Washers and being Gay

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"The bottom line is this-this group we are fortunate enough to belong to is as wonderful,giving,respectful as any group of people I have ever encountered.That is what matters."

Thank you. The group was originally started by a gay man and his mostly? gay friends and associates. Things evolved and this is the third version of the club, but it has been mostly? administered by gay men. Nothing that even sounds discriminatory gets very far. Over the course of history, very, very, very few people, groups, religions, countries or civilizations that have known oppression and discrimination have learned the most important lesson from the experience: understanding of and respect for others who are not the same and treating others as they themselves would wish to be treated. I believe or would like to believe that the majority of this club has learned at least some of this whether it's because of ridicule of our appliance interests or ridicule because of other factors about us. Non-gay people who share the interest in appliances and find this place like an oasis in the desert are maybe: very good, non prejudiced people; in until they find out about the crowd and leave or willing to go along because it is the only show in town. Maybe it's strength in numbers or maybe it's a microcosm of what the world could be if people could rise above primitive tribalism, sexism, hate, fear, the need to dominate and the instinct to lash out instead of reach out when encountering new or different people and ideas. Whatever the explanation, it is a good place to have where friends can understand and share the joy of the latest find and help bear the burden of the less joyful times as well.
 
No, it has nothing to do with ridicule on my part.

I've never acknowledged that sort of ridicule. Why would I?

There's nothing illegal about smelling the contents of a box of Persil....
 
being gay and liking appliances

For heaven's sake! What will they think of next! Comparing gay individuals with appliances is so silly. If a person likes appliances the person likes appliances. If a person is gay a person is gay. So what! We're all in this world together. I'm a 53 year old (classic) grandmother and I still play with Barbie dolls. So what does that make me? A 53 year old (classic) grandmother who still plays with Barbie dolls. Life is good!
 
i wash and clean better than my own Mother does

I can say that there is not one person on the planet that does not need to clean and wash clothes. Some of us are just better at it than others. My mother for one brings me her shirts that have stains on them that she could not get clean.My Mom is always amazed that they look so good. I baked a Pumpkin pie on my own when i was seven, and liked to help out around the house. i have always found that a good thing, gay or straight, i just happen to be gay, single with really white shirts and a great nack for being domestic, and a big love for washers, dryers, vacuums, my old phones, etc.
 
Gay, but sloppy houskeeper

Not all gays keep a clean house. I am gay, love old household appliances, and do not keep a tidy house. I do two or three loads of laundry once a week in a new Whirlpool front loader (sweet! - high speed spin, huge capacity, and it has a window) and dry them very quickly on 'delicate' heat in a 20 year old Whirlpool dryer. I own five vacuum cleaners, including a 1955 Hoover Celebrity, a 25 year old Kenmore canister with power head and three uprights that are of recent vinage; I also own a recent vintage Hoover uprght "steam" cleaner. The carpet gets vacuumed maybe once a month and the steam cleaner stays in the closet. The house is a mess but it is not really dirty, I keep the bathrooms and kitchen clean. My house is definately like a Queer Eye "BEFORE" house.

I have always had a fascination with washing machines; the styling, the mechanical parts, the moving water, the spin cycle, and a lighted control panel was a definate plus. I always loved watching a washing machine while it was running (even if I had to find a way to override the lid safety switch). I remember my mom using a wringer washer and I was mesmerised by it. Mom later got a mid-1950's Norge automatic that had a sliding timer! I remember that my dad had to replace the sliding contacts insider the timer fairly often. Dad taught me how to repair many things, including appliances. One thing that really made my year was when mom and dad bought a 40" range that had pushbutton burner controls which were internally lit and changed colors depending upon which button was pushed. I remember moving to a new house and finding an old Hoover art deco upright with cloth bag, the motor was rated to work on anything from 32 volts to 120 volts, AC or DC, and it worked great.

In my early 20's I worked part time as a TV repairman at a small town family owned TV and appliance store - that was heaven. The store started out by selling water heaters and Zenith radios in the 1930's. I really do miss having stores like that. Appliances and TVs were not just dropped off and maybe hooked up. A repairman installed the appliance or TV, set it up properly (including leveling), and the buyer was shown how to use and maintain it. If it were a washing machine, the repairman could also tell the buyer what detergents worked best and which ones to avoid. If it was a TV the repairman adjusted it and set the local channels. There were cases where a repairman went back later to show the buyer how to use the appliance a second time -- at no extra cost.

While working at the TV-Appliance store, I was comfortable cooking using a microwave oven and many customers were buying their first microwave. One of things I did was teach microwave cooking classes in the store. I thought it odd that a 20 something guy who could only cook using a microwave oven was teaching a cooking class to ladies who had been cooking for many years. At Thanksgiving time I demonstrated how to cook a turkey in a microwave; shoppers would not believe that the turkey had browned in a standard microwave. I also taught customers how to sort clothes for washing and how to load dishwashers (which I also love).
 
Gay but a sloppy housekeeper

Me too!!!

My vacuum cleaners are in excellent condition - they are "genuine low mileage" for sure.
At work I am a clean freak, I am complimented how I always leave the kitchen gleaming. (Unlike my co-workers unfortunately.)
At home there is stuff everywhere. My partner and I are both terribly messy. I know how to clean efficiently and well, I just never get around to it!

Out of the closet on that issue now.

Chris.
 
I have never thought of appliances...

as being a gay thing. What I have noticed is that people who are into appliances usually have other areas of technical experise. For example, some also like classic cars, other like vintage appliances, and even others like old televisions and radios. Based on this I would say that the people who like appliances have a tendancy to be more technical than most. Not more gay than most.
Like Wishwash states in a earlier posing, I look at appliance people as just people who are into appliances. I don't even think of the gay factor unless someone posts something that bitch slaps it into you. For further information, please read the link provided for this.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bitch+Slap
 
I'm gay and I love appliances and old televisions...

Hi everybody. I'm gay,bear(by attitude and by physical aspect. Not very feminine at all...),Italian and I love washing machines, dishwashers and old television sets (I have more than 300 of those...). I don't think this has anything to do about being gay or not.Perhaps is just a more than average amount of madness! I remember I was just a baby and already loving electcric stuff. I don't think at that time I had any idea of what being gay was about! My boyfriend (big surprise! He is gay just like me...)doesn't care for domestic appliances at all.My first toy washing machine came when I was four! Too bad it's gone long ago!If out there there is someone (gay or not) who shares same interests about appliances and old tv and wants to chat to me then I'll love to hear from him!
([email protected])

Marco
 
I never would have guessed.

LOVE your screen-name Marco..........and welcome! Bet you were just twitching to join!

Did you mean G-- "HERE" or G-- "BEAR", by the way?

I'm not sure I want to know.. LOL
 
Sloppy here too

It wasn't always this way though. Topggle would be so upset if he saw the house he wouldn't even have pearls to clutch lol.
 
A lotta my friends don't keep their dens/caves immaculate either. Too bizzy with life and stuff. Maybe it's an unspoken bear quality lol. But come time for a party, stuff gets shoveled about and appearance is clean.
 
oh WHERE is my lavender boa? and my Candies pumps?

Marco, now did you say that your boyfriend was gay as well?
Always a good pre-requisite.

Or as I always say, I'm not gay, but my boyfriend is. ;-)
 
I myself am straight, young, and have aspergers. My penchant for washers, and appliances in general is sort of an aspie obsession of sorts that grows out of a larger obsession of the mid 20th century. It seems during this time Americans had a sort of optimism and enthuasim about the future that we just simply don't have anymore. The engineering and technology that came from American companies and factories was second to none in the world, be it washers, electronics, automobiles, and just about anything that could be purchased. America was doing amazing things in the 50's and 60's like putting men on the moon, building interstate highways among many others.

Being only 32 years old, I feel I've grown up outside of America's heyday, as foreign brands are commonplace in our homes now, and nothing is made here anymore. Today, instead of people being excited about technology, they are afraid and fearful of it. In the very least, people just refuse to learn about some of the interesting gadgets created lately. In the worst, people avoid technology like it is going to cause them great harm. On the industrial front, when an American creates a breakthrough product, they usually end up selling it to a foreign company to make a quick buck, or if they have made themselves a good name in an industry, they sell off their company in the name of making it big on wall street. Our space program is running a beat-up old fleet of 25 year old obsolete spacecraft, with no thoughts of future replacements. The American spirit for the space program has died out as the public is hardly interested in space exploration anymore, or for funding of any R&D for that matter.

When it comes to my own home, I enjoy decorating and keeping my place looking like id did when during the wonderful mid century times. Yes, we were rather sexist during this time, and washing, cleaning, cooking and other household chores were thought to be "women's work". We must remember however that it was women who assemble our planes, tanks, jeeps and other machinery that kept our troops moving during World War II.

It is also important to remember too that no mater what gender you are, your clothing will still need to be washed, you dwelling will still need to be cleaned up, and you will still need to eat. These are basic necessities of life, and I think we take the machines that make these life necessities easy for granted. I choose not to take the wonderful things we use everyday for granted. They have a long evolution of overcoming design challenges. I enjoy fraternizing and discussing with the other folks here about these wonderful devices who also feel the same way about our modern conveniences. Placing gender roles on who uses appliances is pretty silly in my opinion, especially in this day and age where people remain single, or choose different lifestyle patterns of all types...Just because I am a single male does that mean I should let my home fall turn into a sloppy dump because I don't have a woman around to clean it??? I don't think so!

Like I mentioned before too, I am 32 years old, and grew up outside of the fifties and sixties when it was typically expected to get married to a member of the opposite sex early in life. The thing about this however is that the parents of my generation that followed this social rule were the ones that were getting divorces all the time, so it's obvious that this artifical ideal didn't work too well. No matter what our sexual preference may be, marriage may not be the best thing for a happy life, and there are also many that also choose to wait longer to make sure their relationships can truly withstand the tests of time before they marry. ...And of course their are people like me that are comletely heterosexual, but have terrible social skills and basically have had little, if any luck in playing the dating/relationship games....so therefore we are single. Still, single or not, we still need to do laundry, clean our homes, cook our food, service our automobiles, and all sorts of life's necessities...there's not such thing as "women's work" or a "man's job" to me. We all do what we need to do to get by in this day and age!
 
You don't have to do laundry or cook or service automobi

It is not necessary to do laundry as many laundromats will wash your clothes for you by the pound. I do the laundry myself, but only because I like using the washer and dryer. I don't iron, so shirts and anything else that needs ironing (or dry cleaning) goes to the very excellent dry cleaner/laundry near us.

I remember my mom and grandma ironing sheets, tablecloths, and napkins with an Ironrite mangle, which I thought was a very cool machine. I now think that ironing sheets, even with a mangle, is silly. I don't own a tablecloth, and all of my napkins are made of paper.

It is not at all necessary to cook; that is why refrigerators have freezers and why there are microwave ovens. There are also restaurants and take-out places for when you just don't feel like opening the freezer or operating the microwave.

It is not that necessary to clean. I spot vacuum the carpet every month or so. When the house gets too messy, I call a lesbian couple that has a housecleaning business. I keep the kitchen pretty clean, at least the trash goes out every week or so. Every week or two I spritz the bathroom toilet and tub with chlorine bleach. I wouldn't have to even do that if I would schedule the lesbians to clean every two weeks.

I actually keep the microwave and cook stove spotless. When I was repairing TV's part time, a customer brought in a microwave oven because it was smoking. The problem was that the microwave was so dirty that the grease inside the oven was burning and smoking (and there was a dead mouse inside the cabinet). I charged the customer $100 to clean the microwave inside and out to like new condition. Charging that much was possible because the microwave was only one model year old and at that time a replacement would have cost over $300. I also tested and certified that the microwave leakage was within government limits, which customers thought was VERY official and important at the time, and cost $20 by itself. I made $50 and developed a deep aversion to dirty microwave ovens.

I am not sure what you mean by servicing automobiles; other than pumping gas, I take my truck in to get it serviced. I used to do quite a bit of work on vehicles. I have even overhauled engines -- now I don't have a place to do it and there are far too many doo-dads on newer vehicles that need special equipment and manuals.
 
i'm a self confessed neatfreak

At the young age of 19 i have my own house that i rent from a family friend. This house is immaculate and its always kept that way. I can't stand walking over a carpet thats got bits on it, and i suffer from slight dust allergies so if i start sneezing a lot i know i need to vaccuum. I vaccuum about two times a week.
The hard floors get swept twice a week and steam mopped once. I do on average 5 loads of washing a week (whites, two dark loads, towels, sheets) but it can go up to 7 if i want to wash seat covers and sofa throws etc.
All in all i run a tight ship, i love having people over but guide them away from making mess lol.
Apparently i was really messy when i lived at home (according to mum) but i guess its different now because noone else is going to clean up my mess lol.
Anyway in terms of being gay i don't think its related, i'm not effeminate in anyway, i'm what would be known as a 'bear' in gay circles. I think my obsession with washing machines was started by my gran plonking me down infront of her Hoover Electron 800 from an early age to keep me quiet. From then on i watched every washing machine i encountered and still do lol
Anyways, take care all
Matt
 
Wow, you sound like me! (Except the 19 part, lol!)

You steam-mop? I've been considering that. What kind of machine do you use?
 
My cave

Could use a Felix Ungar, because I am decidedly an Oscar Madison.

Don't get me wrong, I do know how to clean, and can clean, but life, my sometimes painful knees,(and right now, the painful ankle) a level of depression that varies from moderate to severe all conspire against my having a very tidy cave.

With clothing, I have said it before--stains freak me out far more than wrinkles.

If there's a book due from the library tomorrow, and I have already renewed it once, the dishes in the dishwasher can wait to be unloaded until I finish reading.

When I cook a potluck dish for a church or community function, I make sure that all utensils and pans and serving pieces are super clean. Likewise the few times I have entertained since Ma's been gone.

When it's just me, the place doesn't bother me much, and when someone else is over, if there's a place for us to sit down without a stack of books, newspapers, compact discs, or a Russian Blue man-cat, hooray!

As for the sexual orientation and appliance thing, I look at it this way: Maybe I'll (eventually) get a partner who finally thinks that laundry and dishes are as reasonable subjects for conversation as books, movies, music, and food.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Eureka !

Most gay people are NOT interested in washing machines.

Most washing machine lovers ARE gay.

Still mysterious, but undeniably true.
 
...Matty, more a cub in my eyes!

You're only 19!!! Handsome, hairy and honest. Dont change anything apart from your location LOL!!!!!
 
Maytagbear!

My partner has to ask for help how to use the washer!!!!! As much as I love him dearly and we do have lots of other things in common, it would be the icing on the cake if he had your interest in all things laundry! You obviously have all the other attributes if your nickname has anythin g to go by!!!!

Peter
 
My partner has difficulty using the washing machine and can't properly load the dishwasher. He gets frustrated and just slams and pushes the dishwasher door when it won't close because a rack won't go in all the way. I found it easier to do it myself rather than having to reload the dishwasher or even replace broken dishwasher bits. I also found out that a Whirlpool dishwasher has to be pulled out from under the cabinet in order to replace broken rack rollers.
 
ME first SCREW you... is the attitude I always got.

HA!

My ex and I still live together until we sell our house. He was washing some laundry after an especially romantic afternoon while I was at work (Don't look at ME honey! It wasn't me having fun, I guarantee you!)

Anyhoo... sheet with towels with darks..OH MY. Major out-of-balance situation (UHM I meant the machine!) My new GE top-loader had overheated, the motor went into "safety" and there was water all about the floor and in the base of the machine. I was NOT happy. I had some of my own laundry to do and needed to get to sleep very early to arise at 4 am to catch a flight out of town. So much for keeping himn out of my way!

Off came the front panel and with the blow-dryer on "cold" I cooled the motor, and dried the machine's base.

I had a few choice words to say, but held back. Now I do ALL the laundry regardless of how generated.. *SIGH* Is that not the ultimate slap-in-the-face?

I had a great realtionship, one cleaned and fixed, the other dirtied and destroyed. LOL LOL LOL
 
(claws protracted and arched back)
Hey "--PETER--", Step back gurl, you already gots Ur's,
don't be a hog. He's MINE.

Never mind that he lives a days plane ride away.
I was teased by him first!!

As cute and as a H-H-Haaaaiiiiirrry an Otter or Cub you may be vacuuming my living room with my Electrolux upright wearing nothing but a pink and white checkered apron with lace on the edges, I'm sure you wouldn't move to another continent for a 39 y.o., 6-1, 190 lb, sandy blonde Swede like me.

sigh.

sigh.

But in case you would my number is 1-781-7...(computer crash)!
 

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