Gay Bashing and the Irrational Fear of All Things Gay

Gay bashing, a trite term for a nasty insidious act perpetrated by people (one would imagine) who possess low IQ and/or self-esteem. There's a lot that doesn't make sense about it. The illogic of beating on someone because they have a different sexual outlook to yourself can only point to sexual confusion on behalf of the perpetrator. One can't help but feel that a big part of the impulse for these acts come from a deep-seated sexual insecurity and self-doubt. After all what does the straight man have to fear from the gay man? I submit nothing. But for arguments sake lets propose that the straight man is worried that perhaps he may inadvertently change his sexual preference and become gay just by being in a gay man's presence. Somebody should remind the straight populace of the World that for every gay man out there, there is one less male competitor to worry about for your regular testosterone laden straight man on the prowl. Indeed, straight men should in fact be running around thanking a good majority of the gay populace for effectively taking themselves off the market and giving the rest of us a chance. It is perhaps ironic and hardly seems fair that a large proportion of the gay market seems to be better looking and more in tune with female sensibilities than the regular straight populace. An ironic twist of fate. Maybe straight men are envious that gays can communicate so openly and freely with women, optimizing the 'playing it cool factor' that men find hard to keep up in the presence of a woman they are attracted to.

O.K. I must apologize for the never-ending use of the word 'Gay', but really what other word could I use. 'Homosexual', hmm maybe not and while we're on the subject who thought up the word 'Gay' as a reference point for homosexuality. Gay leads to a vision of an effeminate fey little thing with a droopy hand and exaggerated hip-swinging walk, whereas terms like 'same sex partner's' or 'life partner' gives the image of a far more normal male countenance. The word 'Gay' has become synonymous with things that are ineffectual, pathetic, pointless or useless. Like a grown man shaving his armpits (gay) or listening to Barbara Streisand (gay), crying at the movies (gay), drinking lite-beer (gay), opening up to his buddy's at work (gay), dressing up in a Star Wars Storm trooper outfit (gay), saying things like 'we're all winners' (gay) or singing along to Abba's 'Dancing Queen' (gay) and so the list goes on.

It is a curious thing that once men become imprisoned that the act of same-sex sex and or rape isn't considered gay at all. No, no, my no! That wouldn't do would it. To offend the delicate sensibilities of all the murderers, rapists etc. that are holed up across America & to infer that man on man sex in Prison is about as gay as gay can be. And that's pretty gay my fine feathered friends. There does seem to be a curious (get out of 'gay' free card) that prison inmates automatically pick up when they enter our fine electrically fenced establishments. A most curious law that holds its moral principles within the walls of the prison block, whereby those inmates who do bugger, roger and otherwise sodomise other inmates (be it consensual or not) manage to avoid the apparent stigma of being marked 'gay'. In an ironic twist of fate these are the same people who would probably beat up and/or rape any gay man who might find himself likewise incarcerated which is ironic in the worst possible way.