Blaming Grindr...?

Fagland consistently touts itself as an "inclusive community".  Pick up a fag rag (freebie or paid) and there will be repeated references to, "Proudly serving the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Community".

The smart reader will observe that there is a problem right there with the words, "GLBT Community". All of them are separate communities.  Fagland's apparent inclusivity is intended to boost circulation figures for the local fag rags, desperately dependent on corporate and individual advertising in order to be given away free, or repeated sponsorships on paid issues.

And talking of things given away for free, what about Grindr and its impact on "the community"...? We came across this bizarre article:

There are two sorts of people whose use of Twitter and Facebook is notable and interesting, but about whom little is written for fear of causing offence. The first is black tweeters................................

The other is homosexual men. Gay-specific social networks are both socially troubling and rich with comic potential, but it’s not on gay-oriented websites that the most sociologically compelling interactions are happening – at least, not any more. Because friends of Dorothy are re-colonising mainstream social networks for romantic (and pragmatic) purposes, adding a distinctive flavour of their own to traditionally heterosexual playgrounds.

This abandonment of sex-centric sites and services by the gay elite comes at an opportune time, as gay celebrities voice concerns that Grindr has had a devastating effect on gay culture by reducing footfall in clubs and elbowing lesbians and transgender people out of the conversation. They claim that a shared club culture that helped to glue these marginalised groups together in the past is being eroded by hook-up apps that focus exclusively on gay men.

------"Did Grindr Accidentally Kill Gay Culture?", Milo Yiannopoulos, Kernelmag, 12 November 2012

Comment 

1.   OK......we admit it......we farted with laughter when we read this quote - and ended up sounding like a Harley Davidson taking off at a stop light after we read the entire article.

2.   The entire article attempts to make 2 points:

• the "gay elite" is abandoning Grindr and other sex-centric sites in favour of mainstream social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter;
• the sex-centric sites have fractured "the community";

3.   Uh....oh.....there it is again, right at the top of the quote......grouping blacks and fags together - yet attempting to keep them separate. We've noticed this repetitive social meme of "gays are the new blacks".  Gotta keep that whole minority/suppression/ discrimination/PC thingy going. It's part of the Engine of Faggotry, remember....?

4.   Whilst FuelMix agrees that gay sex-centric sites are rich with comic potential (see the equally laugh and fart inducing post, Grindr Bitching or what we've written about Craigslist M2M and Casual Encounters under the Gays Online label), on what basis is it alleged they are "socially troubling"....? The spike in STD rates and HIV infections perhaps.....? the number of drug-fucked fags lingering on multiple gay sex-centric sites late at nite.....? The author never said.

5.   Yeah.....the gay sex-centric sites attract their share of chronically repetitive, worded-for-failure ads with the usual exhortations ("Let's do this..."!), the obviously fake stats and pics, the bitching, the closeted married business traveler, the str8 but curious..........but........hit the Grindr website....... and there are happy testimonials from happy fags who found Mr Right - right alongside those fags searching the carnal haystack for the right needle.

6.   And what's this about Friends of Dorothy "re-colonising" the mainstream social networking sites for romance and pragmatism....?? Bullshit.  They never left.  Grindr came along much later than Facebook or Twitter. Our view is that fags cross-pollinated. A fag will search for dick wherever he can.

7.   Just who are the fuckin' "gay elite" that the author alleges have abandoned the sex-centric sites at an opportune time....?  We're totally baffled.......in our admittedly unscientific experience and observations, the "gay elite" are usually self-proclaimed, screeching "activists" hell bent on pushing Faggotry's latest behaviour-modification programme on a rightly pissed off majority. They aren't called Gay Nazis for nothing. As we recall, the real Nazis thought they were elite too.

8.   And according to the author, there's a distinction between the "gay elite" and "gay celebrities".....??!!  We can hear the hissing right now in LaLa Land.............

9.   Did the gay sex-centric sites really fracture "the community" as the author alleges?  Garbage.  We've said it before.......There is no "community".  There are only  cliques defined by their sexual orientation. And that is precisely how fags prefer to keep it. The vast majority of time, in cases of "outrage" it is fags screaming about "the community". The dirty little editorial secret is what they don't publicly say: ........they'd prefer to be referring to themselves only.

Think about it.......when was the last time you went grocery shopping with a transgender....? or insisted on a lesbian plumber.....? or asked for a recommendation for a bisexual dentist......?

10.   Grindr was never set up to be inclusive. It's a cock-focused site.  There's nothing stopping lesbians and transgendered or bisexuals setting up similar sites. The assertion that Grindr fractured "the community" is as false as it is farcical. There was no community to begin with.

11.   As for Grindr having had a devastating effect on reducing traffic in gay bars. Oh please......for the average fag, the gay bar is part of the ritual circuit.......gym, public toilet, mall toilet, gay bookshop, nude beach, parks, gay bar. Rinse and repeat. If the gay bar is removed from that equation, it pretty much breaks the circle of life for the fag.  If there has been a reduction in customers of gay bars in the West, it's been due to the fraud of investment bankers, that wrecked the middle class and the poor, and reduced disposable income.

12.   You must be fuckin' blind if you hadn't noticed the number of fags checking into Grindr while they're at the bar.  If the bars are losing business, it isn't because of Grindr. It's because:

• the same people at the bar are the same people on Grindr.  They cross-pollinated again.
• the bar's  clientele sucks;
• the drinks are over-priced; 
• the gay bar across the street is the current hot spot; 
• the drug-fucked go-go boys are looking a little worse for wear;

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