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“April is the cruellest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) in his 1922 poem “The Waste Land.”
As we all now know — whether or not we’d rather forget it, they won’t let us forget it — June is now federally designated as Pride Month, but I doubt that on the surface, Eliot would have had a problem with the abstract notion of pride.
If you somehow possessed the scientific and metaphysical power to take Eliot’s cremated ashes, temporarily reconstruct them into his prior animate form, and say, “No, we’re talking about gay pride,” he probably wouldn’t have objected to that, either. When he was alive, the word “gay” was synonymous with “happy.” He likely would have said there’s nothing wrong with being proud about being happy, nor with being happy about being proud. But then if you told him that in modern parlance, a “gay” person is someone who back in his day would have been referred to as a homosexual, a sodomite, a faggot, a queer, a fairy, a poofter, a pansy boy, or a cocksucker, he’d probably twist up his face and say, “Why on Earth would anyone be proud of that rather than deeply ashamed? Even worse, why did you let me rest in peace for 101 years just to wake me up and tell me that?”
He also would have been upset to hear that the homosexual activists — who these days don’t seem like they’ll be truly happy until every child is born with a pre-inserted buttplug — had outright stolen an innocent synonym of “happy” and smeared feces, sperm, and HIV all over it.
Regarding the notion of “gay pride,” Norm Macdonald once joked, “That’s an odd thing to be proud of, you know? Because it’s not an achievement, you know, it’s not like you work all your life to be gay or anything like that.” Norm went on to note that it’d be strange to see one dad bragging to another by showing him a picture of his son sucking another man’s cock.
Doesn’t matter, though — they claim to be proud of it. They claim it so loudly and repeatedly, it almost sounds like constant self-reassurance rooted in shame and insecurity. And “Pride Month” doesn’t only refer to homosexual men anymore. The most extensive alphabet-soup acronym I’ve seen that embraces these “alternative sexualities” is LGTBQIA2S+, which stands for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, [and] Two-Spirit.” I’m not sure I even want to know what the plus sign represents. It’s not unrealistic, at least not the way the rainbow ball seems to be rolling, to presume that one day there will be a “P” for pedophiles, a “Z” for zoophiles, and an “N” for necrophiles. Isn’t there room for everyone at the Rainbow Inn?
In the months leading up to Pride Month, a long-simmering American culture war erupted into a volcanic explosion between two fundamentally incompatible segments of what some people still like to pretend is one nation. On one side, you have the LGTBQIA2S+ bloc and all of their “allies,” sympathizers, and enablers. On the other side, you have conservatives, traditionalists, Christians — whose Bible, lest we forget, explicitly condemns faggotry — and what I’d reckon is a solid chunk of people whom I reckon don’t have a problem with what you shove up your ass so much as they don’t like it being shoved down their throats, especially when children get dragged into the whole toxic stew.
Some people who in this insanely polarized culture would have preferred to maintain a credo of “live and let live” are likely wondering, “How did this ‘gay pride’ thing go from ‘keep the government out of our bedrooms’ to ‘Drag everyone, including kids, into our bedrooms and force them to watch?’ And why was I sleeping when the simple idea of tolerance somehow got mangled into the government, media, schools, and corporations declaring that you’re hateful and mentally ill if you think there’s something wrong with hacking kids’ genitalia and feeding them puberty blockers?”
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I suspect that the Black Lives Matter movement and 2020’s Summer of Floyd infected untold millions of ordinarily tolerant people with Negro Fatigue, or as I like to truncate it, “Neeg Fatigue.” I’m getting the sense that all this hard-fisted queer overreach has finally led to Fag Fatigue, or possibly Fagtigue.
In concrete terms, the pushback may have started in Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis — who was elected in 2018 by a razor-thin margin when he ran against a bisexual black man and was then reelected in a landslide four years later, possibly because he began pushing things such as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill — has openly accused corporations such as Disney of “sexualizing children.”
Whereas the public may have been conditioned over the past few generations to be A-OK with adult homos doing adult-homo things in the privacy of their own adult-homo homes, it’s probably still a bit too early for the Usual Suspects to get away with “normalizing” pedophilia.
In early April, after tranny “influencer” Dylan Mulvaney announced his — call me a “transphobe” all you want, you histrionic sissy-Marys, but I’m still going to use objectively proper pronouns — partnership with Bud Light, it led to such an ongoing backlash against normal, red-blooded American weight-conscious beer-drinkers that sales of what was heretofore America’s best-selling beer have plummeted by almost a third.
More recently, retail-sales titan Target suffered a similar backlash — or would a more apt term be “faglash”? — after it rolled out its very prominently displayed “#takepride” line of queer-friendly merchandise such as “tuck-friendly” swimsuits for “trans women,” toddlers’ apparel, children’s books with titles such as “Bye Bye, Binary,” and even a “Pride Backpack Dog Harness” for your homosexual pet. Especially in the South, Target outlets “moved Pride merchandise from the front of the stores to backroom areas or deeper into the stores after confrontations and backlash from shoppers.” A rap song called “Boycott Target” by someone who calls himself “Forgiato Blow” — of course a fag-bashing rapper would call himself “Blow” — shot to the #1 spot on iTunes’ most popular chart. By the end of May, the faglash has reportedly cost Target $11 billion in losses.
Was it the “tuck-friendly” swimsuit that turned the tide? Like a turtle tucks its head back into its shell due to fear, will an eroding bottom line force corporate America to stop allowing these aggressive, hostile, hysterical, totalitarian, and sometimes even murderous members of the Pride coalition to stop letting it all hang out and start tucking it all back in? Was it the fact that even members of Congress started calling for a boycott of the camping-gear company North Face when they started using drag queens in their ads? Or was the fact that Kohl’s is now selling “Pride Bodysuits” for babies the straw that broke the gay camel’s back?
Just as T. S. Eliot’s reconstituted cremains probably wouldn’t be too happy to be informed about Pride Month, I don’t think the ghost of Henry Ford would feel too “gay” about knowing that the auto company he founded came out with a “Very Gay Raptor” rainbow truck during last year’s Pride Month.
In my grade school, our preferred term of derision for male homosexuals was “gaybirds.” Somewhere over the rainbow, I hope the gaybirds shut the fuck up. And it’d be wise of them to leave the grade-schoolers out of it.
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28 comments
Don’t forget to throw juneteenth into the mix. Luckily June’s nice sunny days helps make one forget about all the depravity.
It’s pronounced “Juneteenf.”
Kind of like Birfday
don’t matter what you call it, it’s what you do about it.
We can only hope that the mexican cartels can increase the amounts of fentanyl being brought in.
I’m thinking about having a t-shirt made that reads PROUD DISABLED LESBIAN BIPOC, complete with the black power fist and a pink lesbo triangle. If anyone accosts me, I will loudly tell them I am on my personal journey and living my truth and they can’t tell me how I identify. The struggle is real.
I’d wear one. It would probably look better poolside than my plain brown Blatz Beer T- shirt.
April may have been “the cruelest month,” for Eliot, but were he to resurrect himself today he’d likely conclude that every month in Rainbow America is the mounting experience of a “waste land.”
Instead of Eliot, I’ll take John G. Whittier:
“O, for boyhood’s time of June
crowding years in one brief moon
When all things I heard or saw,
me, their master, waited for.”
Isn’t that the kind of June YOU want? Had?
Another tour de force. ’Gay’ is a delightful word and name that’s been put in a dungeon and had unspeakable things done to it for decades only to emerge as a golem bent on crushing what’s left of normalcy. See also ‘gender’ which was stolen from the classics library with the same intent.
Mr de Santis for all hs posturing hasn’t quite stopped the madness in schools only delayed it until bamitzvah time. Meanwhile he is instituting, in the most abject possible way, a pseudo-normalization which conceals the near-impossibility of criticizing the new rulers.
Let’s resurrect ‘Gay’ and ‘Queer’ both — these two labels say everything that needs to be said of that crowd.
As does the words “sexual deviant”.
The Bible’s condemnation of faggotry…
Not exactly as explicit as I’d like it to be.
Just sayin.
what? Leviticus 20:13
“If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.”
Death is not explicit I guess.
That is Old Testament and you know (or maybe you don’t) that Christ (God Himself in human form) came to make all things, including old Moses laws, new. Where in the NT (particularly in the words in red) is there any such language? I’m not defending homosexuality, it’s a sin like any other but Christ didn’t explicitly condemn it while He walked on Earth.
From Romans 1:
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, …”
When Nietzsche wrote his THE GAY SCIENCE, he surely could not imagine that 140 years later people would smile, just looking at the title of his book.
Fröhlich (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft) doesn’t have the same faggy connotations auf deutsch as “gay” does in English.
Herr Nietzsche would not have written something titled DIE SCHWULE WISSENSCHAFT. :))
Also, the logo of the German clothes shops C&A have had a rainbow ribbon on it, and nobody saw in this something unusual, but simply beautiful colors.
My pronouns are quite simple and cover the whole of the human race: He, She, and It.
And my one word into which the whole lot can be tucked back in: “Queer”. This old word for the rainbow fairies still covers the whole array of hidden insanities in one understandable word, which had served us for generations of observing their bizarre behaviors for decades, if not centuries.
Thank heavens for remote controls on the TV which allows one to blot out the commercial reminders of the strange ways of about 10% of humanity.
Great post by Goad.
I do have to add a ‘mea culpa’ to my derision of the gay lot, for I am convinced that most of their troubles are due to hormone imbalance or some other chemical problem within the body and/or brain. As with any persons who are ‘not perfectly put together’, either from birth or later injuries, we have to be more caring. But their strutting down Santa Monica Blvd. in sparkles and pink ostrich feathers is to be avoided, if at all possible. ‘Nuff said.
The p was an original part of the gay movement that was jettisoned because it was thought too controversial for the general public at the time and would prevent the thing going forward.
Today, with the endless promotion of LGBT, everyone knows it’s top down. It’s clearly a function of economic might – exclusively a concern of a pool of corporations over a certain size and worth threshold who have a captive audience. “Go create your own Target bigot” isn’t possible.
So these corporations can just insist you look at this. It’s imposed because it can be. There’s no opposition.
Even the US military appears to be fighting for this corporate world and this bloc’s flag is the rainbow one. So you could literally have Armageddon launched under the basis of LGBT symbols. (One reason I could not give a shit for Ukraine’s precious white nationalism in the grand scheme of things).
How did we get here ? Chomsky talks about the 50 trillion wealth transfer to the 1%. You also have mergers of corporations into just a tiny superficial number. Endless deregulation and lobbying for favorable corporate conditions. Endless tax breaks for the rich. And you can go back further to when whites handed over media ownership to Jews. It didn’t happen overnight, but it’s happened relatively quickly. There’s been an ungodly consolidation of power.
This power can do anything it likes. But it’s main thing it has to do is protect itself from any popular movement in the future.
How do you do that ? An offensive defense might be the best strategy here. You scramble for moral instruments and insist on moral observances that suit you and move moral discussions away from your activities: so racism, sexism, anti-gay, anti-trans.
You create this strange, polarizing diversion – LGBT insistence as a sacred icon of tolerance. Suddenly all human virtue potential rests on cheering acceptance of walking past a parade of men twerking in leather thongs as you take your kids to the store.
Nothing to do with that 50 trillion. Nothing to do with the fact a lot of people can never own a house. That they live off of exploitative crappy wages from crappy jobs that are tenuous anyway due to the endless tsunami of crappy immigrants taking their jobs and keeping wages down. The destruction of the entire West. The erosion of borders. The outsourcing to China. The devastating environmental destruction (I’m not talking about climate change). Huge white collar crimes as well. Huge medical problems – opioids and so on.
When there is some commercial backlash and millions, even billions are wiped out of corporate value it’s not nothing. We should be appreciate it. But the temporary loss and noise is preferable to popular accountability of who is holding this wealth and it lets people feel some power, let’s them let off steam. Better that than these corporate leaders are hung and their assets confiscated and redistributed.
But notice the race mixing adverts remain. So they pushed back on queers and trannies for a bit, but accepted the race mixing adverts. You can see the game being played.
And who is objecting ? Good if whites are. But some of this is also the fault of white people who are fat lazy consumers. White fucking trash. “Gimme my beer and donuts and Netflix”. Just let me consume my stuff. Too many whites don’t give a shit what’s happening over the years on a structural level. They think it’s kooky even thinking about it. Donuts matter, pizza matters. Netflix matters. We hear a lot of anti-Christian stuff on the right. But most white people’s Christianity is consumption. That is God to them. That is Jesus. Jesus is donuts, beer, pizza and Netflix.
If something goes too far, “Now my beer has a picture of a tranny on it”, it’s interfering with their consumption a bit so it’s bad.
The problem is this is not how Jews see the world. Jews do care. They care a lot about that structural stuff. And they are looking ahead into the future. So you have one group that doesn’t care and mostly wants to drift along passively consuming, and another that does care, proactively trying to make stuff happen for themselves.
Sorry we lose. And we have lost.
In a normal country, Goad’s routine would be packing stadiums like George Carlin used to do. Not here in bizarro world.
Hear, hear.
As Jared Taylor has put forth, I don’t see good reason to hostile to the homos just because of their likes. They’ve been in existence since ancient times and most likely before that (anyone seen any ancient Greek or Roman pottery?). Of course, like any movement, there are a few loudmouths who never shut up and are always trying to test limits. So I’ve always maintained that kids and teenagers are endlessly impressionable and confused and are in no position to make permanent claims about their sexuality… or whether they can drop out of school, but a gun, drink alcohol, be fucking each other recklessly, etc. Some of these kids making such a scene seem to be the expected product of a self obsessed, social media driven culture. They are far too special to be a regular drag queen… they will have to invent some new genders, gerunds and pronouns. At the same time, you can’t trust that a 16 year old is still going to enjoy a dumb tattoo in 30 years, but somehow we are to believe there will never be buyer’s remorse for permanent changes brought about by hormones and surgeries. “Trust the science” is heard. I know plenty of scientists, engineers and technically oriented folk and that is never a phase I hear from them. They know well enough that their realms can have biases, errors and fraud… not to mention be subject to pressure from CEOs, Deans or politicians to only pursue directions that are more likely to give a desired result or at least something that isn’t awkward.
The most remarkable thing in the above article is sign that protests and boycotts can work for the Right. It seems that for the past 10-20 years corporations have been terrified of only leftists boycotts and twitter campaigns, while the right would get caught on camera behaving awkwardly if protesting at all. The growth of wokism has been fueled by corporations fearful of boycotts and declining sales, so this is a major step that can grow to other realms. I don’t see rainbow flags as a major priority when there is unchecked immigration, a border crisis, endless affirmative action, the end of meritocracy and a bullseye painted on your back white fellah. Wearing a rainbow flag isn’t the same as a Kevlar vest.
Doesn’t matter, though — they claim to be proud of it. They claim it so loudly and repeatedly, it almost sounds like constant self-reassurance rooted in shame and insecurity.
Ever been around Puerto Ricans? Every one of those idiots has their stupid flag plastered all over everything they own and has to inform everyone they meet within three seconds that they’re Puerto Rican. Same wine, different bottles.
June is known as “June Gloom” in Southern California, since the desert is heating up and blowing hot air overhead toward the sea which causes masses of fog to roll back into the L.A. Basin, thus turning everything grey. This year, now with the name change, I hope it dampens the spirits of the Pride Day Parade in West Hollywood!
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