I see that Pete Buttigieg is now leading the pack of Democratic candidates in polls for the Iowa caucus.
I don’t think Mr. Buttigieg, should he win the nomination, will do very well at all against Donald Trump in the general election. It should go without saying that we would not even know his name if he were not gay (I’m sorry, but please don’t kid yourself that this isn’t so, any more than Barack Obama would have leapt into the White House had he been white), but I remarked to myself a while back that I think he might even be a more plausible candidate if he actually seemed more gay than he does. We’re used to that sort of gay man, and it’s kind of mainstream now.
As it happens, the same thing occurred to none other than “Bronze Age Pervert”, who I’ve mentioned here recently. In a recent podcast he had this to say:
But you see, [Buttigieg] is more disturbing to a normal American than let’s say a gay queeny guy would be. I think that gay effeminate queeny guy, by now most people would be – if they’re not OK with that, at least they’re tolerant, at least they’re understanding.
But a so-called masculine gay of this type – [Buttigieg] isn’t exactly “masculine.” It’s something else. It sets off serious psycho-alarms for most people not caught up in the way of delusion of the pseudo-polite society… I may talk about this another time, but among homosexuals, the so-called gay top – excuse me for talking such things, but this isn’t a family show, after all – but the so-called gay top is far more disturbing than the queeny effeminate gay.
We have already recognized this phenomenon in robotics; we call it the “Uncanny Valley”. I hope you will forgive me for applying this metaphor here — Pete Buttigieg is, after all, not a robot — but I think that when it comes to a great many ordinary American voters, a similar psychological mechanism will be in play, and it won’t help his chances.
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While not robotic, among young males who are facing the challenges of what is manly and what is proper masculine behavior, a ‘Mayor Pete’ image may very well increase confusion and doubt among these males. Confused and doubting males will also cause confusion among young females. This is what seems obvious to me.
Maybe this circumstance, if accurate, is part of the goal of LGBT identity?
Kind of like Mark Zuckerburg. He is a human (they keep telling us) but you look at him and there just seems to be something a little off. He looks like an android straight out of central casting. Very disconcerting.
Disturbing that he has gotten this far. Our politics today are anxious to indulge fetishes. Bad enough that Obama got in as an “acceptable Black”; local races here have people drooling over an acceptable Black, or Latino, or woman, or some kind of minority just so that box can be checked.
I suppose it ties in with the desire of the local churches et al to find some poor “migrant” in a new part of the world to import. Some Jehovahs showed up at my door with a tract beaming about the need to care for various new groups of migrants. Makes me think of the bar adage: “that guy is in a hurry to make all the mistakes he can.”
Not a way to run a country.