The nodding-dog enthusiasm with which virtually every Western institution and publication has embraced Sochi as an opportunity to lambast backward Russians, and more importantly to demonstrate their own gay-friendly decency, has been extraordinary. Every day brings news of another corporation or outlet waving the gay flag, ostensibly to express fury with Putin’s recent passing of a deeply authoritarian law that forbids the promotion of homosexuality to under-18s, but really as a way of saying: ‘Look at me! I like gays! I am good!’
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And now, through Sochi, the Culture Wars in general and the politicisation of gayness specifically have gone global. A West bereft of its old economic clout and lacking serious ideological beliefs now attempts to assert its moral authority in global affairs through tangential cultural issues, and most notably through being gay-friendly. So the UN is forever drawing up lists of non-gay-friendly countries, Washington has threatened to cut off aid to countries that are not gay-friendly, and Russia is today demonised not on the basis of its economic manoeuvring or ideological positioning but because of its attitude to gays. Where once the world was divided between the civilised and the savage, now it’s split between the gay-friendly and the homophobic. Welcome to the era of Queer Imperialism. How long before a Western nation goes so far as to bomb a country that is insufficiently gay-friendly?
And now, through Sochi, the Culture Wars in general and the politicisation of gayness specifically have gone global. A West bereft of its old economic clout and lacking serious ideological beliefs now attempts to assert its moral authority in global affairs through tangential cultural issues, and most notably through being gay-friendly. So the UN is forever drawing up lists of non-gay-friendly countries, Washington has threatened to cut off aid to countries that are not gay-friendly, and Russia is today demonised not on the basis of its economic manoeuvring or ideological positioning but because of its attitude to gays. Where once the world was divided between the civilised and the savage, now it’s split between the gay-friendly and the homophobic. Welcome to the era of Queer Imperialism. How long before a Western nation goes so far as to bomb a country that is insufficiently gay-friendly?
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This''ll send the politically vacuous conformist gayists MAD!!!
Note Pink News readers predictably jump up and down, but not one actually engages with anything he wrote.
They just have lame sweary hissyfits, go for ye olde "He must be a closet case" idiotic retort, or - my favourite - "You can tell by that stare that he's a homophobe."
PS Adds obligatory; "Whilst I don't agree with everything he says..." rejoinder.
Oh Christ! The Daily Telegraph's god-bothering homophobe-in-chief Cristina Odone sums up the case for the opposition. You really could not make this up.
Bigots against Putin!
Bigots against Putin!
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I agree 100 percent with him.
ReplyDeleteI don't think anyone gets it. Whilst many are being hypocritical and ridiculous in portraying the West as a gay paradise and demonising Russia, I don't see the problem with waving the rainbow flag and saying "I like Gays". It is instructive to notice the UK institutions remaining silent, such as the BBC, the Church of England, the Royal Family, the IOC, most sporting regulators... And it will be instructive to notice those institutions waving a rainbow flag now, who forget all about homophobia and homophobic attacks as soon as the Olympic flame is extinguished in Sochi.
ReplyDelete^Good point! Theyre still cunts but good point!
ReplyDeleteBut even if the protests are shallow and a bit mote-and-beamish (Biblical reference there!) and unrealistic and bandwagonish, I must say, as someone whose understanding of what he was was very much focused by newspaper reports of the Wolfenden Rpeort in 1956 and the ensuing tabloid mania about 'evil men', and whose first sight of someone he knew was gay was of some poor soul being prosecuted for buggery or gross indecency in Luton Borough Court in the early 1960s (I was a cub reporter), I think it's LOVELY to see this wave of pro-gay cheerleading. It may be just flavour of the month, but it's still Savlon to the old wounds.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Brendan O'Neill is just finding a reason to have a long rant about pro gay actions like people waving rainbow flags. Saying he "gets it" is arrant nonsense.
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