Your essay is textbook bigotry dressed up in pseudo-intellectual language, and it's pathetic that you think anyone would mistake your hatred for analysis. This isn't reasoned critique—it's a homophobe's rage that LGBTQ+ people won't stay invisible and ashamed.
You open by sneering at queer identity itself, then construct elaborate justifications for your disgust. The academic references don't hide what this really is: fury that gay people refuse to disappear. Your obsession with trans people using language like "grooming" and "mutilation" reveals the depth of your bigotry most clearly. This is the same moral panic playbook used against gay people for decades, recycled because outright homophobia became less socially acceptable.
The Trump apologetics are nauseating. Dancing to the Village People doesn't erase the systematic rollback of LGBTQ+ protections, the military ban, anti-gay judicial appointments, and legitimized discrimination through "religious freedom" exemptions. Your statistical manipulation about happiness surveys is equally dishonest—essentially arguing that if oppressed people show resilience, oppression doesn't exist.
What you really want is for LGBTQ+ people to go back to being closeted, grateful, and invisible. Every line drips with nostalgia for when queer people knew their place and didn't challenge your comfort. You're weaponizing legitimate policy discussions to advance pure hatred while real people lose their families, jobs, and safety because of exactly the societal rejection you're promoting.
While you craft intellectual justifications for bigotry, LGBTQ+ youth are dying by suicide at rates multiple times higher than their peers. But sure, let's worry about whether Pride parades are modest enough for your taste.
This isn't brave contrarianism—it's cowardice. You lack the honesty to own your hatred directly, so you dress it up in academic language. You're not fooling anyone who's paying attention. This is bigotry, pure and simple, and no amount of pseudo-intellectual posturing changes that fundamental truth.
Thank you for showing the complete retardation of the, I presume, gay Left. You don't really address any of my points and your reading comprehension is nil. Your understanding of political philosophy and indeed the beliefs of any one outside of your bubble is nonexistent.
There is no such thing as an LGBTQ+ person. It's another anti-concept, and equivocation made for cannon fodder like you. There are no "my statistics" on happiness, they are the result of a survey and the person commenting on them is Nate Silver, a respected statistical analyst. Who is like me openly gay.
Denying trans people a place in the military is not an attack on gay rights. It's saying taxpayers should not be on the hook for $200,000 procedures and a lifetime of drugs, and that someone so dependent on constant medical intervention doesn't make a good soldier.
Suicide rates actua;;y go up when you mutilate gay children and convince them that they are trans. YOU ARE KILLING GAY CHILDREN. Just as you round up black and brown kids and sell them to Randi Weingartner in exchange for contributions to your candidates.
Hi Bruce- interesting article as usual. I’m off Facebook as it was getting too crazy. Hope you’re well!
Me too. On X more instead. Not sure that isn't crazy too.
I’m on X too! Come find me and I’ll look for you. @emilytfox is my handle.
Your essay is textbook bigotry dressed up in pseudo-intellectual language, and it's pathetic that you think anyone would mistake your hatred for analysis. This isn't reasoned critique—it's a homophobe's rage that LGBTQ+ people won't stay invisible and ashamed.
You open by sneering at queer identity itself, then construct elaborate justifications for your disgust. The academic references don't hide what this really is: fury that gay people refuse to disappear. Your obsession with trans people using language like "grooming" and "mutilation" reveals the depth of your bigotry most clearly. This is the same moral panic playbook used against gay people for decades, recycled because outright homophobia became less socially acceptable.
The Trump apologetics are nauseating. Dancing to the Village People doesn't erase the systematic rollback of LGBTQ+ protections, the military ban, anti-gay judicial appointments, and legitimized discrimination through "religious freedom" exemptions. Your statistical manipulation about happiness surveys is equally dishonest—essentially arguing that if oppressed people show resilience, oppression doesn't exist.
What you really want is for LGBTQ+ people to go back to being closeted, grateful, and invisible. Every line drips with nostalgia for when queer people knew their place and didn't challenge your comfort. You're weaponizing legitimate policy discussions to advance pure hatred while real people lose their families, jobs, and safety because of exactly the societal rejection you're promoting.
While you craft intellectual justifications for bigotry, LGBTQ+ youth are dying by suicide at rates multiple times higher than their peers. But sure, let's worry about whether Pride parades are modest enough for your taste.
This isn't brave contrarianism—it's cowardice. You lack the honesty to own your hatred directly, so you dress it up in academic language. You're not fooling anyone who's paying attention. This is bigotry, pure and simple, and no amount of pseudo-intellectual posturing changes that fundamental truth.
Thank you for showing the complete retardation of the, I presume, gay Left. You don't really address any of my points and your reading comprehension is nil. Your understanding of political philosophy and indeed the beliefs of any one outside of your bubble is nonexistent.
There is no such thing as an LGBTQ+ person. It's another anti-concept, and equivocation made for cannon fodder like you. There are no "my statistics" on happiness, they are the result of a survey and the person commenting on them is Nate Silver, a respected statistical analyst. Who is like me openly gay.
Denying trans people a place in the military is not an attack on gay rights. It's saying taxpayers should not be on the hook for $200,000 procedures and a lifetime of drugs, and that someone so dependent on constant medical intervention doesn't make a good soldier.
Suicide rates actua;;y go up when you mutilate gay children and convince them that they are trans. YOU ARE KILLING GAY CHILDREN. Just as you round up black and brown kids and sell them to Randi Weingartner in exchange for contributions to your candidates.