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posted by Hal Duncan | 4:41 pm
Notes from New Sodom
... rantings, ravings and ramblings of strange fiction writer, THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!!
So the hatemail dubbed me THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (sic) So I will wear that with pride, cuntfuckers. It's like The Outlaw Josie Wales only better, right? I mean, did he have a fully capitalised THE, an extra-long dramatic pause, and two exclamation marks? No, he did not. Chickenshit.
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2 Comments:
No-one does eloquent anger quite like you, Hal.
As a slightly interested overseas observer, I've been waiting for someone in the UK to point out that the bigot, was, actually, bigoted.
In SA, as you might imagine, there are many coded statements about race (and many uncoded ones, as well). As soon as I read she'd said "Flocking" I understood perfectly what she meant (and what sort of person she was), because it's the same lumping, dehumanising, not us kind of phrase that gets used here a lot.
The only thing that pleasantly surprised me was Brown (believe it or not)! It was great to realize that he actually felt that way, and didn't privately agree with her. It was a glimpse of actual conviction.
The law-and-order society does form pressures that produce certain entrenched attitudes. One could say that it selects for certain harmful memes.
By the way, with these BSC columns, do you prefer getting comments here, or on the article itself? I'm not sure which is more helpful (although I'm fairly sure none of my comments could be described as helpful, the fact that there are comments promotes rank in search engines).
And thanks for pointing out the awful Phillipa Stroud as well. Only the Guardian seems to have bothered with her.
She has, of course, stated in response that 'I don't believe homosexuality is an illness', which allowed Cameron to welcome her back to the fold (or extend his leathery wing to pull her back into the snakepit, to mix my metaphors).
She's quite right, she doesn't believe homosexuality is an illness. She
believes it's demon possession.
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