Steve Sailer writes: “The AIDS epidemic in Greenwich Village, Castro Street, and West Hollywood wasn’t the fault of gay men engaging in industrial scale sodomy in Greenwich Village, Castro Street, and West Hollywood, it was the fault of everybody else everywhere else.”
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* To be fair to Kramer, one must mention his 1977/78 book “Faggots” which detailed the Fire Island scene. He was very critical about its hedonism and wrote the memorable line “we are fucking each other to death”.
Talk about foreshadowing.
* Yes, a massive media campaign has pinned the AIDS epidemic on straight white men. All those tens of thousands of dead gay men died because homophobic mobs of straight men chased them down and murdered them.
* And not just men they had sex with, around 10,000 hemophiliacs contracted AIDS due to a tainted blood supply.
That homosexual behavior spreads disease at vastly higher rates than heterosexual behavior is still the best secular argument in favor of stigmatizing it, just as we stigmatize smoking and drug use.
We often hear about how homosexuals can’t choose their sexual identity. But there is a class of people who can choose: bisexuals. And homophobia provides useful guidance and discourages them from dangerous homosexual activity.
Homophobia saves bisexuals’ lives.
In a previous thread it was mentioned that there was no good argument against gay marriage. Well, here it is: legalizing gay marriage destigmatizes homosexual behavior, and this will end up killing bisexual men.
Liberals like to say the most outspoken homophobes have hidden homosexual desires. They joke about this, but what if it’s true? Don’t bisexual men have a very good reason to cultivate their own sense of homophobia, in order to suppress their homosexual desires. Isn’t that a completely rational thing for them to do, to help themselves and their fellow bisexual men from dying of AIDS?
* I foolishly went to see “Get Hard” today and it was worse than I expected it to be. Jewish writers; dishonest hypocritical WASP investment bankers (aren’t they all?); one of whom, Ferrell, is finally redeemed by contact with earthy African American gang bangers, who, it is made clear, are far better people than the ignorant, evil (and sexually depraved)–and of course explicitly anti-semetic–white supremacists and WASPS. Basically, the movie is one-long extended let’s-laugh-about-how-whitey-gets-anally-raped-in-prison joke.
* And heterosexual women.
Heterosexual men in America were never in much danger from AIDS at all, unless they were needle junkies.
* Speaking of 70s-era California weirdness, don’t forget about the Zebra killings. It’s amazing that not only has there not been a movie about those mass murders, but I don’t even think any of the TV-crime documentary channels have even gone near it.
* Those people sure snookered everyone by getting people paranoid about AIDS, making them think anyone could get it anywhere, anytime. They got billions in research and treatment money allocated for AIDS, money that could have been better spent on other diseases. They also got everyone in Hollywood and many others wearing those lapel pins. AIDS for the most part was self-inflicted and is a preventable disease. Oh, and thanks for killing all those hemophiliacs.
* The thing is that these gays were getting all sorts of venereal diseases in the 1970s, piling one on top of another. HIV did not appear in a vacuum.
What made it worse was the irresponsible actions of some gay doctors who were into that scene. There’s a documentary entitled “Gay Sex in the 70s” with some prominent gay scenesters who managed to survive that era which is a fascinating watch.
One mentions how gay doctors would administer shots of penicillin to friends just before heading up to Fire Island . Another describes how he went to the doctor’s thinking that he had gonorrhea in his throat. The doctor dismissed such a notion until he checked it out and said “yup, you were right. I’ve never seen this before”.
Recall how the gays prior to HIV would joke about the VD clinic saying “it’s where you could go to get a shot and a date.”
* The blogger “agnostic” at akinokure.blogspot.com characterizes male homosexuality as arrested cognitive development in boyhood, around the “girls have cooties” stage. People mistake the neotenous behavior of gay men as “effeminate” because normal adult women display more childlike characteristics than normal adult men. But gay men don’t show any female nurturing behavior. Instead they behave like Peter Pan who went through puberty physically but not cognitively, and he wants to stick his penis into other males for sexual release because the female body disgusts him.
Gays’ obsessive-compulsiveness under the influence of male hormones also resembles the behavior of addicts, and that probably reflects boyish characteristics as well. Boys get hyper just from drinking caffeinated beverages, so imagine what they would do if they had access to the kinds of party drugs many gay men ingest.
You really have to feel sorry for these damaged men. Straight men can certainly have troubled relationships with women – male sexuality has a tragic component that few people want to talk about outside of the Manosphere blogs. But at least the exercise of learning how to deal with women effectively can help men to function better socially and emotionally. Gay men by contrast remain cut off from this important area of personal growth, and they suffer from diminished lives as a result.
* The only known homosexual boy in my class was writing and putting on plays by the age of 7. He couldn’t throw and would deliberately injure himself to avoid school sports days. He told me years later, that our hyper-masculine gym coach, had taken him aside and told him not to worry about doing sports because one day he was going be a successful writer…and now he is.
* I don’t think gay men were as tendentiously political in the 1980s. Back then they tended to look down upon lesbian feminists as strident and humorless, but they’ve since adopted lesbian victimism and are now better at it than the women are.
Back in the 1980s it was completely obvious that gays had inflicted this upon themselves during the Gay Liberation era.
The retconning of the past maybe got into gear in the early 1990s when cures for AIDS started to appear. To put a date on it, Magic Johnson announced he had HIV in October 1991 and that he expected to beat it. I don’t know anybody who believed at the time that he would. But he got state-of-the-art celebrity care and is still alive.
When AIDS was incurable, it didn’t make much sense to blame it on anybody else. But once it started to be quasi-manageable in the 1990s, then it quickly became popular to blame Ronald Reagan for not curing it faster.
That doesn’t make much sense, but that’s how political myths are concocted.
