Ethical paragon Paris...oh, no, sorry...Perez Hilton showing his support
in an extremely (!) touched-up photo. Actual PH here.
And the whole theme of "H8".
The endless tugging about gay marriage.
Hatred is an ineradicable and necessary part of the human emotional range. As homos like to say, "Get used to it." The No H8ers are in fact a prime example. Ask them to talk about Mormons or The Christian Right or Republicans or GW Bush or Dick Cheney. You wanna see hate? Continuous showings. Instantaneous. No waiting.
I H8 NO H8 for another couple of reasons.
It's whining, dishonest and manipulative in the extreme, grossly self-serving, puerile, and lacking in self-respect. Counting coup instead of actually taking on your opponent like a man. Playing the moral victim while immorally lying barefaced and repetitively. Taking it as a very un grown up article of faith that if you disagree with us you must hate us and therefore be --in that upchuck-provoking modern phrase-- "a bad person."
The originators' website explains the images. This is necessary, because I misinterpreted their intention. I thought the intent of the duct tape was to tell H8ful H8ing H8erz to shut up.
Photos feature subjects with duct tape over their mouths, symbolizing their voices being silenced by Prop 8 (bolding mine) and similar legislation around the world, with "NOH8" painted on one cheek in protest.
Their voices being silenced? Are you kidding? As more than one wag has pointed out, the Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name (a phrase bequeathed to us by uber-creep Lord Alfred Douglas) now can't shut the hell up.
When Jack (Malebranche) Donovan identified the ugly threesome of gayness in Androphilia, he listed group victim identity, feminist-driven ambiguity (at least) about masculinity, and lockstep leftwing politics. While painfully accurate, I find, as time goes on, that they are simply three aspects of something else. I mean, where do you find any one of them without the other two?
Well, Islam, I guess: group victim identity without the other two. Otherwise....
2 comments:
Maybe it's dukkha tape.
jpm
The gay left is very fond of "being silenced". Back when I was at the U. of Pittsburgh, there was an issue about whether the administration wanted to extend the benefits that spoused employees got to s-s domestic partners as well. The Chancellor of the school had many meetings with faculty, graduate groups, etc., but elected not to meet with the political LGBT student group. The latter decided that since they were thus not being heard, they were "being silenced", and there were odd demonstrations where groups of young lesbians would be seen sitting around the student union building with duct tape over their mouths for hours.
This action reminded me of the Ellen Jamesians of /The World According to Garp/.
--Nathan
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