Now that the public has become bored with Global Warming lie, it seems that it is time for the left to switch back to one of their other favourite causes to destroy Western Civilisation; gay marriage. So here we have ALP gears up for heated gay marriage debate, which is a bit of a touchy subject for the ALP as the party ostensibly exists to serve the interests of the working class, who are generally not too keen on gay marriage. But whatever Rudd and the ALP do today to momentarily ward off this wedge issue, it seems likely that eventually gay marriage will become a reality here. So while the gay lobby and their supporters have much to celebrate with this perceived victory, they should perhaps consider what political capital they are trading away for this right. Since the dawn of Political Correctness, the gay lobby has sought to suppress negative stereotypes (ie. unfunded sociology) of their demeanor and lifestyles, where they assert that gay males are just like average blokes, and not the promiscuous effeminates they are often said to be, and similarly that lesbians are not the masculine, aggressive bulldogs people expect. While they have never been able to extinguish these stereotyped perceptions, they have at least been partially successful in removing them from polite conversation to the point where they can assert a serious political front under the aegis of sexual identity. The rope they are unwittingly tying around their necks with gay marriage threatens to undo all this, as stereotypes being an ad hoc set of received anecdotes can be plausibly dismissed for lack of statistical data. Marriage, and the subsequent breakdown of marriage ending in divorce will produce a voluminous data set about the private lives of homosexuals, particularly with regards to their sexual profligacy and disposition to spousal violence. While the promiscuity of male gays has been verified by data derived from HIV and other STD studies, the issue of lesbian domestic violence is as yet generally not well known about enough to even generate a stereotype, being that it so far below the radar of popular culture. The most the public really know of this to date is the stereotype of lesbians being aggressive and uncouth. This is not to say that lesbian domestic violence is completely undocumented, this study does tentatively shed some light on the matter: The Second Closet: Domestic Violence in Lesbian and Gay Relationships: A Western Australian Perspective.
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Some studies also suggest that the rate of violence is higher in same sex relationships. A 1985 study of 1109 lesbians by Gwat-Yong Lie and Sabrina Gentlewarrier reported that slightly more than half of the respondents indicated that they had been abused by a female partner.[24] Coleman, in a 1990 study of 90 lesbians reported that 46.6% had experienced repeated acts of violence. Finally, Ristock's study of 113 lesbians reported that 41% said they had been abused in one or more relationships.[25] And according to a recent news article, it's not just lower-class uneducated lesbian mechanics and construction workers belting up their female partners, but this behaviour can be found even amongst well educated lesbian activist proponents of gay marriage. Til Death - Why did a gay-rights activist stab her wife with a screwdriver 222 times?
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Jessica Kalish was a gregarious software executive who used to host AlterNet, a gay and lesbian radio talk show in Miami. Her wife, Carol, was a writer covering the presidential election for the Huffington Post. To outsiders, it seemed they were the embodiment of contemporary domestic bliss: two smart, professional women living in an immaculate house replete with screened-in pool, a cabana bathroom, and plenty of room for their two adopted racing greyhounds. Soon, though, all of South Florida learned the unsettling truth.
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...police believe Jessica was still in the car when the attack began. When Jessica got out, Carol didn't stop swinging the screwdriver. Jessica's forearms were scratched, her hands punctured. Carol chipped Jessica's front teeth. She struck Jessica's chest. Then again. Then Jessica's face. Her shoulders. Jessica fell to the ground. Streaks of blood beneath where the car had been parked suggest that Jessica — who was much taller and stronger than Carol — was stretching out her hands, desperately trying to get under the car. Then Jessica crouched into a prone position near the rear driver's-side tire. One may ask, so what? And dismiss it as an unfortunate domestic situation that can just as easily afflict heterosexual couples. The political problem is that if the former statistics are strongly reflected in divorce cases there will no longer be a basis for plausible deniability of negative stereotypes concerning gays and lesbians, and in fact it may well lead to a reversion (politically speaking) to the era when homosexuality was regarded as evidence for psychiatric impediment. So once the actual nature of the private lives of homosexuals becomes a matter of public record, they really only have two courses open to them; they can 1. assert that lesbian domestic violence is due to homophobia, or 2. demand that all marriage and divorce statistics be suppressed as a basis of hate speech. I suspect the former strategy will only serve them a few years at best, and it is the second option that will become the future cause of gay activism. |
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o rly?
Not so: it is a common trope that the average lesbian relationship lasts two years, and then there is phenomenon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Haul_Lesbian
srsly
Of course there are plenty of notions floating about concerning lesbians, but most of them, like the U-Haul one, are not very well known by the general public. Then again the public has little awareness of the SCUMM Manifesto either.
There is also the fascinating 'lesbian bed death', which is interesting as a stereotype that actually began from a study rather than any form of collective wisdom on the matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesbian_bed_death
Another lesbian stereotype that is borne out by statistics is rampant alcoholism, but as is the case with other dysfunctional minorities, the phenomenon is duly noted, then 'nothing to see here, move along'.
I forgot to add, that the right of homosexuals to adopt children was won almost without a fight, as the groundwork had already been laid down by the broader anti discrimination coalition, making it almost impossible to legislate against it. Though the job would certainly be easier if there existed a database of gay/lesbian divorce statistics that cited domestic violence.
Here is another amusing example of lesbians not really understanding what they actually want when they demand that the Family Court oversee their relationships:
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/lesbian-granted-access-to-child/story-e6freuy9-1225752014756
A compromise?
Perhaps the boys should be raised by bull dykes, and the girls raised by flaming homosexuals.
This would ensure our society would once again be producing strong assertive men (who can also take apart & put back together a motorbike) and women who know their place (and have fabulous style).