Freaky Fridays

No doubt you've heard about the Jet Blue pilot on a flight from New York to Las Vegas who had a meltdown this week. He ran up and down the aisles of his jet screaming "Say your prayers" among other things until an ex-NYPD cop and some other big guys tackled him and held him down until they made an emergency landing in Texas. But that's not the point of my story, as I'm sure you've heard that part.

What interests me is that Carson Daly, who was trying to be funny in a truthful kind of way, said on his show that it was a stroke of good luck for the passengers to have the ex NYPD cop and others on their way to a security convention in Vegas on the plane. He said it would have been his luck to have a bunch of gays heading to San Francisco to a Gay Pride parade.

Here is his quote:

"Most of the people were on their way to some sort of security conference in Las Vegas... it was like a bunch of dudes and well trained dudes... thank God," Daly said. "With my luck, it would be like... 'this is the flight going to the gay pride parade in San Francisco... I mean, that would be my colleagues."

And since he said this, Gay groups have been criticizing him and demanding an apology. So, my point is, how is this anti-gay? Gay guys pride themselves on being feminine, so why is this statement insulting? They were, in fact, fortunate to have all of these tough guys on the plane.

You can't have it both ways...