Like I said, sexual fear and hatred is what drives rightwing ideology. Glenn Greenwald:
One can only marvel at how developed and richly detailed is the fantasy that he has created and carries around with him -- being on one's knees before a Muslim terrorist, begging and pleading and shaking, dialogue about "having served you." It is really right out of some cheap, trite sadomasochistic pornography script, and yet these fears and truly creepy fantasies are the foundation for their political beliefs, driving most of our political discourse and policy. ...
Bombing and killing Muslims is the only path for avoiding the humiliating scenarios which our nation's war cheerleaders carry around obsessively in their heads, and which are currently filling my inbox. They're not going to be the ones on their knees, begging. They're not going to be the "faggots." Instead, they are going to send others off to fight and bomb and occupy and kill and thereby show who is strong and tough and feel protected.
What Greenwald layers on top of this insight is the racism aspect. It's not just that war-lovers are terrified of being forced to suck cock, they're terrified of being forced to suck a big, dark cock, specifically.
The source of their terror is the thought - probably well-justified - that they would like it.
In their world, being proved to be a homosexual "bottom" would destroy their entire self-image. They would be helpless, lower than women in their zoology, Not-Men. And the very worst would be for them to serve a dark-skinned man, because then their subjugation is complete: They lose all of their deep-seated faith in their own racial superiority.
They fear they would enjoy being forced to serve another man sexually, so they're repulsed. But at the same time, they're fascinated:
Based on what the Catholic League chose to show us about Folsom, it would seem that the Catholic League’s photographer—or Bill Donohue himself, or whoever chose the photos for the Catholic League’s website—has a thing for jocks and beefy guys with hairy tits. I mean, check out the hot guys here , here, and here—all from the Catholic League’s website. Whoever was choosing photos for the Catholic League’s website doesn’t just like firm, hairy man tit, but firm, hairy man ass too.
There are tons of conventionally hot homos at Folsom. But hot homos aren’t the only folks at Folsom—after all, hot,
straightbi Matisse was there. Yet conventionally hot guys—and a few conventionally hot girls—are pretty much the only thing the Catholic League wanted to show us. Why do you suppose that is?
They are terrified but they can't look away. Tormented, they invent their own counter-fantasies where they are the ones holding the long, hard, dark penis and telling the source of their agony, "Suck. On. This."
From now on, every time I read one of these nitwits' posts about buying some big, black shiny gun, I am going to laugh my ass off.
(Greenwald link via The Big Blue Grillmaster.)
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