Baby When We're Grinding, I Get So Excited... Feel A Little Poke Coming Through On Yoooou: Homoeroticism FTW in 2009

This afternoon I stumbled upon this brilliant clip from the TruTV series The Principal's Office where seniors Logan and Brandon were brought into the principal's office to defend the "out of control" dancing that caused the school dance to GRIND (omg! pun!) to a halt.

Things get truly hilarious when the boys start acting out "is this too close?" scenarios as the principal squirms in his chair:



My first thoughts immediately go to the best song about smuggling a boner onto the dance floor ever: "Too Close" by Next.

For those unfamiliar, here are some Sims characters dancing to the Blue cover of the song:



For the record, I'd be ALL ABOUT grinding if I could pass through my partner's body like a ghost and have ribbons of light floating from my arms when I waved them around like a peppy cheerleader.

But do you know what gets me more excited than the prospect of phantasmagoric grinding? That this Principal's Office clip just furthers my hypothesis that Homoeroticism is going to be HUGE in 2009. HUGE, I TELL YOU!

Videogum's Gabe wrote an awesome post on the implications of homoerotic love in Brody Jenner's new be my best friend reality audition show Bromance (and as I was looking for the link to that post, found they also posted on this Principal's Office clip too--Great to see we're on the same page of the internet, guys!)

And you know what? I am ALL ABOUT this rise in homoeroticism. I know it's easy to make an argument that acting gay as a joke is just mocking gay people--and yes, to a degree, it does (at least at this moment in our culture). But I think it works on more than just that level. The "just kidding" aspect of it gives guys a safe space to express their feelings for each other in a way that is currently socially unacceptable. And eventually, as the "joke" gets enacted over and over again, it stops being novel and funny and then people forget they're kidding and it's just two dudes who love each other and that's TOTALLY OK.

The more 2009 becomes the Year of Homoeroticism, the more opportunities men will have for man-on-man platonic love--which is more than fair since female friendships have DOMINATED the social radar for years now. (Hello, Sex and the City franchise!) It's about time male friendship took a positive bump in the numbers!

Even my gchat partner in crime Jeremy agrees:

me: homoeroticism ftw
i'm predicting now that homoeroticism is going to be HUGE in 2009
jeremy: oh yea
it's gonna be a breakout year
me: seriously bromance is huge
jeremy: everywhere you look it's gonna be like bam:

bam:
BAM!
jeremy: lol sorry
me: HAHA
jeremy: buut not sorry

Who could be sorry about a beautiful thing like that?!

I rest my case: Homoeroticism FTW in 2009!