Crazy, I know!
Peter put up another one of his trademark misinformed, ill-educated, unscientific posts this evening. This one is of the “I’m going to describe transgender people using the same dehumanizing words as a confused little Damien might use” genre. As juvenile as it is petty, you can almost see a young Peter nudging a young Bam Bam (covered in dried peanut butter and spittle, both) as they laugh together and say “EW, gross!” at people they don’t understand; or alternately, you can imagine on his face the confused stare of an Idaho toddler upon visiting a town with black people for the first time.
Read the piece if you want. It’s not worth rebutting because, you know, come on. There comes a time when it’s just like “Okay, Mary, say something new.”
But the part I find funny is the tagline in red, below the post title. He inadvertently describes the exact nature of his bigoted little post, through the eyes of a normal, open-minded human being who doesn’t need a pee pad between the mattress and the sheets:
Why yes, Peter, your post is precisely that. Offensive content, indeed! The bigoted scribblings of a man unwilling/unable to understand that everything isn’t as simple as his limited, anti-intellectual worldview would suggest, a man unwilling/unable to feel/express real love for his fellow man, who instead goes through the motions of a counterfeit love that uses the name of Jesus Christ as a club to knock down anyone who deviates from whatever Dark Ages norm has been unfortunately imprinted on his psyche.
Regardless, thanks for the moment of honesty, Pete.
I assume we can expect another one in a year or so?
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Doesn’t it make you wonder what on earth radical anti-gay activist LaBarbera would do if he ever had to get a real job like the rest of us?
Did you ever see that Twilight Zone episode where the bigoted guy gets sucked into the twilight zone and suddenly finds himself a black man being chased by KKK members? Then he suddenly finds himself as a Jew in Hitler’s Germany and he’s being chased by the SS? Imagine unrepentant homophobe LaBarbera in that same Twilight Zone episode…he comes back as a Transgendered male being chased by a mob of angry, transphobic males bent on killing him. Then, as he is about to be murdered, he pops out in Uganda as a gay man and he’s about to be murdered for being gay. Your imagination can take the episode from there, but it would be a great payback for someone with LaBarbera’s “loving” qualifications.
Comment by Michael — February 5, 2010 @ 5:20 am
Michael,
That’s from the TZ movie, and I love watching it every time I can catch it. Incidentally, that’s very much like the Satanists version of hell (at least as a friend of mine has described it to me). None of that “fire and brimstone” nonsense in Satanism. If you go to hell you living the types of pain you inflicted on others–over and over–until you learn your lesson.
So in the Satanist version of hell (or a TZ variation) people like Petey, Maggie and friends would be gay and suffer at the hands of people who were just as they had been in life. And considering how hateful they all are, their torture would last for a very long time indeed. I rather wonder if they’d ever learn their lessons….
Comment by Buffy — February 5, 2010 @ 8:45 am
Sadly, that is more than likely what it would take for people like Maggie and Pete to see the hurt and pain inflicted on GLBT people every day in every part of the world. Apparently empathy simply doesn’t exist for these people and a major lesson is in order.
Comment by Merlyn — February 8, 2010 @ 9:18 am