I enjoyed reading this complaint from a gay man who is sick of being bitch-slapped by gay activists:
The rush to embrace and console every gay man who comes out is infantilizing and condescending—but it’s a script written and promoted by GLAAD and reinforced by a sanctimonious establishment of gay men that rewards those who play by the rules—and punishes those who don’t. Novelist Bret Easton Ellis on why he refuses to take his bitch-slapping lying down.
Ellis reminds us that (“hopefully”) a time may come when sexuality won’t matter, but unfortunately, those who think it should matter are by no means limited to the anti-gay side:
In another five years hopefully this won’t matter, but for now we’re trapped in the times we live in. The reign of The Gay Man as Magical Elf, who whenever he comes out appears before us as some kind of saintly E.T. whose sole purpose is to be put in the position of reminding us only about Tolerance and Our Own Prejudices and To Feel Good About Ourselves and to be a symbol instead of just being a gay dude, is—lamentably—still in media play.
I find the whole thing unbearable. I have never understood why any adult would care about the sexual proclivities of another adult, unless he either wants to have sex with him or her, or the other adult wants to have sex with him or someone he loves or else is a threat to animals or children.
Sexuality between consenting adults is one of those things that does not matter to ordinary people, but matters very much to boring and tedious activists.
Yes boring. Gay is at least as boring as straight.
Straight people are lucky that they don’t have to put up with straight activists.
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“Sexuality between consenting adults is one of those things that does not matter to ordinary people, but matters very much to boring and tedious activists.”
Sadly, I’ve known plenty of “ordinary people” who seem to care about the sexuality of “those boys” who live down the block. They don’t care nearly so much as the boring and tedious activists, mind you.
Special interest groups become self-perpetuating after a while because the real goal is boring. When that NBA player announced he was gay, most people just shrugged and immediately forgot about him again.
That’s a giant boring win for everyone “fighting” for gay rights.
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Yes boring. Gay is at least as boring as straight.
I am reminded of what Kinky Friedman, my candidate for Governor of Texas back in 2006 said on the issue. IIRC, Kinky said,”I am in favor of gay marriage. Gays have the right to be as miserable as straights.
Excellent points. I would, however, dispute that there are no straight activists.
What about Maggie Gallagher, Bryan Fischer and the Pope?
The Pope is a Gay activist in straight drag.