The headline above isn’t a real question. It’s time for another episode of Simple Answers To Stupid Questions.
The GayPatriot blog spent two blog posts in a row, and a hundred others in the past little while, complaining about the fact that large gay organizations aren’t calling for Dan Savage’s head for using the phrase “house faggots” to describe gay wingnuts, whereas they will speak up when homophobes or people connected to homophobes use anti-gay slurs. Before giving the simple answer to the stupid question, I will once again point out that, whether or not you like Dan’s syntax, he was communicating a greater meaning with his words than the simple schoolyard taunt of “faggot.” Most gay wingnuts have not been desirous of truly understanding what Dan was saying, instead simply choosing to scream because he used the “F” word, much as their abject hatred of Barack Obama has caused them to ignore the full context of the president’s recent remarks about how everybody in this country who is successful decidedly did not get there alone. Nah, they just proof-texted the part that might have been unclear if you didn’t read the full speech. If you read his full text and actually think the president was saying that great business builders deserve no credit, that the government did it all, then your IQ is probably around 70.
Now, simple answer to stupid question:
Because it isn’t the job of groups who fight for gay rights to also simultaneously fight for the hurt feelings of people who may be technically part of our community, but who work to enable those who want to destroy our community.
Dan Savage fights for the LGBT community and for gay kids. By refusing to truly call out the bigots in their own party, groups like GOProud effectively carry water for people like Louie Gohmert (redneck-Texas), who blamed the Aurora shootings on mythical attacks on American religious freedom, which is, of course, wingnut Newspeak for “wimmin ‘n’ faggots ‘n’ coloreds.”
Easy peasy? And before some wingnut comes in and says “Oh, so you’re saying Bristol Palin’s toddler son is counted among those who are trying to yadda yadda yadda…,” I’ll answer that one: of course not. But his grandmother is. Moreover, none of the coverage I’ve seen has actually slammed the child for the incident (which, I should point out, according to the showrunner for Bristol’s charming program, didn’t actually involve the word “faggot,” but instead another “F” word). My own post chalked it up to toddlers saying embarrassing things, but I did point out (this was before the counter-claim that we were dealing with the other F word came out) that kids pick up these things somewhere. No one is calling for the HRC or GLAAD to denounce Tripp Palin, in other words. It was just an interesting story from a family led by an imbecilic homophobic matriarch, said family of which wouldn’t still be in the news if headlines weren’t the only things she wanted in life.
Strange that gay wingnuts feel victimized that mainstream gay writers reported the Palin story without first attending to the fee fees of those gay conservatives who enable those who really, really kind of hate us. Sorry, guys.
Bookmark this post, though, for the next time you feel like asking the question. I won’t be answering it again.
Savage is a closet conservative. He is a fag himself. And a shill for the NWO. It was he more than anyone else who cried for America to attack Iraq after the inside job of 9/11.
I meant to say Savage is a closet communist.
TD –
And the world is run by a caball of 8-foot shape-shifting lizards from another dimension!
Because gay conservatives are traitors, that’s why! They work toward destroying what little rights we had to fight for just to gain the fake approval of their masters, and they’re surprised that the rest of us don’t want anything to do with them?
@TD: [citation needed]
@Peter I thought it was the Illuminati. Wow I need to do more research on crackpot conspiracy theories.
LOL LOL LOL LOL! Good one Peter. :)
(It would explain those humanoid shaped shed skins around GOP headquarters though)
How many Republicans are willing to call out Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck and Tony Perkins and Ted Nugent and others on their outrageous statements? Mitt Romney has had plenty of opportunities to do this. So have the faux conservative gay Republican groups.
But Dan Savage has not been shy about calling out the conservative gay people among us who are enablers for our enemies. I have yet to see what GayPatriot and GOProud are doing for our community. They seem to thrive on praising our enemies and attacking those among us who fight for our rights.
What other F word ends in T.
@ Aulton-
Check out David Icke; The Illuminati ARE the reptiles. Apparently, the whiter you are, the more reptilian DNA you have (!).
@ Gene.
Cheers. Also, if you pull of a Republican’s arm, they will grow a brand new one in it’s place! ;D
Black to the “N”, Gay to the “F” and “C”to the “B”
Generally if you belong to the group that the derogatory term refers to then some will say you can use it to refer to members of your own group as a form of empowerment. But those out side of said group cannot. Personally if find it offensive, not empowering and always done with the same animosity as those outside of said group, therefore I don’t do it.
@robert Ferret. Tripp called her a ferret. I think its actually adorable.
According to Bristol’s showrunner, he was saying ‘FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKK!” Not “faggot.”
The term “house faggot” is very different than just the word “faggot” by itself. “House n****r” would also be different than the “n” word all by itself. It means, basically, “Uncle Tom”. There seem to be a lot of GLBT people who really dislike Dan Savage–that’s fine, no one should be forced to like anyone, but this is, indeed, a stupid question.
TD–Dan Savage is a “closet communist”?
TD–just go away.
GOProud and its ilk are all Uncle Toms. Treated with derision by their own party, a party that looks forward to the day that all of us (even the house faggots) can be herded into concentration camps.
I am not a conservative, but I don’t care for any ideological limitations on thought and debate. I think that there needs to be conservative gay voices on the net. There needs to be a counterweight to the “LGBT” mob mentality, some of which is reflected in the comments above (“Uncle Tom!”).
That having been said, the guy running GayPatriot, Dan Blatt, is a clown. I think that blog was run by someone else a few years ago and the discussion was more intelligent and nuanced. Blatt on the other hand seems to know very little about the subjects on which he opines. All of his posts seem to devolve into hostile attacks on “the left” and on Obama. Frankly, the blog is repetitive, unoriginal, and boring. Then there are the disturbing attacks on gay people, such as his post a few years back attacking the lesbian teen who was fighting to attend her prom with her girlfriend and his more recent “jokes” about Barney Frank’s wedding as well as the Congressman’s speech impediment.
That blog in its current form is not contributing to a diversity of viewpoints or a richer dialogue. Hopefully, a more intelligent and thoughtful person will start up a conservative or independent gay blog to replace that train wreck.
Jeff, where was there any limiting debate here? In what way does the term “Uncle Tom” prevent anyone from expressing their opinion and what way does it represent a “mob mentality”? Did you actually read any of the comments or did you just see the term “uncle Tom” and freak out? “Uncle Tom” means something–why don’t you find out what it means and then tell us how it limits debate?
And Jeff, you can’t blame this site for the stupidity of conservative blogs–you can only blame those bloggers.
Dan Savage does an amazing job of pointing out hypocrisy and I love him for it.
I am a faggot. I own that word. I love it when called a faggot. You think it hurts me? It makes me strong.
Dan Savage: It Gets Better, advocacy, and most importantly EDUCATION for the clueless youth in this “abstinence-only” country of teen moms.
Conservative GOP: tax cuts for the wealthy and MORE WARS.
Dan wins, f**k those house faggots. Or better yet don’t, they can go home feeling frustrated and unloved just like the rest of their hateful little shithole of a party.
He called GOProud “house faggots” for endorsing a candidate who wants to reinstate DADT, is in favor of keeping DOMA and speaks out regularly against our rights (despite the fact that he painted himself to the left of Ted Kennedy on gay rights when he was running against him in Massachusetts). I would say Dan had it right about GOProud, they are trying to please their massas.
Gay’s have their own agenda, I was in the military and the gay’s promoted only those that were in their group. They wrote good fitness reports for their friends and wrote bad fitness reports for strights. I left the service of the US navy because of the gay’s and their agenda. I have seen how hard your group has worked to exclude strights and mark us as bad. I may not yell I stright get used to it, but your people do. I really do not care much about what you do on your own time, but you are killing our military, and the defence of our country, kids that enlist find out about the gay gangs and leave the service in droves. Just check together we served web site to find out how gay’s in the military hurt the service with their gang like activities. You have to admit that gay’s band together and it’s not to far of a reach to see that they only promote their friends. Also I can’t trust them to care for me if I am injuried before they care for their gay friends. I don’t want to die because I’m stright and they are gay!
You know Russty, it would really help your credibility if you could spell “straight” correctly.
I’m sorry Rustbrain but as someone who really is in the military, there is no such thing as a 104th Keyboard Division. If you truly are, then if you haven’t been promoted it’s your own fault. You just didn’t have what it takes to promote. People like you, who blame others for their failures, make the rest of us look bad (assuming you truly are in the military, which is highly suspect, given your behavior here).