Back into the closet

[binidj]

There's not a great deal can make me ashamed of who I am¹ but every now and then I see something that just makes me want to crawl back into the closet and deny any association with the fucktards with whome I share a sexuality. To clarify, I just saw an article³ entitled "NHS Pulls Funding On Gay Smoking Cessation" ... reading it just confirmed my fears. I mean, what the hell are my special cultural needs that mean that normal smoking cessation services won't work for me? It's (demands for) special treatment like this that I firmly believe fuels prejudice and hostility, and I don't want any part of it. For goodness' sake, there are chronic funding shortages in the NHS and these idiots are bitching about losing support for a smoking cessation course which by its nature excludes most of the population ... it's just sickening.

Then again, maybe I don't understand the special issues involved because I am, in fact, not gay ... perhaps the definitions have become about cultural issues rather than about who you play "hide the salami" with ... and gods protect me from that repulsive edifice known (ironically I have to suppose) as gay "culture."

¹ Ok sometimes my weirdo hobbies² can make me shuffle my feet a bit.
² Tabletop, live and online roleplaying games.
³ There was a link from a survey I filled in ... I don't think I shall be a regular visitor.

Comments

[westernind.livejournal.com]

>white-middle class

Nah - whiteys and the bourgeois are relatively socially privileged classes. Dunno about them horse-lovers though. They have recently had a nekkid Daniel Radcliffe thrust upon them.

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