When Str8 Looking Str8 Acting Fails

"If they smell gay on you, it's over!"

-----"Don't Act, Don't Tell:  Anti-Gay Laws Make Targets of Us All", Mark O'Connell, Truthdig,' 11 March 2014

1.  The Perception
2.  It's Not Just The Legislation, Violence or Rhetoric
3.  Action And Reaction


1.  The Perception

1.  How the perceived - and utterly subjective -  assessment of a person's sexual orientation, can be deadly........creating the phenomenon, "Don't ACT, Don't Tell".

2.  The above quote was in the context of professional actors and the rejection they face at auditions if "they seem gay" - regardless of their actual sexual orientation.

3.  The main point of Mr O'Connell's article is to show the increase in anti-gay sentiment globally, as well as the implication that those who "seem gay" are legitimate targets for discrimination and violence:

• Certain countries - notably in Africa and the Caribbean passed legislation that specifically targeted gays and those who might be friendly towards them or complicit in their activities;
• The refusal or delay in some countries, in the West and elsewhere, to pass Employment Non-Discrimination legislation based on sexual orientation or gender identity;
• Using the criteria of "sincerely held religious beliefs" to deny professional service to gays or those seeming to be gay; 
• Gratuitous violence against those assumed to be gay;
• Statements by (right wing) politicians that legal protections are not needed for those who do not deliberately flaunt their sexual orientation; 

2.   It's Not Just The Legislation, Violence or Rhetoric

1.  O'Connell is correct in reporting the facts evidencing anti-gay sentiment.  He is also correct in asserting that subjective perception of a person's sexuality at any given moment is potentially dangerous.

2.  But he is incorrect in implying at the beginning of his article, that this sentiment is something that somehow took on a life of its own.

3.  It didn't.  Nothing operates in a vacuum. 

4.  Several times in this blog, we referred to the Engine of Faggotry and the posture of aggression that it encourages.  We have alluded to the enforced, hypocritical, societal behaviour modification that the Politically Correct enablers of Faggotry are pushing.  See for example:

• Gay Pop Fadeout 2;
• Understanding Absurdity;
• Armed and Queer;
• Gag Rags and Propaganda;
• Duck Fucked; 
• On Being Politically Correct 1;
• On Being Politically Correct 2;

5.  We said several times that there would be a backlash - not just from the independently thinking gay man who swore no allegiance to Faggotry anyway - but from a pissed off heterosexual public angered by what they perceived as Faggotry's egregious overreach and a one way street of minority imposition.

6.  The facts itemized by O'Connell are the backlash.


3.   Action And Reaction

1.  If we are correct in our assertions, then what we are witnessing now is Action and Reaction.

2.  The more Faggotry ramps it up, the greater the likelihood that the backlash will be more overt, more visible and draconian. It's a vicious circle.

3.  Remember one more thing:  the Politically Correct enablers of Faggotry are also political operatives. Outrage, Political and Verbal Extremism, Boycotting, Lobbying, Fundraising and Backroom Deals are their modus operandi. They're all bargaining chips.  That's how they get what they want.

4.  Stand back, half close your eyes and one can perceive how extreme anti-gay legislation, denial of retail and professional service, violence and inflammatory rhetoric are virtually the mirror images of Faggotry's modus operandi.  They're all bargaining chips too - yes, even the murders, as callous as that may sound.

5.  Why are the innocent targeted in such a fatal way....?  The reality is nobody knows who actually controls Faggotry.  The politicians, pretty boys, gay (and gay-friendly) celebs who advocate for Faggotry are just proxies and patsies with a carefully groomed public image. How they are perceived -  or as they say in Politics, "the optics" -  is key. Everything depends on them being at the right place at the right time, keeping the right company, saying the right things, acting the right way.

6.  Similarly, those innocents subjected to anti-gay violence are perceived - "the optics" - as the public face of Faggotry and all the anger that brings up.  They become tragic statistics of those who were at the wrong place at the wrong time, keeping the wrong company, saying the wrong things, acting the wrong way.

7.  In a vicious circle of Action and Reaction, the struggle to impose or reject political correctness, that's how Str8 Looking, Str8 Acting (on both sides of the sexual orientation equation) fails - sometimes with fatal results.

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