20220214 Newsletter
The Adele thing seems fake, Reddit Gaytransman group that is surreal, stop worrying about whether Gay is natural.
GAY IDENTIFIED TRANSMEN DISCOVERING REALITY - SAD AND HILARIOUS AND DELUSIONAL
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/
It is actually sad. It is so surreal in its delusions and ideas I have to consider that it might be a fake site set up by anti-trans activists, but they have 8.2k members.
One post wonders why Gay men on Grindr aren’t being like straight men courting straight women. One post discusses deceiving Gay men to have sex with them.
ADELE AND TRANS ACTIVISTS – IS IT REAL? SEEMS SORT OF FAKE.
I am not able to tell if Adele is actually being attacked by trans activists in general. I know that the right-wing press has been reporting that she has been, but the trans groups are reporting that not only trans groups are not attacking Adele but the story is made up.
I since I have run across made up things, fake things, which are put out there to be examples of trans extremism, I can’t assume that Adele is being attacked. I also haven’t found a good source on whether Adele is being attacked or not.
It does show that trans activists would be in real trouble if they attacked someone like Adele. Also, I do know that the attacks on Lil Nas X weren’t reported, because the Alphabet Soup knew that attacking Lil Nas X would be disastrous.
I am tending to think this is fake, and it has wasted my time.
FACEBOOK GROUPS FOR GAY ART UPDATED
Added in a photography group. You can see it at:
GAY BOOK
Got some writing done this week, but need to finish the section on Gays being different. I think then I will publish a section.
“NATURAL” AND “UNNATURAL” AND THE ARGUMENTS OF INTIMIDATED GAYS
I know this was a separate post, but I want to have it in one of the newsletters also.
In response to some anti-Gay haters that homosexuality is unnatural some activists find instances of two animals of the same sex having sexual activity and point it out to show that homosexuality is “natural.” Perhaps this is strategic, but I think that it empowers a debate about something being natural or not. The whole idea of things being “natural” therefore legitimate and being “unnatural” and therefore illegitimate, a stupid idea, is in itself legitimized.
Empowering reactionary ideas is not good for the Gay community in general. Also, this can lead to discussions of whether what is natural for one species is natural in another species, or is the activity of a species really homosexual, or really a non-equivalent activity, but is retrograde in a more advanced species, or something else. You are entangling our right to exist with the whole topic of zoology.
Biologists do point out that homosexual activity in animals isn’t necessarily equivalent to human homosexuality. So yes, you will be entangling Gay rights with the whole topic of zoology. Is there some animal that has equivalent activity to human homosexuality? How do we know it is equivalent? How do we know that homosexuality in that species isn’t due to some defect or environmental stress or some negative factor? Yes, it is an endless entanglement with zoology and suddenly you will have to be keeping up with the publish literature on the Spotted Obnoxious Noisy Raucous Gray Finch.
However, this is not the major point as to why the whole natural idea of homosexuality is stupid.
This whole idea that something is okay because it is natural and some things are bad because they are unnatural is foolish. It is something left over from the 19th century and early 20th century. Usually, the idea was designed so people could support the existing unequal order of things as being the “natural order.” Or to push the idea that society was becoming decadent and immoral since people didn’t have to live an earlier harder material condition of existence which was held to be more natural and hence leading people to live a certain supposedly more natural way of an earlier better moral code. There are always some people who imagine some morally pure primordial existence of humanity in which people were “natural” and not distorted by contemporary society, whatever that distortion might be.
People who talk about something being “natural” and hence good, or something “unnatural,” hence bad lack comprehension about what they are saying.
What happens in nature is hardly the standard upon which to base human behavior and society. The Praying Mantis female insect often devours the head of the male during copulation. Female spiders in many species eat the male spider after its completed insemination. In bee hives if there is no queen needing mating and it is winter when resources are scarce, the male bees, drones, are dragged out of the hive by worker bees and left to die. I knew a Gay person who had a degree in entomology who never tired of pointing out at least one example each day. The Ichneumon wasps, common every day insects, are a horror story, imagine the movie “Alien,” but they are natural and without them plants in nature would be devoured and devastated.
Lice are natural. Disease is natural. Starvation is a commonplace in the natural world as well as being eaten alive. Slavery exists in the animal kingdom among ants. Pre-historical nomadic humanity had much shorter life spans, even when considering only those who managed to live past five years of age. Atrocious rates of infant mortality were natural. Being unbathed is natural. War seems to be an ongoing human trait.
Unnatural things are soap, writing, publishing, symphonic music, faucets with running water, vaccines, antibiotics, common long-life spans, woven clothing, oil paintings, glass windows, toilets, showers, central-heating, techno and many other good things which aren’t natural.
Talking about things being natural or unnatural as to criticize a human practice is sloppy thinking. It has no validity.
Historically is has been considered that homosexuality is an art or practice that is an accomplishment.
Kobo Daishi, a hugely influential monumental person in Japanese cultural history, is traditionally held to be the inventor of hiragana, one of the two Japanese alphabets used in modern Japanese writing, a major school of Japanese Buddhism, is also held to have introduced male-love into Japanese.
This source informs readers about his huge influence in Japanese Buddhism, but avoids mention of his homosexuality.
https://tricycle.org/magazine/who-was-kobo-daishi/
A reference to Daishi’s introduction of “male love” to Japan.
https://legacyprojectchicago.org/person/kukai
I don’t believe that one can chose to be Gay or choose any type of homosexual attraction.
However, what we have here in Japanese history is the idea that homosexuality could be an invention or practice, an accomplishment in human civilization.
Imagine that, advocating homosexuality because it is enjoyable and another option for sex.
However, in our society with its sex-is-a-sin attitudes pushed by malicious Christians, what purports itself to be the leadership of the LGBTQXYZ are so intimidated that they would never advocate that homosexuality is an opportunity to enjoy sex in a new way, or a cultural enrichment.
Instead, they fall back on asserting Gay is to be tolerated in three ways.
1. That it is innate, born that way, so we can’t change it and we can’t help it. It would be mean to blame us.
2. Some animal species are observed doing something that might be construed as homosexual. Perhaps that the Western Eye-Pecking Sharp Bill Wren was observed doing something that might be considered homosexual so its natural and so likely to be innate.
3. Or that it is found in ancient history someplace. Usually this is in the response to an assertion that homosexuality is either a foreign introduction to a society or a form of modern decadence.
The third argument can be used strategically, but it doesn’t seem to occur to the neoliberal LGBTQXYX that perhaps homosexuality might be seen as an invention or part of progress in human history. We don’t find in ancient times smart phones, vaccines, flush toilets, or toilet paper, all unnatural and all modern, but generally highly valued and not needing to be found in pre-modern history to be justified.
This zoological talk about homosexuality is pathetic. It needs to stop.
As for the homophobes, tell them to go to god damned hell.