CARNAL NATION

Have you gotten bored of the way gay men are shown on television yet? Sure, nowadays gay men are less likely to be shown slaughtering random strangers or feeling up sixth-graders as in days of yore, but as Bryan Safi points out in the episode of CurrentTV's That's Gay below, they're often shoved into a role that's no less confining: the magical gay who will make things all better through dancing and fashion tips. The first clip, from The Real Housewives of Atlanta, is perhaps the worst, bringing together as it does cringeworthy stereotypes of both gay men and black women in only a few seconds of video.