March 17, 2008

From the Hate Mail Bag

“JOhn Connors” (that’s how he spells it) writes:

As a gay man I’m stunned at the childishness of your anti-Obama campaign. It’s quite clear that this is the influence of the gender identity politics and narrow world view of many in the Lesbian community. It’s sad and sickening.

No, JOhnny, what’s childish is your straw-man extrapolation characterizing my opposition to Barack Obama as having anything whatsoever to do with “gender identity politics” (a favorite phrase, incidentally, of right-wing blogs, news sources, and other rabidly anti-Clinton outlets).

What’s sad and sickening is your broadbrush smear of lesbians. If I were a man, would you smear the gay-male community for daring to shine so harsh a light on your precious Obama? No, you wouldn’t — you looked for the handiest weapon within reach, and brought sex (sex, JOhnny, not “gender”) into this; rather than debate my points, you took the lowest road and attempted to dismiss my opinion wholesale because I am a lesbian.

What’s especially sad and sickening is that slamming my femaleness is more important to you than the fact that I have been defending your dignity as a fellow gay American, from the moment Obama threw you under the bus, right along with the rest of us. (Sorry to break the news to you, JOhnny, but “us” includes lesbians, too.)

I thought the stereotype of the lesbian-hating male had gone the way of the dinosaur. Sadly, sexism is alive and well, at least in JOhnnyLand.

Posted by: Sapphocrat