Friday, July 23, 2010

Gay Cat Pride?


So I was walking on Wisconsin Ave NW the other day, and something truly absurd caught my eye. Sure, I was in a rush, it was 100 degrees outside, and I was already sweaty on the way to a job interview, but something this uniquely bizarre only comes around every so often.
Before I tell you what it was (and pretend you didn't already see it), try for a second to understand gay pride. Is it justified? Absolutely. Homosexuals have gone through a lot of adversity and I think they deserve as many parades as they want. Their unanimous pride is a strong bond. Is it genuine? I think so. Just as any group that has faced hard times, this demographic is proud to have made it so far and acknowledge that a strong union is essential to making further progress. Is it really weird and confusing? Sometimes. And I'm not talking about Katy Perry's experiments with chapstick or Lady Gaga doing...the thing where she...sorry for the struggle, but I don't think there's been a word developed to accurately describe Lady Gaga. Check back in a few years. Anyway, back to the "weird and confusing" kind...
On this typical scorching and humid summer day in the nation's capital, I saw a cat-shaped gay pride bumper sticker. It was the well known gay pride rainbow...in bumper sticker form...in the shape of a common household feline. Under this wonderful symbol read the typical kitty one liner "meow." .................Awesome.
Luckily I captured this moment on my awful flip camera phone to share with you all. After viewing the CAT-astrophe (roll your eyes at that all you want, but I had to), I thought of all the possibilities.
1. The car owner loves cats and happens to be gay.
2. The car owner owns a gay cat.
3. The car owner IS a gay cat.
4. The car owner was a gay cat in a past lifetime and wants to remind every driver on the road that tracing reincarnation can be so accurate at times that the sexual orientation of our prior existences can be deciphered and that we should be damn proud of it.
5. The car is a "Safe Space" for gay cats everywhere.
6. The car owner owns a rare species of refracted-light cat.
7. The car owner simply loves cats a whole lot and loves rainbows a nearly equivalent amount and had no idea that a rainbow sticker in cat form would confound drivers everywhere and perhaps even attract a few cat-crazed homosexuals or homosexual cats. Depending on how smart that gay cat is. Then again, a gay cat smart enough to crack the code of the feline shaped gay pride sticker most likely has enough intelligence to avoid the crazy owner of such a bumper decal.

Of course after thinking about these scenarios I pondered the process of manufacturing gay cat stickers, selling them, branding them, pitching them, etc...but I'll spare you those hypotheses.
Above you will find the photographic evidence. Why do you think this strange image was affixed to an SUV? Better yet, was it YOUR car?

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