The people have spoken. "Saddlebacking" defined!

[Bluebear]

And the winner is ...

The votes are in, the people have spoken, our democratic ideals are renewed. But first: Anyone who picks up the Jan. 24 issue of the Economist -- I pick it up every week for the "Page 3 Boy," sudoku puzzle, and horoscopes -- will find this lead paragraph to a story about Barack Obama's inauguration:

"Any decision Barack Obama makes can cause a stir. He invited Rick Warren, a popular pastor, to say a few words at his inauguration. The aim was to stroke conservative Christians, thereby fostering a warm feeling of national unity. But some of Mr. Obama's gay supporters were appalled. Though hardly a fire-breather by the standards of Southern Baptists, Mr. Warren holds old-fashioned views about homosexuality. Bloggers lamented Mr. Obama's 'betrayal.' Dan Savage, a gay columnist, urged his readers to protest by coining a new meaning for 'Saddleback' -- the name of Mr. Warren's church. Many of the suggestions were unprintable."

Many of them were unprintable? Not true, Economites. I printed all of them right here in this space. So it's not that the suggestions themselves were unprintable -- there's not one single profanity in the lot -- it's that you poofs just don't have the balls to print them. That's very different.

And now ... without further delay ... the winning definition of "saddleback" ... by a gaping margin ... definition number 5:

"Saddlebacking: the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities." After attending the Purity Ball, Heather and Bill saddlebacked all night because she's saving herself for marriage.


http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/saddleback_the_winners_are_in/Content?oid=626291

[ferrous wheel]

1. Well, I guess it sounds a little less licentious than fudgepacking...

:scared:

[FiveGoodMen]

3. Why the ice cube? This is a slam on church hypocrisy, not gay people.

Dan Savage (a gay man who writes the 'Savage Love' sex column) asked for possible definitions and chose this one.

He's also the one who got Santorum redefined.

[Ilsa]

7. Is "fudgepacking" exclusive to gays? I'm not familiar

with all the lingo. I can see where the Christian teens might prefer a term like "saddlebacking" because it sounds so western, rugged, etc. And yes, this should be a slam to church sexual hypocrisy. It shouldn't be a GLBT thing or slam.

[FiveGoodMen]

8. I was just speculating on why ferrous would use the :scared: smiley in response to the info

[Ilsa]

13. Oh, oops, okay. I didn't really even see the "afraid" ice cube smiley. nt

[ferrous wheel]

10. I only said that because it's a slur that's been used on me a few times

that's all I meant to point out that it's one of those words that generates a lot of emotion. I didn't say it very well, sorry.

[Ilsa]

14. That's that doggone internets for ya! It's horrible that people can be so

ugly and rude. It is an mean term, and I think your remark has some validity for self-righteous heteros to try and make their lingo more macho sounding, trying to discriminate between the way they want to have sex versus gays.

[ferrous wheel]

9. Oh crap I picked a bad one. I just meant how some words terrify some people

(the word I used is so often used pejoratively) I'm gay but I don't much travel in gay circles - my partner and I are way out of mainstream gay community & have been for 25 years. My bad.

[FiveGoodMen]

11. I wasn't criticizing.

I just figured that -- out of context -- you were seeing it as a homophobic slur.

It's just meant to tweak Rick Warren, abstinence-only sex-ed, and the absurd -- and apparently, widely held -- notion that anal sex doesn't count.

:hi:

[ferrous wheel]

12. thanks I will be more cautious posting!

I am just guessing here, the people who think that doesn't count weren't so generous when Clinton's problems arose, huh? So 'restored virginity' is superfluous in these cases? This stuff makes my head hurt. :-)

[Initech]

2. Thanks you owe me a new LCD!

:spray: :rofl:

[Starry Messenger]

4. k & r

That's the one I voted for. :D

[ColbertWatcher]

5. I'm glad Heather's saving herself for marriage.

She can do better than Bill.

[backscatter712]

6. That goes into the books with "santorum"

Lemme put both words into a sentence...

After a passionate night of saddlebacking, the kids scrambled to clean the santorum off the bedsheets before the parents got home!