Assbag of the Week
Once again, Tucker the F*cker gets my vote.
This time, for advocating violence against gay men. Runners-up award to Scarborough and Abrams for laughing.
As an aside, I don't actually believe Tucker Carlson could slam anyone's anything into a stall. He's about as masculine as a wet noodle.
posted by kate @ 7:55 PM
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What I am about to say hopefully will not come back to bite me in the ass, or balls for that matter. When I was a junior in HS, sixteen years old, I was exposed to one of these bathroom events. I grew up on a farm in the south. So plug in all the stereotypical attributes of a southern redneck, complete with a Southern Baptist upbringing. I happened also to be a brainy kind of kid, and had the opportunity to engage in some “college exposure” while still in high school. The year was 1969. While I was in a stall at the local college, (I have to admit as a cow puncher the word stall in the context I am using it just sounds funny), I was mortified to see a hand and then face underneath the partition. I was at first surprised, then scared. I immediately packed up and left. I was so scared that I purposefully went the opposite direction of my dorm room. I was paranoid, thinking the person knew who I was and was following me. It was hours before I went to my room, but I never felt safe.
I have had two more similar experiences in my life. One was in college (I got a 4 yr scholarship to a northern college, imagine that) when I randomly roomed with a male acquaintance 2000 miles away from our college campus (age 19), and one was at an early a.m. rest stop in NC when my sister and I were traveling cross country to see our dying father (age 20). At each time, I was scared. I had done nothing to invoke any thing. In the last encounter, I lied and told the guy I was with my wife. He asked me if maybe she wanted to get something on. My sister was pissed at me because she wanted to sleep in her cramped car and I said we had to get the hell out of there. I have also had countless approaches by women across the states, in many different settings. I did not feel the same fear, but my escape from the situation was the same.
I also had the unpleasant experience of dealing with a neighboring 11 year old that exposed himself in a somewhat aggressive manner to my 65 year old mother.
I have taken courses in human sexuality and worked with an eclectic group of people. At the age of 23-25, my work friend and I both needed a place to live. He and I rented an apartment. He was gay. My straight friends had concerns about me. I felt assured that nothing was contagious, either way. We lived together for about two years until I got married.
I have related this background to try to paint a picture that I am not closed minded to one’s sexuality. What I am trying to get to is defining a specific behavior, and then analyzing it from different perspectives. The risk I take using the original post is the definition of the word “bothered”. For the sake of argument, suppose a man approached a woman and “bothered” her to the point that she was “transgressed“. If she chooses to react to the man, even if there is a delay and she had the ability to escape, but chooses to seek revenge, is she bashing his heterosexuality?
This seemed to work before - ok - release the hounds.
There are many men who, when hit on by other men, react with violence. Obviously this can even lead to death in some instances. I have students who say, "I'd kick his ass!"
Give me a break. Why not just feel flattered? I say. And leave it at that.
Being bothered in a rest room is a different story. This is illegal behavior - soliciting sex is such a way - so have the perv arrested. In this day and age, advocating violence against any gay man is irresponsible. Because it happens too often.
Plus Tucker's such a weenie. And full of shit.
I think I am getting the message.
It is not about the act, it is about the sexual orientation.
Part 1
If straight man does x - we do y
If gay man does x - we do z
If by-sexual man does x - we look in mirror and face our conflict.
Part 2
I agree with your statement that “Being bothered in a rest room is a different story. This is illegal behavior - soliciting sex is such a way - so have the perv arrested.”
I wonder how the gay community feels about the public discussion of “illegal rest room behavior” being magnified because the perpetrator is gay and/or is a closeted gay public figure hypocrite.
Someone said this yesterday about the "bow tie basher".
One could knock out Tucker with a heavy thought.
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