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| Tim James hates drag shows unless he's in one. |
The situation with Libs of TikTok accusing LGBTQ people and teachers of being pedophiles takes me back. There was an article which pointed out how Anita Bryant in the 1970s was probably the first person to harness the lie into political power.
But she certainly wasn't the first to exploit the lie. In 1961, there was an educational film shown to students called Boys Beware:
Shot in 1961 BOYS BEWARE was shot in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California and produced with the cooperation of the city's police department and the Inglewood Unified School District, is narrated by a police detective who is on his way to a school meeting to discuss the issue of sexual predators that attempt to lure young adolescent males. It not only shows basic misunderstandings about homosexuality but also attempts to prejudice the community against homosexuals who are portrayed as predatory at best, and basically as anti-social and evil.
It's a rather ridiculous film and can be seen as comedically ludicrous now. That is until you realize how the ideas it presents have been constantly recasted and believed by so many.
What a lovely day. First a far-right Twitter address which posted deceptive videos accusing LGBTQ people and our allies of being pedophiles got exposed.
Now this courtesy of Reuters by way of LGBTQNation:
A screenshot of a post on a Reddit channel is circulating online with comments purportedly from the parent of a transgender child who is forcibly giving their child hormones. However, the entire post is fabricated, and the channel has been shuttered by Reddit on the grounds it was aimed at promoting hatred of transgender people and spreading “hateful stereotypes.”The fabricated screenshot shows a post on the subreddit “r/transparenttranskid”, allegedly from a transgender parent. The parent says they forcefully administered the female hormone estradiol to their child, who was purportedly transitioning, as their child did not want to take the drugs.. . . However, there is no evidence that the post is an authentic account of events, and the “r/transparenttranskid” subreddit has since been removed. A conversation in an online forum on Aug. 6, 2021, revealed that users were planning to contribute false stories to the “r/transparenttranskid” subreddit here .On the same forum, a user called “Funkyduffy” responded to a call to “snap up” the subreddit and fill it with fabricated stories by linking to the post about the forced administration of estradiol and pairing it with a GIF that reads: “I’m doing my part” here .An archive of the subreddit shows the original poster of the alleged forced estradiol story was also called “Funkyduffy” (archive.ph/BojLr). The “r/transparenttranskid” subreddit was removed by Reddit for “generally violating the Reddit Rules”, a moderator on the platform said on Aug. 25, 2021 (here).“They were engaged in promoting hatred of transgender people, as well as targeted harassment,” they added.
. . .the stories still spread outside of Reddit to rightwingers who were all too willing to believe them. “This is fucking child abuse and I’ll die on this Hill,” wrote libertarian author Justin O’Donnell on Twitter, posting a picture of Funkyduffy’s fake story. He got almost 46,000 likes for it. Ian Miles Cheong – who has a history of posting misinformation about trans people online and even riling Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) up – shared the story with the words “Good parenting.”
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| Dave Rubin is not the type of man gay boys should aspire to be. |
Last month, noted gay conservative Dave Rubin got attacked by folks on his side of the political spectrum. The reason was that he and his husband announced that they were going to become parents. After making the announcement, Rubin was inundated with criticisms from several other conservative figures and sites with comments ranging from calling him an 'unrepentant sodomite' to claiming that he is 'negating women.'
Such comments like the one below:
He didn't.
Less than a month after him, his husband, and expected children were made the subject of homophobic smears, Rubin has embraced the smearers and joined them in echoing the same lies about Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill and claims that LGBTQ people and teachers in general are trying to teach little kids about sex.
Like so:
During that appearance, Rubin said:
What's very sad about this Disney situation is they stepped into the woke swamp, and they cannot get themselves out. This bill, which is not don't say gay, there's no phrase in the bill even with the word gay, you could have just as easily called it don't say straight. This is a bill about transparency and that you don't want state employees talking to six-year-olds about sex, which we all know that's the right thing… This is an imaginary controversy, but Bob Chapek, who is the CEO of Disney, he has a woke corporation.
He has woke activists working for him, and Bill, I'm guessing you and Dana saw it. There was a video where he has all of his activist employees, and he's pledging he'll be a better ally, and he wishes he could be better, and he'll do more for them. And congratulations, Bob Chapek, you run one of the biggest corporations in the world, one of the most culturally relevant corporations, at least. So you've been culturally relevant. We'll see, and now you are a hostage, you are a CEO hostage to your activist employees. This is not going to end well for Disney, and I think we just need to build new things.
And then there is his appearance on Mark Levin's show, when Levin asked him this:
Dave, I want to ask you a question about this culture virus. I want to go right to the classroom and the parents movement. I want to go right to Disney and so forth. I feel like this has all just suddenly happened the last two or three years, where it has become a civil right to sexualize 5-year-olds, 6-year-olds, and 7-year-olds, and I say to myself, shouldn't everybody be rising up against this? Whether you're straight or gay or whatever you are, isn't the point to leave little babies alone?
Feel free to see what Rubin's answer was by following this link. But to summarize, Rubin repeats the nonsense he said in the other Fox interview - the bill has nothing to do with LGBTQ people, it's about transparency, and doesn't target LGBTQ people at all.
Rubin's attempt to distort about the bill shouldn't fool anyone. According to NBC news:
. . .legal experts say that whether the bill prohibits the word “gay” itself is a “distraction.” “In the same way that critical race theory isn’t being taught in schools, that hasn’t stopped people like the governor of Florida from deploying the term ‘critical race theory’ in efforts to engage in certain kinds of political maneuverings,” said Charlton Copeland, a professor at the University of Miami School of Law who writes about sexual orientation and gender identity. “The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ moniker is a moniker about a certain political framing of this situation.”
Beyond branding, a core argument over the bill centers around whether it would prohibit the “instruction” or “discussion” of sexual orientation. The bill’s sponsors have emphatically stated that the bill would not prohibit students from talking about their LGBTQ families or bar classroom discussions about LGBTQ history, including events like the 2016 deadly attack on the Pulse nightclub, a gay club in Orlando. Instead, they argue that the bill would bar the “instruction” of sexual orientation or gender identity. But the text says both.
In its preamble, the bill’s authors write that their aim is to prohibit “classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity.” But later, the actual bill states that “classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur.” “I could see why people are confused by that,” said Clay Calvert, a professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law who specializes in freedom of speech.
And teachers are not having private sexual conversations with kindergartners and six-year-olds. That is simply not happening.
But enough of the bill. Let's talk about Rubin. He reminds me a disgusting oily salesman oozing with two dollar knock-off cologne you can get from the Dollar Tree, smelly hair cream, and illusions of grandeur. He sees himself as an alpha male and a free thinker, but he comes across as a wannabe willing to sell his own mother out for a little clout and a lot of money.
Apparently Rubin didn't learn anything from being targeted by other conservatives. Or maybe he did learn something. Still Rubin remains a pathetic sell-out trying to disguise what is obviously his self-hatred with empty snark masquerading as intelligence. There isn't enough negative things I can say about a man who will stab other LGBTQ people in the back with the same weapons of deceit and hatred used against him.
This isn't a matter of integrity or difference of opinion. It's about a sad fool who seems to think that he is above the rest of us LGBTQ people. He mistakes his usefulness to the opposition as some sort of attribute instead of the sad pandering that it is. Rubin is fooling himself when it comes what he's saying. His words aren't emanating from a golden tongue. That's just all of the grime, dirt, and grit which comes from his licking of conservative boots.
What's worse is that Rubin attempts to delude the rest of us into thinking that he is making an independent stand. Honey, you aren't standing. You're bending over with your lips puckered. I can even smell your lip gloss.
What makes Rubin think that he's any different in the eyes of homophobic conservatives except for the fact that he is making himself useful? What makes Rubin think that he, his husband, and expectant kids are protected from the undermining that homophobic conservatives want to inflict on LGBTQ people.
Does Rubin think that his money or prominence is going to save him should things do come to a dire point? Does he think his rights are safe? What about the rights of his husband and expectant kids?
I'd call him a fool, but that would be too generous.
Even a fool has better sense not to cut off his own nose to smite his face.
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| Tucker Carlson's new special should be about the 'birth of homoeroticism' instead of 'The End of Men. |
You got something you wanna tell us, Tucker?
I promise you are not prepared for Tucker's latest montage pic.twitter.com/8tdvYTW2cn
— nikki mccann ramÃrez (@NikkiMcR) April 16, 2022
We shouldn't be bullied from saying the obvious about this hysteria concerning 'Don't Say Gay' bills.
It's a bunch of crap. And so is the phrase 'parents rights' which is fueling all of this garbage. It's all less about the children and more about adult fears of realizing that sexual orientation and gender identity are about more than sexual intercourse.
Let's be real. No school is instructing little children about sexual behavior. It's not happening. What is happening is that a bunch of adults are using children to cloak their own personal fears and animus about LGBTQ people and families.
And exercising their imaginary privilege.
Think about it. Whenever you hear things about 'parents rights,' you know those spewing the phrase aren't talking about same sex families or LGBTQ parents, even though between 2 million and 3.7 million children under age 18 have an LGBTQ parent, and approximately 200,000 of them are being raised by a same-sex couple. Many of these children are being raised by a single LGBTQ parent or by a different-sex couple where one parent is bisexual.
And more than a third of same-sex couples raising children are racial or ethnic minorities. That last part is very apt because these crusaders of parental rights aren't necessarily in the corner of parents of color no matter what sexual orientation they may be. But that's a subject which I can go on at length. at another time.
To the point, the idea of 'parents rights' is in the same vernacular of 'real America' or 'middle America' in that it's the co-option of a phrase which sounds perfectly sane but masks deep and ugly prejudices It's sending semantics not about who's included, but who is deliberately being excluded from mainstream society.
In other words 'parents rights' means mostly white and all heterosexual parents. The supporters of the concept will attempt to deny it, but trust your own eyes and ears on this matter. No parents of color (except for maybe one or two who are visible for appearance sake but have no real power) and certainly NO LGBTQ parents. It's about maintaining an inaccurate status quo in which certain type of parents are hustled to spotlights and intense visibility in order to present an image of mother bears and father grizzlies protecting their innocent and fragile young.
But these mother bears and father grizzlies and their children are almost always white and heterosexual, fostering image which has nothing to do with reality. And when they get spotlighted or amplified, they aren't protecting their children. They are protecting the mythology of their privilege. They don't represent all parents. They represent a pecking order which puts them on the top and anoints them as a sort of gold standard. And most of all, that imaginary pecking order gives them the right to undermine and shut down any other type of parenting which doesn't fit their qualifications.
In their world, no matter how LGBTQ parents love, do for, and care for their children, they don't count. They are imperfections which can be at the very least can be ignored, kicked aside, or erased. Their voices don't matter and their children don't matter as well. They are ever so slightly but firmly pushed to the outskirts of the mainstream That is until another right-wing astroturfed grassroots group can draft a new law or create a new court case to stomp them out.
It's not fair nor is it right, but people seem to be more involved in protecting that image than presenting the reality in which all families matter and the concerns of all parents should be seen as equal.
That's real harm being done to children.
Statistics on same-sex families come from Family Equality Council. You can read more here.
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| Vladimir Putin |
The tweet above is courtesy of me calling out a Twitter address called Libs of Tik Tok.So stupid how this homophobic Twitter address is trying to make this into some kind of outrage. So what. When I was in school, we acted wilder during spirit week. The people outraged by this are the ones being 'groomed.' https://t.co/gwFXXB7icq
— Holy Bullies (@holybullies) April 12, 2022
Started on TikTok in April 2020 (where the account has since been removed) the Libs of TikTok account moved to Twitter in November 2020, where it soon gained momentum following a series of popular tweets and promotion by conservative influencers Joe Rogan and Meghan McCain. A self-proclaimed “mini Project Veritas,” the Libs of TikTok account has amassed over 500,000 followers, growing into an influential online marketplace for right-wing attacks.Many of its viral posts feed into the full-fledged moral panic on the right about LGBTQ+ issues being taught in public education, accusing “groomer teachers” of using schools as “government run indoctrination camps” for conversations about gender and sexual identity. The account has also tweeted examples of teachers supposedly promoting critical race theory in the classroom, a major obsession in right-wing media, and suggested that transgender people are part of a “serious mental health crisis.” As the right-wing media increases their defense of the “Don’t Say Gay” legislation in Florida, the Libs of TikTok content has become ammunition for their arguments.
Dear Republican Party, I would suggest that you make sure your closet is squeaky clean before you and your goons continue to designate LGBTQ people as 'groomers' and 'pedophiles.' According to this video from Meidas Touch, your glass house has got huge cracks.
