Still too busy to blog and when I do return it won’t be here. Possibly back in late June.
Someone posing as Creationist C. David Parsons went on a bit of a spree last night posting various homophobic comments across a number of blogs. They seemed to have a bit too high opinion of their intellect and there were some clues this wasn’t genuine Parsons lunacy but an impostor. I assume it’s someone’s idea of a jape to mock a creationist. It’s no challenge or effort and can be fun sometimes. More often I feel pity rather than amused by creationist ignorance, but there you go.
What is ugly about this action though is the casual dropping homophobia into the comments. Many creationists are homophobes, but it’s not a universal so there’s two problems. One is that it’s dishonest. Y’know the whole ‘lying for Jesus’ schtick that creationists get right mocked for. That’s not an invitation to ‘lie for reality’. It’s a particularly bad idea for a pro-humanist to do this because there’s already enough smears that evolution is a hoax out there. This bonfire doesn’t need any more wood chucking on it by someone who can’t stand by his own ideas.
The other problem is that the defence on many blogs is that Darwin wasn’t homosexual. That’s true. He documented his attraction a woman, so at best he was bisexual, which is a whole different bundle of fun. What bothers me about these denials is that it reinforces the old ‘homosexuality is something to be ashamed of’ cliché. Darwin could have serviced 20 sailors a night for all it matters. So long as it was consensual I couldn’t care less. It has bugger all to do with the veracity of evolution. Feeding the whole Homosexuality = Anal Sex stereotype might seem amusing, but in reality it plays into strengthening homophobic attitudes. There’s a lot more to homosexuality than penetration, even if that it’s the obsession of some men who are scared by their own sexuality. Foreplay is not just a golfing term.
So rather like the creationists, I can’t help but feel pity for whoever it was. You have to feel pity for someone who has lost their grip on reality to such an extent they introduce themselves by exhibiting their own sexual insecurities. They’ve pretty much become what they find so objectionable. Though I can offer some helpful advice - if you are after some intimate attention, I wouldn’t leap straight to the end.* Try and establish if there’s mutual interest. I’m sure there’s some websites around where you could find discreet ways of indicating your desires.
Thanks to Brian Larnder at Primordial Blog for speaking about his concerns over this.
Additional:
The blog the comment linked to was attributed to Corey Washington. Corey Washington appears to be informed well informed about how to impersonate someone on Blogger because he claims he recently caught someone else doing it (not a pleasant link). Unfortunately he didn’t learn well enough. Scroll to the bottom and click on Corey Washington’s name for his profile. Yes, that’s the Quest for Right blog listed as his.
*Unintentional double-entendre.
