Friday, 12 October 2012

Stockholm Syndrome: Evil Men

Stockholm Syndrome describes the strange propensity of hostages to feel positively towards their captors – sometimes to the point of defending them. It catalogues the “strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other.” Gay men of Mr Starkey’s age remember well when the British establishment harassed and intimidated gay people, and the state’s reluctance to afford equal marriage rights continues those abuses today.
Mr Pierce, Mr Everett and Mr Starkey – as gay men, I do believe you have a touch of Stockholm Syndrome. The disappointing thing is that, deep down, I’m sure you would love to live in an equal society and enjoy the same rights as everyone else. It’s just so very sad, then, to see you lick the hands that push you down.

Paris Lees in Independent Voices.

Good piece as ever from Paris, but she neglects to state the obvious - gay men who are "anti-gay" are invariably middle/upper class snobs and/or really right-wing.
Mentioning no names [Cough! Mark Simpson].
What they hate is ordinary gay men - ie the rest of us.
Cause; "They're all so frightfully common and vulgar, yah?"
I wish them all dead.

PS Pierce looking slightly rougher there than the photo he uses in his Daily Mail by-line.

3 comments:

  1. Starkey - totally nuts.

    Pierce - can't be bothered to look at what he actually said but whatever

    As for what Rupert Everett was on about in the guardian interview, it wasn't so much that he was talking against the idea of legalising gay marriage, but was complaining that this idea is now being sold as what gay people nowadays should alone aspiring towards. He has a very valid point. And his "I can't think of anything worse" comment was admittedly a habit 'against the cause' if we want to examine what he was saying in a really humourless forensic angle.

    But it didn't strike me that he meant it that way, and Paris Lees decided to ignore the quote at the end of the article where he said he didn't mind Elton and David style heteronormativityFor those who want it ... just not for him.

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    1. I just long for the good old days when creeps like these stayed in the closet.

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  2. It reminds me of the most fantastic American sitcom - with puppets! This wheelchair bound elderly homosexual warning 'there is one place worst than a closet and that is a log cabin'. This becoming increasingly relevant with the upcoming elections in the United States, and the startling increase of right wing homosexuals over here.

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