Posted on 01/14/2005 7:57:27 AM PST by madprof98
Woo hoo! I've made the big time. Last month, the website Free Republic featured a thread about my Nov. 18 column, "Queers Who Don't Act Right." You probably don't know much about Free Republic unless you are a right-wing lunatic. Free Republic is so far right that wing-nut gay muckraker Matt Drudge and Lucianne Goldberg, one of the architects of the Clinton-Monica Lewinsky brouhaha, both left the site in 1999 because it was too extreme, even for them.
In the years since, the site has become the contemporary version of a marathon meeting of the old John Birch Society and the KKK. Most recently, Free Republic was in the news when John Corsi, one of the Swift Boat Veterans who authored a book attacking John Kerry, turned out to post embarrassingly racist messages there. (Of course, he argued his racist insults were all "a joke." Talk about your Clintonian rhetoric.) The site also was in the news recently because someone correctly posted that Dan Rather had relied on phony documents to impute President Bush's National Guard service.
Free Republic is so extreme that it's a blast to read. Don't bother to explore the site with the idea of posting an alternative perspective or to correct facts. Your post will simply be deleted, despite its owner's celebration of freedom of speech. The site has no hesitation in reprinting copyrighted material, like my column, even though the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times both successfully sued to stop such theft. In other words, as is generally true of the lunatic far right, the truth, free speech and the law only matter when they support their point of view.
Of course, Freepers, as the creepy wing-nuts on the site are called, were not alone in being outraged by my column. I received quite a lot of mail, mainly from other gay people, questioning my argument that LA Fitness at Ansley Mall overreacted when it closed its sauna because of some occasional sex and reopened it with a new picture window overlooking the locker room. As an update, I might add that the window has effectively eliminated unseen sexual interactions inside the sauna and made room for another, more open form of sex between people on either side of the window: exhibitionism and voyeurism.
Most of my correspondents argued that the occasional discovery of sex in the sauna merited involvement by the police and the health department, reconstruction of the sauna and a report by one of the local TV stations. And, as usual, they concluded that because I called that overreacting, I must favor sex in public spaces. No matter that I said I find the behavior annoying. To be righteous, I must find it -- what? -- criminally actionable.
I wasn't surprised by the reaction. Sex troubles people more than anything. That's why Clinton was impeached for lying about a blowjob, while Bush was re-elected despite lying about a war that has killed thousands. Gay people's oppression is the result of their sex lives, so it's not surprising that they are hypersensitive to anything that might add to the picture of deviance. But it has become obvious that the very effort to make all deviance disappear and to assimilate -- to marry, for example -- increases prejudice.
The Freepers, of course, took outrage over my column to dizzy heights, fabricating arguments I did not make. This began with the man who posted it, "madpro98." He said that I dismissed "all sexual conventions, including common decency, as so much homophobia." Actually, I wrote no such thing. Then, of course, the Freepers concluded that the case of LA Fitness means every gay man is a sauna whore. For example, "Sender" writes: "Does anyone else think it's strange that gay men often have sex in a public toilet stall? ... Even if we had unisex public restrooms, somehow I can't imagine a man and a woman eyeing one another while washing their hands, then just jumping in the stall for a go."
The writer obviously has never been to Buckhead on a Saturday night. But what cracks me up is that the Freepers are so anxious to bash someone like me that they don't even realize when they are supporting a contrary argument. For example, "buffyt" quoted my statement that I don't like "stumbling upon any sex scene to which I have not been invited." Then she riffed obsessively about heterosexual couples at Mardi Gras "coupling all over the place" while the police ignore them. Exactly. Heterosexuals spoil the view with public sexual interactions every bit as much as homosexuals, arguably more, when they can find a place to do it. Nobody followed up on that post, of course.
I'm not going to quote the mind-boggling illogics and endless sophomoric fag-bashing (despite arguing they aren't homophobic). But I will thank "Jack Black," who wrote: "I think this was very well written. He is writing for the audience of radical homosexuals as one, so I have trouble twisting my thoughts enough to get to his point of view, but I still think the writing is good." Kiss me, dude!
Cliff Bostock holds a Ph.D. in depth psychology. Write him at cliff.bostock@ creativeloafing.com.
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That's how I feel about this dork
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
Follow up snitfit to a previous article by a perv.
I remember that article. The guy is out to lunch. I like that kind - they are their own caricature*. No comments even necessary! (Haven't read the thread yet, it's probably good.)
Let me and DirtyHarryY2K know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.)
*That word looks grievously wrong but spellcheck didn't think so. Anyone know for sure?
This "man" gets an erection looking at men,likes to suck d***,
bend over and have "men".....well,you know,
and he calls freepers creepy?
Main Entry:1car£i£ca£ture
Pronunciation:*ker-i-k*-*ch*r, -*ch*r, -*ty*r, -*t*r, -*ka-ri-
Function:noun
Etymology:Italian caricatura, literally, act of loading, from caricare to load, from Late Latin carricare
Date:1712
1 : exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics
2 : a representation especially in literature or art that has the qualities of caricature
3 : a distortion so gross as to seem like caricature
–car£i£ca£tur£al \*ker-i-k*-*ch*r-*l, -*ch*r-, -*ty*r-, -*t*r-, -*ka-ri-\ adjective
–car£i£ca£tur£ist \*ker-i-k*-*ch*r-ist, -*ch*r-, -*ty*r-, -*t*r-, -*ka-ri-\ noun
synonyms CARICATURE, BURLESQUE, PARODY, TRAVESTY mean a comic or grotesque imitation. CARICATURE implies ludicrous exaggeration of the characteristic features of a subject *caricatures of politicians in cartoons*. BURLESQUE implies mockery especially through giving a serious or lofty subject a frivolous treatment *a nightclub burlesque of a trial in court*. PARODY applies especially to treatment of a trivial or ludicrous subject in the exactly imitated style of a well-known author or work *a witty parody of a popular novel*. TRAVESTY implies that the subject remains unchanged but that the style is extravagant or absurd *this production is a travesty of the opera*.
<< I guess I'm a right-wing lunatic.
I can live with that... >>
Me too.
I'm also a bit of a right-wing lunatic and somewhat of a whacko -- and contribute more intellectual fire power on FR than on any website on earth -- and some of my threads are embarrasing.
[Particularly when I'm froth-and-foam-flecked after Limeys
I love it!ROFL!!! Me too.
It's when you can't sink any lower.
not everyone who thinks that two men ***** one another is sick.
Yes they do...they just haven't come to realize it YET!
Sure am glad the Log Cabbie not longer hangs around here inviting other FReepers into his sauna.
"What the heck is "depth psychology"? Sounds like a made-up degree--perhaps off the internet?"
There is no such specialty in psychology. He made it up, or got it from some matchbook-cover internet site. I suspect he imagines it to be like "deep ecology," which is also a fabricated "science" used to cover up an extreme political ideology.
Members of deviant communities, like homosexuals, or new agers, for example, often paradoxically affect the trappings of the mainstream, in a tawdry attempt to retrieve some credibility.
I just had an idea. I'm gonna move out to northern Cali and start an Institute of Breadth Psychology. Betcha no one's staked that claim yet!
Have you ever heard of Lum & Abner of Pine Ridge, Arkansas? Lum wanted to go back to school in order to attain a " higher level of ignorance "
PhD in Depth Psychology...
Maybe he was joking. You know, Tongue-in-Cheek as it were. In his case, PhD might be a conflict in terms, i.e.
Piled Higher and Deeper...
barfmao...
The answer to gay population control(Aids) I always thought it very funny how animals don't engage in this type of perverted sicko behavior, yet some so called humans oblige themselves. Maybe the animals are much much smarter than some people think. Note: As to the mentally imbalanced Psych,,He can "Get the F--- Otta here." The American Patriots, excluding the trolls(demo-commies) could care less what this (besumpthin) has to say or comment about. P.S. to all those Freepers who desire the deciphering of a (besumpthin) private email only. Gay peoples oppression? When one chooses a lifestyle that is detrimental to themselves there will always be dire consequences."Oppression?" NSNR "For God and Country"
In case you haven't been pinged, you're mentioned in the article.
Eddiebear, here we use < and > instead of [ and ].
(Took me some adjusting as well).
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