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Mr. Wow Blasts Perez Hilton | 05/01/2009 3:15 pm

A Practicing Omni-Sexual Weighs In on Miss California, Gay Rights and Perez Hilton

Mr. wOw vents about the brouhaha at the beauty pageant.
By Mr. Wow

Editor's Note: Mr. Wow writes upon occasion for wOw. He is the ultimate Hollywood insider who live-blogged Oscar night for us. Today he dropped in to stir it up a little. We're sure you'll agree he succeeded.

Mr. wOw wonders what blogger Perez Hilton really had in mind when he asked Miss USA contestant, Carrie Prejean, about gay marriage. And I wonder what he’s thinking now that it has all backfired.

The majority of beauty queens are Christian or Mormon or ... something else that does not believe in a woman’s right to choose or gay people getting married. And that’s fine for them. (Just as it’s fine for them to put plastic balloons in their chest cavities and sleep in cancer-causing tanning beds. One must suffer and die for hilariously artificial beauty.)     

Perez had to know he was going to get some version of the answer he did -- “I believe marriage should be between a man and a woman.” She didn’t say everybody ought to believe as she does -- even if she thinks that. (We can’t censor what people think -- yet.) Miss California did use the phrase “in my country” when prefacing her remark on gay marriage, but also talked about “people having a choice” in America. Hmmm ... this came as a big surprise for the millions of gay Americans who don’t have a choice.

I think Miss California gave the best answer possible under the circumstances. She was startled; she doesn’t believe in gay marriage; and she's a beauty pageant contestant, for heaven’s sake! Ask her about saving the whales or world peace.

She didn’t win, perhaps because of her nix on gay marriage. Perez blogged viciously about her afterward, calling her a “dumb bitch” and the C-word; thereby conforming to every ugly stereotype about gay men vis-à-vis the female sex. Mr. wOw loves women. He is repulsed by this sort of attack. 

Miss CA has gone on to turn lemons into champagne, a far bigger deal than she would have garnered had she won! And now, emboldened and insulted, she really is speaking out against gay marriage.

Every time Perez lashes out, she gets another speaking gig or spot on conservative TV or radio. They are giving her parades! She is the new heroine of the right -- a sweet, beleaguered, heavily painted Christian, being fed to those nasty gay lions.

Perez, you are helping this girl’s career, get it? (And putting a big grin on Donald Trump’s face, too. The Donald doesn’t give a damn about gay marriage one way or another, probably. He just loves the publicity this has generated for his pageant.)

If Perez felt he had to make a political statement, perhaps he could have worded it this way: “In the USA, convicted murderers on Death Row have the right to get married. Do you think law-abiding, tax-paying, gay American citizens should have the same rights as Death Row prisoners?”

Now, that might have stumped her for a minute. I know it silences dinner tables every time I say it.

Of course, I silence dinner tables every time I say Meryl Streep is overrated and over-honored, too.

29 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Belinda Joy

I love it! Everything you have written Mr. Wow is exactly what I was thinking. Indeed what was Perez expecting to hear from her? Let’s be real….

And your comment about his attack on her is also what I was thinking. Especially at a time when Gay rights and acceptance is in the spotlight and on everyone’s conversation lists these days, his substantiating the stereotype of Gay men toward women does a huge disservice at this time.

By Belinda Joy on 05/01/2009 3:42 pm
Linda Myers

Years ago attending a community Thanksgiving dinner in the small hometown of my ex, a group was brought to the dinner from the county farm. Those that either mentally or socially lived and were taken care of by the county. One little old man probably in his eighties came in, dressed like a woman. I asked my then mother n law, why he was at the farm. She looked at me and said "well, just look how he is dressed, he has done that since he was a child, and the farm became his home a very long time ago. I asked her if she meant his possibly being gay, put him in the county home? And she just said it was the best option for the family.

All I could think was oh my god, what ignorance, but it was a very real fact of life at that time, and ignorance even today in a time when the gay and lesbian population has a voice, is still strong. Both on the part of Perez, and the girl from California. Why is it, that a persons sexuality is found to be so interesting, or in some cases thought to still be mentally unstable? What is the difference in who people are, or having to constantly claim an identity in thier sexuality, either they are gay or lesbian, or heterosexual which blankets all other forms of sexuality which many find exceptable, unless a hetero of some form is found to be deviant.  

Does it really matter at the end of the day? There is not a person on this earth, including Miss CA or Perez that is does not carry both a masculine and feminine energy.

By Linda Myers on 05/01/2009 4:24 pm
darcus grey
Thanks for an interesting story and a great post.
By darcus grey on 05/01/2009 7:18 pm
E .

Okay "Mr. wOw" you made me laugh - out loud for crissakes.  You need to write more - please, sir, I want some more.

By E . on 05/01/2009 6:18 pm
Melanie Waldrop
I am in total agreement with you, Mr. wOw!
By Melanie Waldrop on 05/01/2009 7:42 pm
Laura Ward

Meryl Streep has said that people overrate and over-honor her, too. ("…but not tonight…" at the Golden Globes 2003, Angels in America she teased)

Ms. California answered with honor and dignity in a set up question on nation-wide TV. Too bad Perez showed he’s the opposite.

By Laura Ward on 05/01/2009 10:01 pm
Deena B.

I’d say that sums the situation up quite nicely.  I’m with E. - Mr. wOw made me LOL also and I’m hoping we will hear more.

My only question is whether Perez Hilton realizes yet how badly the whole thing backfired.

By Deena B. on 05/01/2009 10:42 pm
Harriet Shoebridge
A few thoughts … isn’t marriage ultimately about commitment … whether someone chooses to stay with a gem of a human being or shares coffee each and every morning with a liar and a user, hoping against hope and common sense that love and whatever that means will reap a ‘gem of a human being’ some happy day … commitment … why people marry … because we look at that someone and see coffee and conversation and the sweet good things that prompt a person to sign up for the long haul, understood as everything relative and so on … So.  Perhaps marriage needs a new definition … for the likes of Miss California and Perez Hilton who will and would go at one another anyhow and why sign up for their donkey and cart hoopla?  The marriage ceremony, with the attendant officials, replaced by a commitment ceremony … people do this and how lovely is this anyhow … to stand up with your chosen, in front of friends and well-wishers, and lay your heart on the floor and say I am committing myself to this someone?  But then and of course there are those who would say, ‘but I want to marry’ and to these persons I would reply, ‘reframe, redefine what is meant by marriage and get on with sharing your love with your chosen.’   In truth, Miss California and Mr. Hilton have a certain something in common.  Miss California, by virtue of plastic, a ‘death ray’ healthy glow, a more than stringent attention to calorie intake and, of course, that prerequisite dose of peroxide, will always have an audience.  And Mr. Hilton, for reasons known only to those who enjoy a good rant, is equally user friendly when it comes to a ready audience.  But.  Who cares?  Because the issue is not the choice of speaker but marriage, redefined, to reflect it’s true essence, that is, this thing that looks beyond morning breath and soiled shorts stacked up outside the shower and coffee grounds on the kitchen counter and to that special something called commitment.
By Harriet Shoebridge on 05/02/2009 1:46 am
darcus grey
That makes a whole lot of sense.
By darcus grey on 05/02/2009 4:45 am
Kay Sara
I enjoyed Mr. Wow’s thoughts. 
By Kay Sara on 05/02/2009 9:29 am
Lily Rose

Mr Wow, my friend, may I share a quote from a 9 year old beauty pageant contestant on the series "Little Miss Perfect?"

"My goal?  I’d like to be Miss America.  If I don’t make it, maybe a doctor." 

Perhaps losing, regardless of her opinion of gay marriage, my friend, IS the best thing after all.

By Lily Rose on 05/02/2009 9:56 am
Amanda C
b-but… meryl is a goddess…
By Amanda C on 05/02/2009 2:05 pm
C white
Great article, Mr. wOw-  I am in total agreement with you about Streep’s acting abilities…yawn! 
By C white on 05/03/2009 7:48 am
Flex Colby

Mr. WoW, you seem to be trapped in a time warp. The flamboyant ignorance, espoused by Carrie P. that caused her to lose the beauty pageant is history! Her, very offensive, tirade against our liberties, the right to get married, is the new war that you seem to ignore, and imply that we deserve to be on the receiving end of. 

Carrie P. is a screaming religious zealot. Now, that she volunteered to be be the christianist warrior, espousing her hate, with a beautiful smile, deserves extreme scrutiny, and should provide all of the answers for the failures of "opposite sex marriage" if she truly holds traditional marriage close to her heart, which in itself is very weird!

Personally, I don’t believe she gives a damn about marriage, either way, but she will be making millions of dollars, maybe hundreds of millions of dollars, by espousing her religious bigotry, and genuinely pissing off individuals who were her former audience.  

Also, "Mr. WoW" who are you? You maybe a religious zealot yourself, who is pretending to be a "Hollywood Insider". A title, by itself, is tacky, and anonymous. I’ve never heard of you, or seen you, but there isn’t anything more uninteresting than a D-lister, raging to be a D-lister. But, you have a talent of attracting the same, lame ditto-heads. 

By Flex Colby on 05/03/2009 11:41 am
HA BIBI
Hey Flex, Bend it backwards, sit and spin!
By HA BIBI on 05/03/2009 6:42 pm