Guys who talk with a LISP !!!

[The_Reaper]

I don't have a lisp, but I do have a speech impediment and stumble on some words from time to time.

I can assure you, it's not something someone has control over.


There are actually words that I can not pronounce, just can't get the mouth to go along with it, so I have to use other words for it.

So, unless punching these people in the face is going to act like corrective surgery, I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

^^I love Scott Thompson

 

[tx_doc]

^^ I would LOVE to have a beer with Scott too. One of the first openly gay comedians that I remember as a youth. He made it easier for me to come out.

 

[justsimon]

I tend to think it's adorable when men talk in an effeminate way... as for guys with actual speech impediments, I'm one, too.

 

[Swellegant]

It gets on my nerves.
I don't understand what being gay has to do with talking in a really annoying way. Some guys are just so desperate to fit a certain image.

EXACTLY!!!!

But some people above try to nickpick and dissect a post to come up with some far-fetched assumption. Well said vermilion.

I find Minnesota accents irritating. I mean, what has living in a particular state have to do with squeezing your vowels in the middle and calling soft drinks "pop"? Why do Minnesotans feel they have to talk a certain way to fit in with all the other Minnesotans?

Oh, and don't get me started on those ghastly Texas accents! I mean, is there something in the water that makes everybody's adenoids swell up? Why do the women have to talk through clenched-up smiles? Why must they say "y'all" all the time? I mean really, who are they trying to impress?

Still, I've never wanted to punch a Minnesotan in the mouth or tell a Texan to grow some balls just because I don't like his accent. There's a lot of hate in you, SurfBoy18, and that hate seeps out of your every utterance... that's why we dissect the posts, so we can show you what we're hearing under the surface of what you're saying.

 

[J-23]

It gets on my nerves.
I don't understand what being gay has to do with talking in a really annoying way. Some guys are just so desperate to fit a certain image.

EXACTLY!!!!

But some people above try to nickpick and dissect a post to come up with some far-fetched assumption. Well said vermilion.

Kind of like how you're so desperate to fit the image of a tough, manly man that you feel the need to physically threaten effeminate men and tell them to "grow some balls"?

 

[RenaissanceMan]

Doesn't bother me. It's variety! Spice! (And, depending on the guy - Extremely attractive!)

I currently have a TA at university who has a bit of a lisp, though not a stereotypical gay "queen" lisp (ie. he doesn't sound stereotypically gay...he's obviously not trying at all). And for once it actually IS very attractive for me.

On some cute guys it really adds to their cuteness ...as long as it's not forced or put on (and I won't even call what my TA has a "speech problem"). It doesn't make him seem any more feminine either...though of course it most often does.

If anyone was watching So You Think You Can Dance, Travis was another one with a cute slight lisp...not immediately obvious, but still there.

 

[J-23]

Im not desperate to fit any image. Im a male. I act like a male. I expect the same of others. Simple as that. Im entitled to have an opinion just as you are. I don't like guys who talk w/ lisps because its annoying and fake. (excluding people who have medical conditions/speech problems of course)

How does having a lisp make you any less male? Do most women have lisps?

 

[RenaissanceMan]

Im a male. I act like a male.

It's questionable what that exactly means...some homophobes will probably tell you're not acting like a male by being on this website....but even seriously, it doesn't have one meaning in different cultures, time-periods...not even in a single culture.

 

[teh_nathan]

I have to agree with you there. Just shoot them at dawn - unless they actually do have a speech impediment, which would be the minority.

I absolutely HATE when a grown man talks with a LISP. I want to just punch him in the face or tell him to grow some balls. Seriously.





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[DaveyH]

I have an aquaintence who is always coming on to me and telling me what he'd like me to do to him. He is a very good looking guy and if I wasn't in a relationship I'd have done it because as I said he's very attractive. Then one night he starts ripping on "queens" and "sissies" who have a lisp, saying they weren't real men and he'd like to trip them as they walk by. Firstly, that made him immedietely unattractive. Then I told him that if it shaves and has a cock, no matter the voice, then they are a man. I tried to remind him that tons of homophobic straight men would want to kick his ass for wanting to suck my dick. I think that most of the time this kind of attitude is just self loathing.

DaveyH

 

[tx_doc]

I keep seeing "unless they have a speech impediment" and "only if they are doing it on purpose" type statements. So are we going up to these people and asking if they are doing this on purpose or if they have a medical condition?

 

[sb]

I've said it before and I will most probably say it again but I am so sick of faggots who hate themselves and think its only acceptable to be a faggot if absolutely nothing you do is stereotypically faggy.

A woman who is a mechanic isn't less of a woman because of it just as a man who wears a dress, talks with a lisp and paints his nail isn't less of a man.

Anybody who wants to physically harm someone because of the way they talk is a loser fuckwit.

 

[blackbeltninja]

I'm with Surfboy on this, for the simple reason that I cannot stand posers. Someone who lisps is unfortunate. Someone who inflects a lisp intentionally is a poser.

My guess is that we all pose sometimes, and we all know it. Thus, the worst kind of poser is someone who doesn't even realise that they're posing anymore.

-d-

 

[slnattak]

People don't want to admit this, but those lispy effeminate guys are way better in bed than faux-macho self-loathers.

 

[eberg]

Look, this is about assumptions and sterotypes.

Straight people fall into thousands of categories and personality types. Why do gay people have to all fall into one? I'm not an effeminate S-dragger-outer...and I wouldn't want to be...you can keep 'em. Not my type. Just like, for example, some straight men in college who I'm sure can't stand their annoying frat-boy companions. Different personalities. Different ways of acting. Still both gay, or both straight.

Case in point, last week I went to a party with my best friend Beth. We have been friends since we are about 7 years old. She's not my hag. She's my friend. When someone at the party who we had just met made the awful comparison that we were like "Will and Grace".... I had to correct them.

"Sorry, but I don't go around telling her she's fabulous, picking out her clothes, criticizing her choice in men, and smacking her ass for fun."

She wasn't offended, neither was I. Just needed to clear things up.

"I loved that show, though" I said.

 

[RenaissanceMan]

Just shoot them at dawn - unless they actually do have a speech impediment, which would be the minority.

It's stupid, judgemental, shallow, just plain idiotic...

What two people decide to do with their lives is absolutely none of our business.

If two people can decide to do with their lives what they want and it's none of our business, surely if ONE person decides something, it is none of our business as well?

 

[khembalou22]

Thanksss for posssting this Mattie. It's ssssooo fucking funny!!! I've forgotten how funny Kidsss in the Hall isss.

This thread on lissspsss is rather ssstale. Jussst possst more of Buddy pleassse!!! He remindsss me of how much of treat it isss to be a flaming queen.

 

[Leidian]

I used to have a bit of lisp, had to go to speech therapy (or whatever it's called) all through elementary school. Wouldn't you figure the teacher's name was "Mrs. Messenger"!!! That's a rude joke to play on a 7 year old.

Anyway, I don't lisp anymore unless I am SUPER tired. I am so grateful that I was able to get rid of it, but not everyone is so lucky. Just because a guy is gay and happens to lisp, doesn't mean that he is doing it on purpose. A little more consideration is in order. It's just like being really short/tall, or having health problems you can't control that make you overweight/too thin.

Get to know people, not what you consider to be their problems.

 

[RationalLunacy]

What I want to know is what sadist invented the word "lisp" and put the "s" in it?