April 26, 2007
Victim!
GayPatriot takes Andrew Sullivan to task for claiming he doesn’t drive because he’s a gay victim. Except, really, that’s not what Andrew was saying:
It’s a choice the way so many things in life are. I was a nerdy and reclusive teen who had no social life because of repressed homosexuality. I didn’t need to go anywhere that needed a car, and the train station was a twenty-minute walk.
Here’s how Bruce took it:
Let me praise God and thank my Mom for not raising me to be such a victim. I am sooooo glad I don’t go around each corner to find the “Gay Bogeyman” to use as an excuse for every situation in life.
Good heavens. There are a hell of a lot good reasons to cite for not owning a car…. did throwing out the “Gay Card” do anything more than make him look like a whiny victim of the terribles of the world against gays? (Well yes, it also did make my eyes roll.)
Andrew wasn’t saying ‘If only I wasn’t gay, I could have driven’. He said, essentially: I was nerdy, reclusive and, since I was closeted, I wasn’t dating. So, no need.
How is that claiming to be a victim of gayness, or whatever? Or throwing a Gay Card? Or Blaming anyone?
Oh, right. It’s not
Posted by Henry at 11:20 AM
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