I have never given much thought to homosexuality. And I have never understood it. But I have always thought that there is something inauthentic about it. That is, many gay people, well gay men, seem to relish the the theater of it; they make it a production. It is a show.
Of course, not all of them are like this. But for the men who put on the gay show, really you have to ask, is any of that real? Well this Milo interview comes as close to explaining gayness as I have ever seen.
Now to me, watching Milo Yiannopoulos, it looks like he is on something. And here I mean more so than when we used to see him a decade ago. But if we can, and we should, set that aside, he makes some wildly interesting, honest, and I believe accurate, points. Whether he is doped-up or not, he is an astute observer on this topic.
Like I said, I have never given this topic much thought. I have never been terribly close to it. But once, when I was in college, during the AIDS crisis, a friend asked me what I thought about homosexuality. I remember saying to her, well, I think it is a choice. She was aghast, and asked, but why would anyone choose to be gay? My response was, I think it is a form of rebellion. Parental rebellion or family rebellion, or maybe even something broader. But it is something reactive rather than innate.
She was even more aghast, but I added, plus it has the added benefit of making one a victim. This was before the whole victim identity nonsense and she just could not believe that one would or could purposefully identify as a victim. To what end? She asked. Well, there is a kind of status in victimhood. And it gives you a kind of shield against criticism.
She had to think about that. But then she asked me the question that I could not answer: If it is a choice, when did you decide that you were straight?
Bam!
That was it, right? There was no answer to that question. Conversation over.
And I really never thought about it again.
Sure, I met gay people over the years. But from the time of that conversation, my attitude was, hey, you do you.
But about twenty years later something happened. I met no less than three men, roughly my age, who had married women and had children, and then after long marriages, came out as gay. All three subsequently divorced. And I thought back to our conversation twenty years earlier. Wait, if they are born that way, then whether or not they were ready and willing to accept their homosexuality and/or go public with it, they surely had chosen to be straight. Or at least had chosen to act straight and live as straight. Right?
Well no; I was told, because people wrestle with this internally and sometimes it takes decades to accept who you are. But be that as it may, it seemed to me that there was a choice being made. And then later reversed.
But this was impolitic, and not really an area of interest for me, so I pretty much kept my opinion to myself. And it was easy enough to continue with the you do you attitude.
And so I did, again for years. But over the decades homosexuality, and its various dispositions and alphabetic permutations, have continued to grow. If you make the argument that this proves that it is not innate, the bien-pensants respond with, well today more people feel they can be open about who they really are. So they dismiss the social contagion argument outright.
Still, today, I want to take the you do you attitude. I want to. But the numbers have exploded, young people are clearly confused, schools are encouraging alternative sexualities and then hiding the results from parents, we are mutilating children, gender confusion has swept all aspects of society, we are producing record levels of surrogate children, and more broadly, we are accepting of these children in gay households. And while the causes are uncertain, testosterone levels are in free fall.
It is probably worth remembering that Milo was cancelled in 2016-2017 because he had the audacity to describe how predatory gay men prey on underage boys. Some say he seemed to condone it. But was it untrue? Or has it changed? Or was Milo just being honest? Likewise, is he being honest about the rampant promiscuity of the gay lifestyle? Even in supposedly married gay households? Judge these questions for yourself.
Obviously our society and culture has become more gay and continues to move in that direction. Ask yourself, is this healthy? Gay acceptance has gone from, we just want to be treated equally and get married like everyone else to the gay lifestyle, here I mean the aggregate of the whole spectrum of alphabet people, and its effect on society, is completely beyond criticism. This is not an overstatement; when they are mutilating children with impunity, their conduct is beyond criticism. That is the very least we can say about it.
So, it has gotten to the point that I think we need to take a considered look at the topic. Believe me, love him or hate him, we could do a lot worse than Milo as a starting point.