Macbook Pro: The New Way to 'Cure' Your Kid's Homosexuality
A listing (since flagged) on Craigslist LA:
"I am selling my son't macobok pro 15 inch. He found out that there is going to be a new macbook so I will be buying that for him. I bought it last summer so it isn't even a year old yet. It is on pretty decent shape. I am pretty firm on the price.
"Just a footnote. I don't want to get a ton of messages from you guys saying that I am spoiling my son and turning him into an entitled monster. There is a backstory that you aren't even aware of. My son was committing homosexual acts and got caught in the act. We made a deal that if he chose to be straight, that we would buy him more nice things. So don't message me saying that I am a bad parent for spoiling him. It's quite the opposite, I am a good parent adn I'm working with him to correct his problem."
(via facebook, via sean chapin)
Whoa, what's with the jabs at Culver City? I'm a happy gay guy who's lived there, um, forever, and I just don't get it.
I don't look at Craig's List, so I have no idea if this kind of over-sharing is done there - - but if there's an address to go buy the laptop or send child protective services, let me know and I'll pop over there on my way home from work!
Posted by: Zlick | Jun 13, 2012 8:09:09 PM
When I was in Kindergarten I came home and told my Mother other kids were telling me there was no Santa Claus. My Mother said, "Kids that don't believe in Santa don't get as many gifts for Christmas as those who do." When I was 10 my Mother asked, "Do you really still believe in Santa?" I said,"No, I haven't believed in Santa since I was 5." "Why then have you been pretending you do and making me put gifts out from Santa all these years?", she asked. "Because you told me kids that don't believe don't get as many gifts so I didn't want to short change myself!" was my response.
If this post is even true then like me this gay boy is one tricky kid taking his parents for a ride. And for that I say good for him!
Posted by: Bryan | Jun 13, 2012 8:14:39 PM
This is the funniest thing I've seen all day. =)
Posted by: jexer | Jun 13, 2012 8:18:01 PM
Kid's hit the gold mine! Kiss a boy every week and he's set!!
Posted by: Thomas Bisset | Jun 13, 2012 8:38:08 PM
He's asking for someone to come over whose gay to set him "straight." I think straight guys would avoid that purchase as it's not an incredible bargain. Who knows maybe he likes to have threesomes with his son.
Posted by: Markt | Jun 13, 2012 8:43:03 PM
@Bob, Blacks don't be spoilin their chirruns in that way!!
Posted by: Edd | Jun 13, 2012 8:49:13 PM
Reeks of BS.
Posted by: ratbastard | Jun 13, 2012 8:54:51 PM
This seems a little too..........well, yeah, fake. With that being said, if it's true, it's horrible, and I hope someone tracks down this individuals' IP address so we can find out who made this post.
Posted by: Francis | Jun 13, 2012 8:57:06 PM
Man! Gay porn is going to look soooooo much better on that new Mac! I am so jealous!
Posted by: Brian | Jun 13, 2012 8:58:50 PM
If this is really a true ad and back story, I applaud that kid.
Let's see, don't have sex for a new 2-3k+ dollar item (possibly more than one) almost every year.. I'd do it, in a heart beat.
Of course I'm straight! I'll take that new MBP with all the options, oh and a MacPro too, the $5,000 model.
Thanks, love you dad. Yup, yup, I'm totally straight.
Posted by: Kogenta | Jun 13, 2012 9:03:51 PM
For a new Macbook Pro, I'd make passionate love to an apple.
Posted by: Tom | Jun 13, 2012 9:06:03 PM
as I said on a previous article here: Please God. Please! send the rapture!!!
Posted by: stevenelliot | Jun 13, 2012 9:21:32 PM
Fakety Fakerson from Faketown.
Posted by: Seattle Mike | Jun 13, 2012 9:34:54 PM
LOL this is one smart gay kid...
Posted by: jaragon | Jun 13, 2012 9:42:28 PM
LOL this is one smart gay kid...
Posted by: jaragon | Jun 13, 2012 9:42:32 PM
I'd trade in the 6" for the 15" macbook any year! Honestly, I wish I tried this in high school.
Posted by: Al | Jun 13, 2012 9:49:04 PM
This is why I can't have nice things.
Posted by: Stetson | Jun 13, 2012 10:03:43 PM
MY parents told me that they'd bribe me to give up "all this pro-gay stuff." They thought a trip to Europe would do it. But I told them that for this I'd only give up my pro-gay marriage position. To give up Towleroad itself I'd need a condo in the Village. But they said "The Village? Then you'd be near all those specialty bars and nightclubs - you might end up a lesbian" So I guess I'm stuck here!
.......................(joking!)
Posted by: Mary | Jun 13, 2012 10:07:07 PM
I posted this story last night on TalkAboutEquality.
I actually received a reply from the person who placed the ad and confirmed the location. I think it's legit.
http://talkaboutequality.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/if-youre-straight-ill-get-you-a-new-macbook/
Posted by: JamieMcG | Jun 13, 2012 10:15:04 PM
Str8 for pay? Can we make that rhyme? Str8 for something great? Help me out here.
Posted by: anon | Jun 14, 2012 12:12:26 AM
funny to see how many people have believed this to be a true story lol The way it was written gives it away !!!
Posted by: MarkBoston | Jun 14, 2012 1:03:19 AM
Well played, kid. Well played.
Don't come out until after graduate school, as you're driving away in your Saab convertible.
Posted by: the milkman | Jun 14, 2012 1:03:20 AM
In an incredibly naive, sick and blindingly homophobic way... it's actually kind of sweet.
Of course, the reality of the situation is that the parents would probably do well not to check out the browsing history on that computer too well. They may find out that their generosity is having the worse effect, given what the "internet is for." ROFL.
Posted by: Ryan | Jun 14, 2012 2:42:36 AM
If they were my parents I'd find myself a beard, give her half of the nice things, and reap the benefits of having ignorant parents.
Posted by: Austin | Jun 14, 2012 3:40:27 AM
Goldmine down the road for a family therapist.
Posted by: Daniel Berry, NYC | Jun 14, 2012 8:25:12 AM