{"id":441,"date":"2007-12-05T06:28:39","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T11:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-03-21T06:32:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T11:32:04","slug":"do-shut-up-you-horrid-little-homophobe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2007\/12\/05\/do-shut-up-you-horrid-little-homophobe\/","title":{"rendered":"Do shut up you horrid little homophobe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/comicsand.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/im-not-gay-and-frenchie-shouldnt-be.html\">Some guy called Lee running a third rate comics blog exposed his homophobia to the world last week<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"cite\">\n<p>\nHere we go&#8230; I am soooooo friggin&#8217; sick of gay characters being shoved into my comic books I could scream.\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nSince I&#8217;m ranting anyway, when did it become a requirement that every superhero team have a gay character? When did it become a requirement that every book have a gay character?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhy is it in my face??????\n<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t care what you do in the privacy of your own home. I don&#8217;t care if you like men or women or sheep or even horses. I DON&#8217;T CARE. Live whatever alternative lifestyle you like but don&#8217;t force it upon me. Seriously, I feel that the whole gay culture has been thrust upon me in the last five years. And, thanks to all of this, not only do I get to have the birds and bees talk I get to incorporate the sometimes bees like bees instead of birds talk. Why the F- do I want to have that talk? Guess what, I don&#8217;t.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nThis &#8230;impressive&#8230; rant was brought about by him reading a comic with a whole two gay characters in it. It wasn&#8217;t gay sex or anything like that which set this guy off mind, just the mere fact that &#8220;<cite>two of the characters are dating each other<\/cite>&#8220;! Really, you must be very gay-adverse to be bothered by that. I mean, I can understand getting bothered by <a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2007\/10\/richard_curtis_more_shocking_details\">what professional homophobe Richard Curtis alleged gets up to in his spare time<\/a>, but to wig out over the simple fact of a gay relationship? What are you, twelve?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy called Lee running a third rate comics blog exposed his homophobia to the world last week: Here we go&#8230; I am soooooo friggin&#8217; sick of gay characters being shoved into my comic books I could scream. [&#8230;] Since I&#8217;m ranting anyway, when did it become a requirement that every superhero team have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,294],"tags":[295,2475],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comix","category-lgbt","tag-fandickery","tag-glbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}