The Internet home for American gay conservatives.
Conservatives: “Once we start tearing down traditional family structures that have generally served humanity well and proven themselves over thousands of years of human experience, who knows what will happen then.”
Progressives: “Stupid bigot. It’s not like we’re trying to normalize incest or anything.”
Progressives (3 years later): “You know what would be fun? Normalizing incest.”
Oh, no, you’re not really going to go there, are you? Are you… are you really going to…? You’re going to go there? Seriously? You’ve made up your mind and you’re going there? There is the place that you are going with this take?
OK, then. But remember, you chose to go there.
It’s because, according to the author, trying to rape a 14 year old boy is not the same as paedophilia; for which the victim must be “under 13.” And because criticizing adult gay men for trying to rape 14 year olds makes the Gay Community look bad.
Gay pundits’ overblown protests of disgust at Spacey support the very structure of pedophile sex panic—the hyperventilating reduction of queerness to child abuse—that they are trying to fend off. To be clear, under no clinical diagnostic I know of does a drunken, aggressive, and deeply stupid pass at a teenager qualify as pedophilia. Indeed, one working definition of pedophilia is “ongoing sexual attraction to pre-pubertal children … who are generally age 13 years or younger.”
The author of the Slate piece is “Joseph Fischel (an) Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and author of Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent (University of Minnesota Press, 2016).”
Here’s the description of “Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent.”
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent cautions against the adoption of consent as our primary determinant of sexual freedom. Examining the representation of consent in U.S. law and media culture, Joseph J. Fischel contends that the figures of the sex offender and the child are consent’s alibi, enabling fictions that allow consent to do the work cut out for it under late modern sexual politics.
Engaging legal, queer, feminist, and political theory, case law and statutory law, and media representations, Fischel proposes that we change our adjudicative terms from innocence, consent, and predation to vulnerability, sexual autonomy, and “peremption,” which he defines as the uncontrolled disqualification of possibility. Such a shift in theory, law, and life would be less damaging for young people, more responsive to sexual violence, and better for sex.
A gentleman killed eight people in New York City yesterday while shouting “Allahu Akbar.” Police and Federal officials are investigating his motives… which “may never be known” according to the standard template. The Progressive Left is also responding per standard template. Progressive politicians insist that we should pretend this thing never happened. Progressive media are worried about the “Anti-Muslim Backlash” that they always fret about, but which never actually happens (beyond some Mohammedans whining that “People on the subway gave me unfriendly looks” and making up hate crimes that never actually happened.) Some progressive media types even opine that “Allahu Akbar” is a very beautiful thing to hear as you’re dying.
Blah, blah, blah… just another terror attack that we can’t do anything meaningful to prevent because that is “not who we are” and it would “go against our values.” We just have to accept repeated terror attacks like they do in Europe. (Where it’s gotten to the point where police don’t even bother to investigate crimes committed by Mohammedans.) (The Japanese and Koreans don’t worry about political correctness and have no Islamic Supremacist terror in their large cities.)
You have heard, of course, that the Islamic Supremacist that killed eight people yesterday was admitted to the USA on a ‘Diversity Visa.’ Oh, yes, he was.
Oh, and… what a surprise… the FBI had previously interviewed the mass-murderer about suspected terror ties then didn’t do anything about it. This too is part of a pattern. (The FBI also checked out Speedbump Tsaernev, Omar Mateen, and Esteban Santiago-Ruiz before their terror killings and decided they were all good-to-go.)
Remember, according to the left, every Islamic Supremacist who commits a mass murder is a “lone wolf” who just decided, for no reason, to start killing non-Muslims one day. But Dylan Roof was absolutely the product of white Southern Culture and so all confederate paraphernalia must be immediately banned.
Really nothing to add here. It’s just the same old story that has happened many times before and will happen many times again. And each attack will be met with the same tired, ineffectual response as all the other Islamic Supremacist terror attacks.