Today, as many of you no doubt know, is Gay Pride Day. Here in Chicago, that means the annual Pride Parade, a celebration of all things LGBTQetc — and a nice aerobic workout for parade participants. (Gyrating on a float for three hours dressed in a leather harness and thong will burn roughly 1000 calories. But beware of chafing!)
Rookh Kshatriya, proprieter of the Anglobitch blog (devoted to the notion that women in the Anglosphere are, well, bitches), has evidently decided to celebrate Pride Weekend by offering us all his theories on gay male sexuality. Which is to say, his theory that there is no such thing as gay male sexuality, and that all those gay men out marching today would much rather be spending their Sunday eating bagels and doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with some comely (non-lesbian) lasses.
Yep, in Rookh’s World, gay men – or, as he puts it, “gay” men — are actually nothing more than exceptionally horny straight men who have been unfairly denied sex-on-demand with women of their choosing.
Let’s let him explain this:
Despite their rhetoric about lifestyles and the contemplation of flowers, gay men are clearly entranced by orgasm to an extent far surpassing that of heterosexual men.
Alas, in our Feminazified world, women sometimes refuse to have sex with men. Deprived a natural outlet for their sexy urges, horny dudes have to, well, improvise a bit. Why try to finagle your way into a vagina assiduously guarded by some dumb lady, when other dudes just as horny as you have holes of their own available for the asking?
As Rookh sees it, these uber-horny dudes really have no other choice.
[A]re most gay men just hyper-sexualized males – a self-selecting group whose priapic urges can only be satisfied by rejecting the relative sexual deprivation inescapably attendant on heterosexuality? The more one considers this possibility, the more plausible it seems. Even some badass with the looks of Apollo, the Game of Roissy and the confidence of a warlord would struggle to enter a nightclub and say: “I want sex NOW!” and expect to get it.
A terrible, terrible injustice. But there is a way out:
Yet homosexual men can enter any gay bath house in any Anglosphere city, say the very same words and expected to be sexually serviced by several men in a matter of minutes! In short, the sexual mismatch between the sexes makes the heterosexual lifestyle a poor option for any hyper-sexualized male – a non-option, in fact, if he wants to fully slake his sexual thirsts. By contrast, adopting homosexuality allows him to instantly indulge his every sexual whim in every manner conceivable.
Unless, of course, these whims involve sex with, you know, women. But lust is apparently stronger than mere sexual orientation. As Rookh sees it, homosexuality is the only rational choice for uber-horny men – even if they’d rather be boning women.
Since sex is so scarce and difficult to acquire in a heterosexual context, it simply makes no sense for an Anglo-American male with priapic urges to remain heterosexual – hence the self-selection of hyper-sexualized males towards homosexual lifestyles, not to mention the hyper-sexualized nature of homosexuality itself.
Is this all a prelude to a touching coming-out announcement by our man Rookh?
No such luck. It’s actually an excuse for, yes, more feminism-bashing. For it is the evil feminists who, in Rookh’s world, have been encouraging the “female sexual ostracism” of poor suffering straight men:
As we all know, women seek to control men by limiting sexual supply, be it representational (pornography) or actual (prostitution) – and that feminism is, essentially, an institution created for that purpose.
And so, in Rookh’s world,
homosexuality has advanced in lock-step with feminism. … [F]eminism – by assailing marital monogamy and allowing women to indulge their primordial attraction to dangerous thugs, moronic bullies and swaggering plutocrats – produced an unwanted ‘rump’ of educated, economically stable but sexually disenfranchised males. Given that gay males are disproportionately intelligent, solvent and educated, it is fairly obvious that members of this group have opted for homosexuality as a means of escaping the living death of involuntary celibacy, that the two phenomena are in fact closely related and that feminism is directly responsible for the advancement of homosexuality across the Anglosphere.
Feminism, by encouraging women to say “no” when they don’t actually want to have sex, may have created modern homosexuality, in Rookh’s view. But that doesn’t mean that feminists actually like gay dudes. No. Ick!
[T]he vast majority of Anglo females detest gay men as vehemently as they hate men in general. … the real link between pan-Anglosphere feminism and homosexuality [is that] the latter is a reaction to the former, which hates it with boundless counter-reactionary zeal.
Yeah, seems to me that the only one here who really “detest[s] gay men” is, well, Rookh, so much so that he’s decided to completely erase gay male sexuality – to put “gay” in scare quotes – in order to give himself another opportunity to run down feminists and women in general.
Now, human sexuality is a weird, messy, complicated, wonderful thing. It may well be that some bisexual men end up having sex with men more often than with women because they find it easier to find male sex partners for casual sex. But guys who are thoroughly gay – who would score a 6 on the famous Kinsey scale – don’t actually want to have sex with women. They really don’t. Drop a beautiful, eligible, horny (straight or mostly straight) woman in the midst of a bunch of Kinsey 6 guys, and this is what you get:
Court’s free!
@Lyn mine was.. like that but more complicated cuz I wasn’t rly ME back then :
I feel like this one is kinda like that :3 but it becomes more complex, cuz we don’t see each other regularly (or ever) nemore cuz the training is over : and I haven’t been paired w/ him for a “mission” yet xD (i like calling them “missions” xD )
Ithiliana, I can heartily endorse the ereader. It doesn’t care what format you put on it, and if you have a program like Calibre it’s really easy to manage your books and re-tag them if you want to*. Calibre works with online databases too so you get the ISBIN and the book cover if you want. My only complaint is that if you get upwards of 200 books on it, the loading slows down… so I keep my library on my hard drive and I only carry around about 100 books at a time.
I’ve also been known to use it for shopping lists and reminders since it takes *.rtf very easily.
I’m on my second version of the reader, not because of a flaw in the product, but because my first one was heavily stepped on and the lcd broke. I find the touchscreen very easy to use on this version, and any glare that was there in the earliest version (due to introducing touch technology) has been totally eliminated. The current generation is also much less pixilated and looks like a “real” book when you’re reading it. I take mine everywhere with me, and it’s easy to pull out on a commute or in line at the grocery store.
*and I’ve found the things I’ve downloaded to be quite strangely tagged.
Look, at the risk of talking about My Problems, as I’ve said a thousand times, it’s not just one, it’s the interaction of All. I’m considering posting a picture, because I really don’t think you people can understand my situation from words. I’m worried I would be recognized, though.
I’ve dated (and crushed on) guys of all different descriptions. I don’t really have a “type.” The only things they really have in common are:
1. They (most of them) didn’t hate me.
2. They (most of them) seemed to like me.
3. They didn’t (noticeably) hate women.
4. We had something in common.
5. I found them attractive.
6. They didn’t whine endlessly about how no one ever in the history of the planet had ever been worse off than them.
@M Dubz, I’m in Melbourne, Australia…so a little way away :). And I’ve done my research on the area (trying to get fit and woah – dancing is a way of getting fit that I enjoy! Who knew such a thing existed!) and unfortunately most dance studios are at least a 45 minute drive away (Melbourne is a sprawling city…doesn’t have that many people but takes up a lot of space). Lately my gym has started offering ballet classes…the one type of dancing that has actually stopped me from doing that strange thing with my hips ;)…and that’s been pretty great.
Ami:
*HUGS*
I tended to binge eating–but I’ve come to believe that it’s a spectrum around weight and food and gender, and not “opposite” things.
Stress tends to bring it back, though I manage a bit better nowadays.
I wish I could help.
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MRAL, don’t talk about your problems then.. let’s talk about MINE! :3 Maybe helping me w/ my question here will make you feel better and more useful! :3
@Ami – I am with you on having trouble eating. I’m not an ED survivor, but after a thyroidectomy for cancer and what they now think is Cushing’s Disease I’ve been not eating for so long that the concept gets hard. V-8 has a new fruit juice with all of the benefits of their veggie one that’s been getting me through the day for the most part that I highly recommend.
Rats, just got told it was time for bed–we have to get to work tomorrow at a decent time!
And I bet the convo will get good–in order to get what I need to get done, I should STAY AWAY from here tomorrow until I’m back home.
After my 348 hour work day with no rest breaks where I have to climb hills in blizzards with cardboard shoes!
Apparently in the commentary track in Fellowship after Gandalf falls with the Balrog the guy who played Legolas is talking about his motivation for the scene and goes on and on about how he’s devestated that Gandalf died because he’s an elf and immortal and doesn’t understand mortality…. and and… WRONG! I wanna slap him it’s SO WRONG! Almost as wrong as the way they kept shooting the golden wood in silvery lights… GOLDEN WOOD… grumble… (but those are really my only big complaints about the film, so pretty good all around :P)
And you want to really blow a guy’s mind? Read both more sci-fi/fantasy than he does (and have decided opinions on it) *and* read Nora Roberts and other NYTimes bestselling romance authors… they can’t understand how that can happen in the same brain… it’s funny!
@Ithiliana *hugs you* I’m sry about complaining :
I kinda want to talk to you outside of here sometimes tho, you seem rly cool and sometimes I feel like I want to talk to somebody older than me b/c I want some perspective :] (technically NWO is as old as you, but I think I’d prefer your advice) but I dun want to impose, esp since you dunno me : But I do think you are rly cool and want to be your friend :3
ok good night Ithiliana! 😀 Sleep well :]
@amandajane5 🙁 *supportive hugs* yeah, once your body gets used to not eating (esp when the hunger reflex goes away) it’s rly hard to WANT to eat sometimes :
Oh, and Kate – that made me laugh!
One thing I keep trying to avoid now is bringing up how much sexual violence there is in fantasy fiction, because it’s amazing how many hard-core fantasy readers respond with: ‘huh, there isn’t much of that in epic fantasy, what are you on about?’ Which makes me want to hit them – srsly, how did you not notice all of the rape and rapey stuff in the Wheel of Time series? Robin Hobb’s work? Bah.
Robert Jordan was a misandrist.
MRAL stop trying to make it all about you xD You do this whenever the convo either moves away from you or towards something that you dun want to talk about… you rant about Hugo Schwytzer or in this case some other person, barely on topic, so you can make it all about ppl arguing w/ you -_-
I asked you for your advice… still nothing xD Are you just interested in you you you and nothing but you? xDDD
I agree MRAL. RJ was also a misogynist. He made up a whole world that was about ensuring everyone stayed in their gender roles which were limited and confining for all his characters.
We all know it’s all about me neways >:3
@Lyn MRAL’s hatred of WoT makes sense actually, cuz it’s pretty much the world HE THINKS WE LIVE IN xD (w/ the gender roles, divided gender limitations for magic, etc) so of course he’s mad xD “this isn’t fantasy! THIS IS THE LIFE I LIVE EVERY FUCKING DAY!” plus the heroes are all tall and they all get hooked up xD
Ya Lyn, I had a friend tell me that if i didn’t read books that made me uncomfortable (after complaining about a very rapey scene in one that made me stop reading that author entirely) that I’d “never grow as a person”.
My response was that by sticking to my own principles I thought I was demonstrating what kind of person I was. The argument only ended when I walked away and did something else (with his girlfriend) because I wasn’t backing down and he couldn’t admit that there could possibly be a difference of opinion on the matter. (also, he really liked the author iirc and didn’t want to have to re-think the books he loved)
@ithiliana: I’ve lived 7 years with a non-reader, for me it wasn’t a deal breaker but it certainly is a bit strange not being able to share something I’m passionate about. I got her into D&D though so… it’s all good.
I’m thinking though, my house already looks a like borderline hoarder house from all the books lying around, I can’t imagine what it would be like with a second avid reader in the place, especially if our books of interest had low overlap. And that day I spent triaging the ‘keep, give, throw away’ categories for my move would have been even more nerve-wracking.
Technically I’m prolly a non reader xD At least for fiction, I digest everything in bite sized manga portions (like Maximum Ride, Twilight, etc… it makes it easier than to read the actual things.. like Twilight xD And the pictures are pretty :3 ) I compare it to eating all my food in milkshake form xD
But non fiction, I read a LOT… I’m always rly interested in social and historical analysis, and sports books, esp ones about sports business and analysis of sports :3
Sorry, Ami. Diverting attention from you – you should revoke my feminist card!
But more seriously, I’m frustrated by my own relationship with food atm – tending toward binging because of stress…and then stressing about OMFG what if I gain weight, everyone will think I am hideous and then I fail at life and my partner will cheat on me and it will be the end of the world. *rolls eyes at self*. I have absolutely no advice on how to deal with it – I’m keeping a ‘health’ journal at the moment: this involves writing down what I’m eating and how I feel about it so I can think more consciously about whether I’m eating food because I feel like it and I enjoy it or if I’m eating food because it’s there and I’m anxious. No word yet on how well that works and I worry about this tactic cos I don’t want to obsess about food as that ain’t healthy either…sigh.
Ooh, Ami, have you read any Pierre Burton? I’ve just finished “Vimy” and was thinking of trying to get through “Marching as to War” next… I really like his thoughts on how things like the world wars shaped Canada. If you haven’t read it, “why we are Canadian” is a great little read, and it’s in bite-sized chapters that are letters to Uncle Sam about the differences between Canada and the US. It’s strangely relevant after all this time (it was written in 1969 to celebrate us becoming a real grown up country… lol…)
Remember, Lyn, if you become a fat fat fatty then MRAL won’t want to date you.
You might want to keep that in mind.