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Gay, Straight or Taken?
Gay, Linear or Taken? puts the potential couples through familiar dating show set-ups engineered to get them content with each other -- yoga instruction, pool moment, 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 imaginative take on the dating-show concept, and one based on the day-to-day matchmaking app habits of heterosexual women all over the planet, this show's premise is based on making assumptions about someone based on their appearance and efforts 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 male lover 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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Lifetime’s new reality dating game disaster comes with the awkward title, Gay, Straight, or Taken? Just how awkward it is became clear in the frequent type and television advertisements leading up to the premiere, urgently asking viewers, “Do you have GST?” Why not call it what it is? The show is about gaydar, that mythical authority of instant identification that queer men and some women sound to wield so naturally.
GST? presumes the existence of some such spidey-sense, or worse, some irreducible gayness marked on the body and in behavior that gives away the ghost for the straight girl who is able to read men “correctly.” Such feminine ability to interpret male orientation is of necessary importance to the show’s statement of the “difficulties” of heterosexual, female-targeted romances (apparently part of the empowerment message 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 op
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Endemol—the Dutch movie company 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 display Gay, Straight 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 like their second meet in some exotic locale. Thus, in the first installment, a prolifically dimpled woman named Jenner prances into the frame, aglow with the hope that she’ll discover “an all-around great guy with no baggage.” But she instead has walked, on her wedges, into a dating display 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 prevail the vacation; one of the guys, not happening to swing her way, is doubly not free, and if Jenner pick