This article is such a steaming pile of 1950s heterosexist claptrap that deserves to be treated with as much ridicule as contempt.

In the spirit of the AOL Way, here's a Top 5 List of things that are wrong with this article:

1) "I didn't try hard enough to talk to any actual gay flight attendants, but here's what some straight guy I know thinks!"

Seriously, Heather? Seriously? Oh my God.

Did you ever think that perhaps your gay colleagues thought that you might not be entitled to parade them out like a sequin-clad Uncle Tom?

And, given your impressive use of 1980s terms like "gays" and "sexual preference", perhaps your colleagues thought that you might well just be a clueless straight person who just Does Not Get It?

2) People are people, not adjectival nouns

Hi, welcome to not-the-1980s. We say "gay people" not "gays". We don't talk about "blacks" or "Japanese" any more, we talk about "black people" or "Japanese people". Since language informs the way we think about things, this helps to remind us that gay people are people and not just wanton sex-hungry manwhores.

3) It's not a preference

"Sexual preference" implies that people decide to be gay. Only ignorant people think that. Don't sound like an ignorant person.

4) Gay people all have the same

Of course every gay boy dreams of being a flight attendant! Either that or a hairstylists, or maybe a fashion designer. They certainly couldn't have any of our straight jobs. Newsflash: still no longer the 1950s. About one in ten people is gay. There aren't that many flight attendants, hairstylists or fashion designers in the world.

5) All gay people love performing. And musicals.

Wait, forget the musicals, I'm getting off track. It may be news, but gay people love perfoming about as much as straight people do. It's as irritating for me to be pigeonholed as as Barbra-esque Performa! as it is for my straight guy musical theatre friends when people assume they're gay.

Special Bonus Point 6) Gay people are only interested in sex!

LOL! Way to perpetuate a ridiculous stereotype there, bucko. That makes you look like either a clueless moron, an insensitive idiot or a prejudiced bigot. Which one is it?

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