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steven lightfoot's avatar

Your comment 'Gay men are notoriously superficial and narcissistic' I think is astute, and I would expand it to say that many single people of all types who get into their 40s are that way too (including me to some degree, I only married at 48). Part of the issue in not having a family in a normal time frame is that you find yourself with too much money and too much free time, and its easy to fall into bad habits. You eventually realize that life without family can be empty of meaning if you aren't careful, so 'activism' appears a a solution to this crisis of meaninglessness. With more and more single adults out there (and fewer kids and families, which is the current state of nation) there are more and more 'activists' and maybe fewer actual problems to solve. So there are lots and lots of St Georges out there, on a mission, and now just causing trouble.

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Thomas J. Snodgrass's avatar

Once the alphabet people began a full-frontal assault on children and parents and families, the sleeping dragon started to awaken. This was an incredibly stupid thing to do. I disagree with the OP; the enmity towards same-sex attraction is being stoked, because it is now increasingly coupled in the public's mind with all manner of horrors and perversions. Look at your typical pride parade, and you will see what I mean.

My own public library has a section stocked with numerous pieces of child pornography. If I were to be found with this material on my person, I might very well spend the rest of my life in prison. I know why this is, since I have spoken at length with the person who demanded it be there; the head of our library system, who gives every indication of being mentally ill. But he has been shielded up to now by a sort of "gay privilege", which might be starting to crumble. We will see.

And to make matters worse, there are proposals among the modern alphabet crowd to pass legislation banning heterosexuality and "straight" families completely. This is the height of hubris, and it will fail.

But while this is going on, it has been true for years that homosexual males and lesbians have been disinvited from an increasing number of pride parades and other pride events. They are viewed as old-fashioned, and boring and old. The trans people, and increasingly extreme paraphilias, are the current rage, and they must be worshipped, without the distraction of old saggy aging fags and dykes. And there have been all kinds of claims that male homosexuals and lesbians are some sort of odd bigots because of their undecipherable longings.

In this, things have come full circle. The "treatment" of Alan Turing and homosexuals in Iran is essentially modern-day "gender affirming care". Turing committed suicide as a result. And Iran leads the world statistically in the number of transitioning treatments, since the alternative is execution.

It will be interesting to see how things progress. Because, it is my understanding, as a somewhat "tolerant" straight male observer, that a fury against the alphabet crowd and their over-reach is brewing among the public. This preening pretentious minority might very well reap what they have sown.

Just observe the school walkouts in Canada. Look at the Bud Light boycott. Look at the Disney boycott. This is not against the more extreme part of the alphabet agenda, but against ALL the "gains" this movement has made over the last few decades.

When I was much younger, I had a number of conversations with World War II veterans. When they discovered gay men in their ranks, they just fragged them, or threw them over the side of a ship underway to drown. They very matter-of-fact told me, "It was the kindest thing to do to those misfits". I was horrified at the time, but I understand it better now at this point in my life. Believe me, we are not very far away from returning to that period. The alphabet people have been pushing very hard for a very long time. And we might see blowback. These attitudes are just below the surface, even now.

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