Stop Complaining and Start Thanking Straight People!
The UKIP did not get a mention in the article London Elections and the Queer Vote. I did not realise that anyone took them seriously and so did not raise any editorial objections.
This follows the story of the bizarre Dr Julia Gasper, UKIP candidate for election to the council of Oxford City’s Quarry and Risinghurst ward, who has written, “Homosexuality (as Jean-Paul Sartre said) is simply a form of behaviour, not like being black at all. Black people could and did for thousands of years live independently on another continent, but homosexuals can only exist as a by-product of a heterosexual society. Homosexuals are completely dependent on heterosexuals to create them. Curiously they never express any gratitude for this, while complaining constantly of persecution.”
This is not a logical mind at work. I can only imagine what Dr Gasper, who is a lecturer in English Literature at Stanford University Centre in Oxford, teaches in her classes.
The UKIP opposes equal marriage, and Dr Gasper adds that, “We ought to reflect that there is a strong connection between male homosexuality and paedophilia. Why hush it up?” When Pink News ran a story about the dread Dr Gasper and her ill-researched claims, the woman herself thanked Pink News for increasing her readership, but then said of its readers, “The more you make anonymous death threats against me and hysterical accusations of being a murderer, the more deranged you all sound. It’s a shame that most of you are completely mad and need to be sectioned under the Mental Health Act. Just ring up your GP, tell him your symptoms and ask for help.”
There will always be people making outrageous comments on forums. Gasper is clearly looking for a fight, and will take one where she can get it. Shooting your mouth off, particularly when you are a teacher and a politician is for the amateurs, and the irresponsible amateurs at that.
This is what Stephen Gray at Pink News wrote reporting on Gasper’s reaction: “Since PinkNews.co.uk wrote of Dr Gasper’s blog posts, the blog’s follower numbers have risen by over thirty percent, from three to four.” Touché!
Obviously there is no need to take the UKIP all that seriously.
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It might be worth getting in touch with her workplace (Stanford University Centre in Oxford) to ask whether this is the kind of publicity it wants to attract. As a private university devoted to creating ‘cultured and useful’ people, it might feel happier with faculty members who show respect for diversity. As a foreign-based university, it might also prefer teachers who welcome foreigners to the UK, rather than one whose political party froths at the mouth at the merest mention of internationalism. But maybe rich Americans are a special case. (That’s always assuming she works there – her name doesn’t appear to be on the site…)
I doubt a private university minds, as it is neither respected academically nor anything more than a money making machine. The fact UKIP are extreme in all their views does need to be highlighted more though, they are allowed to get away with many extreme right views because no one ever challenges them.
On the contrary, private universities are far more sensitive to negative publicity than public structures, precisely because they rely on the economic validity of their image. To be seen as a haven for extremism is the last thing most private universities, in the US or elsewhere, would want.
As a UKIP member, can I point out, it is not true to say that ‘UKIP are extreme in all their views’. If you look at the policies on the UKIP website you will see this. Julia Gasper did expess some pretty extreme views, most of which I completely disagee with, in a very provocative way. But UKIP immediately announced that her views do not accord with UKIP policy and are purely personal. The main result for her is that she has been subjected to a vicious campaign of abuse and threats, including death threats, and is now afraid to go out of her house. Is this what lesbian and gay people want? For anyone who criticises or offends them to be threatened and intimidated in this appalling way. I know that many gay people have also suffered abuse and intimidation, but does it make it any better to do the same to others?
I would also like to point out that these remarks of Julia Gasper were made in private emails, which have been leaked by a malicious individual. That doesn’t make them any more acceptable, but could you please consider not making the situation worse by spreading inflammatory publicity and inciting further hatred?
Thanks.
When you go out of your way to falsely stir up hatred against people who are tired of being persecuted, you have to expect that they will fight back, eventually. Yes, death threats are extreme, and even tho’ I have yet to hear of any gay person actually killing a straight person over persecution, can you say the opposite? Can you then understand why gays are tired of being lied about in these insane ways? (Yes, I used the word INSANE on PURPOSE) UKIP may have “announced her views are not theirs”, but the very fact that they are still officially associated with her speaks louder.
The UKIP Sounds exactly like it’s equally evil twin sister, The Republican Party of the United States, or as some of us call them, Re-Puke-licans, Republitards, and the Reich Wing.
The above comment by Michael just about typifies the kind of unthinking hysteria which surrounds these sort of subjects. You can’t debate rationally with people like that, so I won’t bother!
…except that it’s Michael who’s right.
You are right. These gay fanatics are far away in their own delusional world and have lost touch with reality.
If your proof of ‘gay fanatics’ is casual commentary on the web you are a deeply flawed researcher.
The stupidity just never ends. My ex’s mother was a psychiatrist. She was the most insane person I’ve ever met. Made about $13K a month and still could not live within her means. Married numerous times and drained the guy dry financially and probably emotionallly as well and had no idea her oldest son used to take his little brothers toys from them and was forcing them to perform sex on him to get their toys back. Found out that her youngest son was doing meth and she came to me to ask me what I would do which totally surprised me. You’d think she’d know how to handle the situation. I told her to stick him in teen boot camp. He liked it, straightened up and went into the army and is now the manager of a very exclusive hotel. Shrinks usually become shrinks because they are trying to figure out what caused their lives to be so messed up. Think about it!
hmmmm, so your idea of ironing out the problems of children who have been abused is to force them into a system that turns them into robots.
I think you have been reading too much Heinlein….Try reading some Orwell. You seriously need to straighten yourself out!
A good example of how homosexuality and paedophilia are connected.
How did the queers let this get past their censorship?
this lady is an ass
How dreadful are the curses which the gay condition has on those who are enslaved to it! Besides the militant frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful Darwinian belief that gays will inherit the earth. The effects are increasingly apparent in many countries. The rise in sexual violence, promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, mental instability, suicidal tendencies, drug taking, a terrible threat to the economy, children, marriage and the family exist wherever the followers of the prophets of the Frankfurt School and their evangelists like Alfred Kinsey and Hugh Hefner rule or live.
Apart from Islam, no stronger retrograde force exists in the world.
Far from being moribund, homosexuality is a militant and proselytising ideology whipped up by the gay liberation fundamentalist movement. This is the product of a thinly veiled rage and hatred of truth, purity, tolerance, equality, righteousness, justice, freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, thought and life itself. No technology, no reasoned debates, no appeal to common sense, or health and safety can stop this cancer eating away at the heart of Western nations. Indeed it is not so much global warming as global queering.
Desperate for identity, and with evangelical hysteria they pump out Stonewellian, LGBTQQIXYZ propaganda. They furiously ferret around the web frantically searching out evidence to prove the existence of a gay gene, or that in fact we are all potentially queer and that it is only a repressed and internalised homophobia that stops us all from enjoying the benefits of fornication, sodomy, paedophilia, pederasty, sadomasochism, exhibitionism, anal-oral sex, rimming, frotteurism, felching, fisting, necrophilia, coprophilia, fetishism, incest, bestiality, zoophilia, hypoxphilia, transvetic fetishism, orchiectomy , apotemnophilia, acrotomophilia, cannibalism and last – but not least – giving the gift of AIDs, HIV and host of other sexually transmitted diseases.
Their narcissism and hypersensitivity is without limits. They scream “homophobia, homophobia, boo,boo” when the slightest criticism, or more likely, a lack of recognition or applause is made towards their strutting cavorting, sweating and grotesque gay pride parades. Whilst the pink dollar has come to dominate government, the film industry, the mass media and every area of life – except the domain of producing the next generation, they still claim that they are an oppressed, victim group on the same level as Jews in the holocaust and blacks during the period of slavery.
One would think that they had already achieved their pink kingdom here on earth, but no! What is that trance induced mantra they repeat? “There is so much more work to do; there is much more to do ” Immersed in their pseudo- scientific, quasi- religious evolutionism they lurch misty eyed and ketamine fuelled towards Never Neverland: an early grave or Sharia- whichever comes first.
Just as ancient Greece and Rome collapsed through homosexual corruption so did the High Renaissance
http://igfculturewatch.com/1998/05/28/homosexuality-in-renaissance-florence/
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Forbidden_Friendships.html?id=2nKiOKHrjtgC&redir_esc=y
http://www.true2ourselves.com/forum/sexual-morality/4792-three-gay-popes.html
http://www.davidmixner.com/2011/09/lgbt-history-five-gay-popes.html
Thank you for your insights. Here is my response:
http://www.polarimagazine.com/editorial/readers-anti-gay-tirade
Sorry for my lack of eloquence, but that’s some funny sh*t from a bombastic know-it-all who apparently knows little. Should we be impressed with all the BIG words? Bet he affects a fake British accent, too.
Being gay is wonderful. I wouldn’t trade it for anything, and I’m proud to be gay. I’m very happy that I was born gay, and it’s really a pity that you’re so full of hate. What’s really ironic though, is that even though you are full of hate and in need of serious psychiatric help, by spewing your nonsense you actually spread happiness because we all have gotten a huge laugh out of reading your bizarre ideas and fantasies about gay people.
It is clear though that your are really practicing what psychiatrists call projection, and your self-loathing is obvious. There have been some new studies that have come out about people like you lately. Any ETA on when you plan on coming out of the closet??
There we hear the same old boring cliches – anybody who criticizes the queer dictatorship is immediately accused of “hate” and of being a repressed queer themselves. What a load of rubbish you queers talk!
There is nobody more seething with hate than you are. To read the filth and aggression on your sites towards anybody who dissents is almost unbearable -your outbursts are the raging of sick minds.
To call some one who objects to gay mania a repressed gay is about as logical as to call someone who refuses to eat meat a “repressed carnivore” or somebody who refuses to vote Democrat a “repressed proletarian”. It is absolute nonsense like the term “homophobia ” itself.
We need to have a geniunely open discussion about all the issues relating this without the pathetic abuse and ignorant rating of the queers who are determined to censor everybody else,
Gay bullying means gays who bully other people.
Calm down. There is no such thing as a ‘queer dictatorship’. Comments on a website do not constitute editorial policy. And extreme comments rarely reflect a general consensus. Your pejorative language makes you no better than the people you are criticising. Open debate does not mean simply defending one’s own corner.
Thanks, Stephanie! You have just provided some candid testimony that homosexuality is connected with paedophilia!
See
https://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1AFAB_enGB470GB475&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=html
Don’t worry, I did give you credit for your contribution to my blog.
You do know that comments on websites do not constitute proof? As an academic you should know that.
Dr Julia,
The pleasure with which you twist a story about a troubled young man into a sweeping suggestion about homosexual behaviour is wildly inaccurate, sick and damaging. Paedophilia is connected to homosexuality in exactly the same way as it is connected to heterosexuality. I know research and evidence are not entities that concern you, and that is your choice. But when you slip into ignorant and abusive behaviour towards any minority group you have to ask yourself – why? Spend a little time today. Go on. Sunday treat.
Polarmi you have started off a totally new article by highlighting my own.
http://www.polarimagazine.com/editorial/readers-anti-gay-tirade
But flattered though I am by the attention, I don’t think I am an attention seeker- at least I hope not. However, narcissism is unfortunately the preserve of the gaystapo and I suppose in some ways they symbolise what is rotten with the whole present western civilisation – its narcissism.
The facts of history are there for all to see. Most people are too lazy to check it out, especially the gaystapo for whom there is no such thing as history except their own dualistic, deluded, deceiving, dishonest, denying, duplicitous, deviant, diverted, diverse, distorted and decadent version of it as amply demonstrated each February with their LGBT History Month. Apparently, according LGBT history, Queen Elizabeth 1 and Winston Churchill were gays; and as for Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan, Jesus and all the disciples and Mary, Martha, Lazarus who probably living in some 1st century polyamorous commune, all this lot were totally gay.
May I also come out and say with some pride , that I am a homophobe. I was born like it; it’s in the genes. I have no choice but to be what I am and though I have tried to repress and fight it all my life, I can now say that the truth has set me free. In fact I have been to psychotherapist after psychotherapist, in order strengthen and affirm my homophile attraction. But to avail. In fact it made me suicidal. But now I am liberated, and as Pop Eye the sailor man said “I yam what I yam.” Marvellous and Out and Proud!
I cannot condone the comments that speculate about you. I think that supposition is irrelevant as your own argument is enough to see that you are mistaken.
There is no central organisation, no ‘gaystapo’. That is not reasoned argument but panic. What is more, the study of history is not about facts but the agreed-upon facts. It is not a science.
Opinions are not genetic, and it is untenable to appropriate the ‘born this way’ rhetoric to reinforce your opinions.
I like your new nickname for the magazine, although you clearly do not understand that comments on a website do not necessarily reflect its editorial policy.
Dr Julia Gasper is a C**T. I’m glad she is being criticised for her ignorant beliefs and hateful comments. She shouldn’t be allowed to teach anyone anything. I feel sorry for her kids & gran-kids if she has any.
Well, there you go, we rest our case with Rob – Ireland’s elegance and economy of rational debate.
May I also publicise other literary gems from the Pink News , an absolute treasure chest of gracious and winsome gay argument. I have made a compilation of personal comments directed at me by just one commentator. Enjoy.:
“David Skinner” you have been a total sad bigot, a person filled with hatred for an irrational reason………I have kicked you in the teeth. It is time for you to let the scales drop from your eyes, put aside your simple childish ways, and grow up! …“****** *******…” “David Skinner” you HAVE been kicked in the teeth, haven’t you!”……“So hatred still drips from your fangs and your very sick mind…………“David Skinner believe in ‘god’. What a pity his ‘god’ is such a joyless, dreary *******“…….”David Skinner” is so suffering from mental illness” ……..“What I am seriously suggesting is that it could well be that “David Skinner” is (clinically) a Paranoid Schizophrenic, relishing life in a world of his own devising, a world dominated and fuelled by his own irrational fears.”………“Jesus, David Skinner, your poor deluded fool……..So **** off with your healing and your “spiritual healing”……..“Your inability to answer that without spewing irrelevant garbage totally destroys your own case.”……….“Really, mind your own ***king business who I sleep with and how. It is not your concern.”…….Poor David Skinner cannot become free of his serious mental illness, for he must realise that religious faith is a mental illness. However, a cause of electric-shock treatment might help………“What a mean old bully that Affidavit Skinnydip is! I doubt any nutty fundamentalist has ever even experienced love. Ah, l’amour…” …….“This poor sad twisted little Christian calling himself “David Skinner”…….“This is the root of poor “David Skinner’s” massive mental problem”
…….“Go away you poor impoverished little creature. You are a primitive still plodding down there in the muck at the base of civilization’s ladder…….You’ve been kicked in the teeth and you know you have no weapons left. …….Develop, evolve, . . . or continue to paddle around in your muck. ..“………“
The writer is just warming up at this stage and I have spared readers of a nervous and delicate disposition with what followed.
Culling negative comments from websites is not proof, as I have previously said. One commentator does not constitute a generalised proof. I wonder what you expect people to write in response to your skewed narratives, that said. You do not debate rationally. Why do you expect it of others?
For someone who claims not to be a narcissist or an attention seeker you write about yourself a lot.
David love, I think you need a hug. Don’t worry. I’ll keep my trousers on x