the show insists, GST? is “the dating game you already play,” the “you” being, presumably, restricted to heterosexually-identified single women.
In each episode, one such gal is presented with three prime male opt
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Gay, Straight or Taken?
Gay, Unbent or Taken? puts the potential couples through familiar dating show set-ups crafted to get them pleasant with each other -- yoga instruction, pool second, a salsa lesson, etc. Each of these scenarios is awkward and hardly revealing, but, unlike some other dating shows, Gay, Straight or Taken? feels lighthearted and barely competitive: no binge drinking, no topless hot tubs, no catfights.
With its fairly first take on the dating-show concept, and one based on the day-to-day online dating habits of heterosexual women all over the planet, this show's premise is based on making assumptions about someone based on their appearance and behavior while also being deceived -- obviously not the greatest lessons for teens. But watching an episode or two might provide a good starting show for a discussion about assumptions and identity. And although stereotypes about homosexual men are certainly presented, viewers are often surprised by who actually ends up being gay -- offering a lesson in avoiding snap judgments and assumptions.
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Straight Eye for the Gay Guy
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Endemol—the Dutch production firm responsible for crucial advances in the arenas of family-friendly raunch (Fear Factor), impenitent voyeurism (Big Brother), and garish piffle (Deal or No Deal)—has discovered a delightful new barrel to scrape the bottom of. Each episode of dating show Gay, Direct or Taken? (Lifetime, Mondays at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET) sets up an earnest woman for a three-on-one assignation. If she picks the “straight” guy, she and her choice slab of beef will enjoy their second date in some exotic locale. Thus, in the first installment, a prolifically dimpled woman named Jenner prances into the frame, aglow with the dream that she’ll discover “an all-around great guy with no baggage.” But she instead has walked, on her wedges, into a dating show animated by a spirit of breezy dementia worthy of Chuck Barris himself. One of the guys is taken, and if Jenner picks him, then he and his girlfriend will triumph the vacation; one of the guys, not happening to swing her way, is doubly unavailable, and if Jenner pick