I'm Irrationally Irritated by Gay Men

It's not there problem it's mine. I just can't understand why in the 21st century anybody gives a shit about this. I mean what kind of moronic knuckle dragging fuckwit gives a shit about this any more ? Where do I take this irritation ? 

It should be to the myopic idiots who haven't evolved enough to realise who a person falls in love with is nobody's business but their own or were unfortunate enough to be brought up by parents filled with the irrational fear of homosexuality that they couldn't help but pass on to their offspring.

It should be them I'm angry at for sustaining this as an issue when most of us are way past giving a shit. But I can't hate them. I think all I can do is pity them. So I find myself getting irritated that Gay men and lesbians are identified as separate, when I feel no need to identify myself as heterosexual. I absolutely understand the reason for doing this. It is great that Gay and Lesbian people live in a society where they can express pride in their sexuality. 

Incidentally what set me off thinking of this was an Oprah show on Mike Sisco

Ypu can read more  here and the link to the shows are here and here 

The Multi Layered Jim Davidson

I've been sitting on this post for the last couple of weeks.  I was pissed of the other week by this twitter user. He reports on the vagaries of the press. How they lie and distort etc. For the record he does a very good job of it.

He posted a tweet suggesting that anybody who reads the Daily Star must have the intelligence of a slug. I took umbrage and replied that my dad reads the Star and he's no idiot. I received a pretty dismissive response. But I didn't know where to go with the blog so I just put it to one side.


Then I listened to Jim Davidson yesterday on Fivelive with Richard Bacon. I was going to turn off but decided to give him a hearing. I was quietly impressed. He said that people have a perception of him and he realises there is nothing he can do about that. People assume he is racist and homophobic and he said really there is little he can do to change that perception of him because people had made their mind up before they got to know him.


He said he regretted doing Chalky White, the crude stereotypical Jamaican he did in the 70s. He refused to apologise for it. But again his reasoning was sound. It was the 70s and essentially he knew no better. He was being told to do it and nobody around him considered what he was doing at all out of the ordinary. 


He did make the regular rant about political correctness but was open to the notion that it was what Richard Bacon described as institutionalised politeness. And again made a good point in saying that if somebody is so ignorant to call a black person a nigger then telling them they should call them black is an exercise in futility. Only generational change is going to affect that. A good friend of mine put it right years ago when he said 'My dad is less racist than his dad, I'm less racist than him, and my son will be less racist than me.' but I digress.


He was happy to say that he was going to mock 'fat women on the dole' and frankly he could not care less if they objected. As the interview neared its end I think I could feel the mask slipping slightly as he became irritated by the constant questioning of his ideologies.


It sounds like I am Jim Davidson's cheerleader and I'm not at all. I just think listening to him is a good lesson in how wrong it is to prejudge a person. He probably isn't the nicest person you are ever going to meet but he is also nowhere near as one dimensional as we would have been led to believe. Nobody is really.


And that is why I took umbrage at the suggestion that Daily Star readers are morons, or that anybody who likes Jim Davidson or Chubby Brown is a misogynist racist. This is only one aspect of the person. Sitting here I can think of a dozen people who I know would love Chubby Brown or read the Star or the Mail. But that doesn't define them. 


When we (left and centre left types) dismiss people in this manner we do run the risk of being as bigoted and myopic as the people we are rushing to condemn.