Blind Prophecy

Tucker Carlson is an ass. I won’t even link to it because watching that clip once was enough. Suffice it to say that Tucker and his buddies think that an appropriate (and hi-larious) response to being hit on by a guy in a bathroom is a good old fashioned gay bashing.

“…I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the — you know, and grabbed him, and — and — Hit him against the stall with his head, actually! — And then the cops came and arrested him. But let me say that I’m the least anti-gay right-winger you’ll ever meet.”

If that’s the least anti-gay right-winger I’ll ever meet, how much worse do they get?

Okay… everyone memorize this fact: most men engaging in bathroom-cruising type sex are straight-identified. They don't identify as gay, many of them are married (often with children), and–much like Senator Craig–are often staunchly anti-gay.

Major Darryl Tolleson, Atlanta Police Dept. on sex in public restrooms in Atlanta: “You would think that it would be a gay issue but more and more, overwhelmingly, we’re seeing that these are people with families.”

Therapists also hear plenty about this world in the torment of their patients — both married and gay men and those who eschew the word “gay” and describe themselves as “men who have sex with other men.”Whatever they call themselves, they are often driven by a craving, much like that which drives a drug addict, said Fred Berlin of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma at Johns Hopkins University.

“We use words like ‘pervert’ and we just demean and make very hard judgments,” Berlin said. “What I found is that many of these people are hardworking and struggling hard to be in control. . . . Anybody can have a compulsion, whether it’s a sexual compulsion or some other compulsion. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a measure of their character. Their character is something different.”

I believe Larry Craig when he says he’s not gay. I wouldn’t believe him if he says he’s never had sex with a man.

Meanwhile, I hope the next time Tucker Carlson makes a woman uncomfortable through intentional or unintentional flirtation, she comes back with a friend, bashes his head into something large and solid, then has him arrested.

ETA: GLAAD has weighed in on Tucker’s comments.

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