Faggotry

My Facebook friend, Hollywood writer Charles Winecoff, has a piece today about the shrieks and flying hairpins attending another gay writer's astounding observation that audiences might not take seriously in romantic leading man roles gay actors such as Will &Grace's Jack MacFarland...I mean Sean Hayes.




One of the more nasty and hysterical responses (gee, is that a gay stereotype?) came from the creator of the new TV series Glee, about the misfit kids in a high school glee club. His name is Ryan Murphy. (Glee is on Fox; isn't that some kind of Progressive treason?). I watched one episode of Glee a few weeks ago, one written and directed by Mr. Murphy. Told me everything I needed to know.

Kurt is a wildly queeny countertenor whose flamboyance gets him in trouble at school. His father, Burt, is a regular guy; could be your local plumber. Kurt is out to him and he is a supportive father. Burt, a widower, is going out with a widow, the mother of football star and Gleeclub member Finn. The relationship grows to the point where Finn and his mother move in with Burt...and Kurt. Kurt has a crush on Finn and becomes jealous when Finn and Burt bond over football.

The living arrangement, however, puts Finn and Kurt in the same bedroom.

Kurt decides to decorate the room for them both and creates a lavishly appointed space. When Finn, who knows of Kurt's attraction for him, declares the room "faggy", he is overheard by Burt, who proceeds make a morally outraged speech about his "poisonous hate" and expels him from the house, declaring that if he loses Finn's mom over this, so be it. I found the overdone self-righteous PC rant almost unbearable.

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Well, the room was indeed faggy. Very. As is Kurt. Very. When the glee club splits by gender to do two different acts, Kurt goes with the girls. QED.

As well, Kurt's adolescent narcissism apparently leaves no room for the reality of his "beloved". He overwhelms Finn with his own rampant gay idea of what Finn should like, aka, what Kurt likes. Anyone with half a brain would know that this would not be Finn's idea of home. Maybe Dad could have pointed that out to his poor little victimized boy as a clue for future lovers.*

So here's the rules: Kurt, as the oppressed fairy, gets to be and do whatever he likes and should not be asked to take any consequences or care about other people's differences from him, who is always expecting them to kowtow to his difference. Finn, an ordinary adolescent straight male, surrounded by both faggotty decor in his new home as well as the unwanted desire, in his bedroom, of his mother's boyfriend's son, should be cut no slack for reacting as you would expect, but is to serve as shamed fodder for the overheated moralism of his formerly dad-like buddy Burt.


Bullshit, from beginning to end. And it reveals Mr. Murphy's histrionic (there's that word again) moral code: I am a gay victim and so I can be and do whatever I want, no matter how unreal and selfish, and they'll be hell to pay for you if you don't comply.

From a shrink's point of view, I would clock Daddy's outburst as a case of reaction formation, where you respond to something strong in the opposite direction of how you more deeply feel, and which deep feelings you repress because they are unacceptable. What Dad like Burt would not want to have Finn for a son rather than Kurt?

The official LGBT attitude toward men, actual men, the bearers of masculinity, is hopelessly split. On the one hand, it is a crime to suggest that gay men are not masculine. That is a "cruel stereotype" (despite, for example, eight years of Emmy awarded and gay-written evidence to the contrary via Will & Grace). On the other hand, since masculinity is just a culturally constructed oppressive performance, anyone can do it. You can be born a female, have your breasts removed, take steroids and, with vagina still intact, become Mr. International Leather 2010. Man schman: what the big deal?

I mean really, once people know that in your personal life what gets you off is sucking dick and buttfucking with guys, are they really going to forget that when you're on stage making believe you're a phallic threat to Kim Basinger?

You might not like facts, Mr. Murphy et al., but why attack someone just because he points it out? LGBT faggotry.

*A pleasant surprise. Huffington Post (!) film critic Scott Mendelson agrees, but in far more polite language.