Anderson: I dated girls when I was 12, so I could meet their brothers

This is beginning to remind me of the Onion article, "Newly Out Gay Man Overdoing It."

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• All of which belies any pretense that he has been out all along.

• He is really unattractive. Is he better looking in RL? I don't get why people swoon over him.

• One word, r2...money.

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• Why did Walter Cronkite date girls when he was 12?

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• He was trying to hook up with guys when he was 12?

• Casper cares, now be nice!

• I thought he said "when I was like 12" to add some humor to the situation. I think he was probably much older. He's said before that he dated girls in college.

• [quote]He's said before that he dated girls in college. Dated or had sex with?

• I didnt think it was possible, but I am even less interested in him now than I was before he came out.

• Why, R9?

• R8 well, he's said "dated" so I don't know if that means "had sex with". Maybe he just did it to appease his mother. Who knows?

• R10 I'm not sure why. Maybe because I never really paid much attention to him to begin with. But he just seems so dull. I would think this wold make him more interesting, but it doesn't.

• Oh Anderson, shut up. You were in the closet for eons, but now that you're out, you just can't stop talking about it. Fucking hypocrite.

• Either someone loves Anderson to death or they despise him around here. What's with all of the threads?

• Anderson, enough.

• So what if he wants to talk all about it now. He realizes he made a mistake by worrying about "privacy" like Jodie Foster and felt it was more important to be visible. That's how life is, you learn and grow and change. I'm glad he's out and I'm glad he talks about it almost 24/7.

• R12, that's how I feel about Jodie Foster. I feel the opposite about Anderson though. He's great.

• So did Anderson have sex with women before he came out, the way some other gay celebrities say they did?

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• Anderson looks like the type of whore that would attempt that very same thing. Sneaky.

• He's probably not the first gay dude that did it, jeez.

• Mistake talking about privacy, R16? Try "lie". The hysteria from defenders of his no comment went on and on about how private he is.. And what was his last excuse/lie used right through the moment he was asked by the college student that he dismissed about the question? Safety overseas? Fear of being killed or gay bashed? So much for that. And so much for his dignified low key coming out. Miss Thang seems desperate for another talk show.

• Uh, he never lied about a thing. He didn't talk about his sexuality, but he never lied or bearded.

• What r19 said.

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• The problem with Anderson is that he had an ultra-rich, ultra-elite upbringing. He tries to shift the focus off of that by being an average American guy. John Kennedy Jr tried to do the same thing when he decided to go "slumming" and live in Tribeca. But it's impossible to disguise the fact that they didn't live normal childhoods and can't relate to the average person.

• Is Anderson's constant gay shit killing his career? He's turned into such a pervy little queen since his coming out. He's trying to still be taken as a serious journalist? He's becoming Kathy Griffin. "I'm more of a stuffing man." Really, Anderson? Really?

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• [quote]He's turned into such a pervy little queen since his coming out. Since coming out?? He's always been a nasty freak!

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• "Is Anderson's constant gay shit killing his career?" It doesn't matter. He has enough money that he doesn't have to work. If he can't get work as a journalist, he'll get work as a talk show host or a game show host. If he can't get work at that, he'll do cameos on tv shows.

• And he still can't mention the guy he's lived with for four years. Jodie at least mentioned her partner.

• Before DL I never knew people were obsessed with Anderson Cooper. To me, he was just that CNN guy that traveled to disaster area. But now that I've clicked on a few of his clips (I've never seen his other shows) I think he comes across as quite charming. He's probably feeling quite free now. If Oprah can talk about her childhood rapes and her Stedman, and Kathy lee could obsess over her family and drink like an alcoholic every morning, if Uncle Poodle from the Honey Boo Boo show can talk about sending a man to jail fro giving him HIV, then what's so bad about AC talking about his life as a gay man. It's a given if you have a talk show, you end up talking about your personal life.

• Nice. Calling an out gay man "pervy". Before people complained that he didn't want to be seen as gay, now that he's out and happy to talk about it, it's a problem. R29, you haven't considered that maybe Anderson's partner doesn't want to be mentioned perhaps? Thank you R30 for the smart comment.

• "you haven't considered that maybe Anderson's partner doesn't want to be mentioned perhaps?" Maybe. And maybe not.