Netflix Knows I'm Gay

OK, so, I got a little email today from Netflix, touting all the bells and whistles they have added to their new-fangled "Community" section. So, I jumped over to check it out, even though I hardly ever use any of those features ... seriously, does anyone?
Anyway, one of the new features is a list of, well, lists, made up of movies that you may want to watch. Now, being the all-knowing "movie guy" that I am, I don't really need Netflix (or Amazon, or Imdb ...) to tell me what to watch, but I took a gander anyway and here is what I found, verbatim. (And, I might add, I did not make any of this up ... well, except for my catty parenthetical comments):

• "GLBT Flicks-O-Rama" (I love anything that's "O-Rama".)
• "Great Gay Movies!!" (Gay movies so great, they deserve not one, but two exclamation marks!!)
• "Fabulously Gay Cinema" (Like, there could be any other?)
• "Gay Things to Make You Laugh" (Not at, with; you know, like drag queen nuns or leathermen in buttless chaps.)
• "The G-List" (Minimalist.)
• "I'm Gay, So What?" (Out and proud.)
• "The Pantheon of Gay Cinema" (Elitist.)
• "GAY MOVIES WORTH SEEING" (DEMANDING.)
• "Gay Family Jewels" (Naughty.)
• "*** Rainbow Cinema ***" (I assume those asterisks represent sequins.)
• "Steve's Great Gay Films" (If you've seen Steel Magnolias, you know why this is funny.)
• But my absolute favorite is: "My Fave SAL MINEO Movies" (which, somehow, is only three movies long ...)

Now, I know that Netflix has all kinds of computer gizmos to track what movies you like, rent, rate, et cetera. But still, it's just a bit ... unnerving to be pegged so succinctly and yet so accurately. Is it because I'm in the midst of an Ugly Betty marathon? Perhaps it was that recent double feature of Puppetry of the Penis and Private Dicks: Men Exposed that tipped them off. I know: it was the Hugh Jackman Oklahoma! that did me in.
I can just see the poor minimum wage Netflix employee with the Carpal Tunnel ripping open the latest red envelope from me and saying, "What? Another gay movie?"

Aside from this ... profiling, I highly recommend Netflix to any and all movie fans. For more information, and to sign up for a free trial subscription, click on their ad located in the sidebar.