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Owen Jones. Again. This is re Kevin Spacey so some content warning.

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Elendon · 30/10/2017 19:48

This quote from the article he wrote makes me feel deeply uncomfortable. He is a Guardian Columnist. He is a champion for gay men and gay men only. His empathy doesn't extend to Lesbians in the Lgbtq rights.

It is a deeply personal moment, and only those who use their platforms to further the cause of homophobia (like secretly gay politicians who vote against LGBTQ rights) should be outed against their will.

So he calls for people to be outed against their will, if they are politicians? Has he lost the plot?

This is the article in full, if you can stomach it.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/30/kevin-spacey-vicious-lie-gay-men-accusation-attempted-sexual-assault

What Kevin Spacey did was child abuse and came out as gay at the same time. Oh the horror. Being gay does not exclude you from the panoply of those who will and are inclined to abuse children.

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QuentinSummers · 30/10/2017 21:12

It's NAGMALTing over a response to an allegation of child abuse that basically says "I don't remember being a child abuser but yeah, actually I am gay".
Yes I agree with this. I understood it as Spacey saying that he may have done tgis while drunk and may have done similar things, and by the way he's also gay. Trying to get all the skeletons out so he came be accused of covering up/subject to exposes in the future.
It does sound like he's dodgy as which is very disappointing but I don't think him officially coming out was avoidable really.
And yes some gay men are child abusers. Just like some straight men are child abusers. Duh.

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Elendon · 30/10/2017 21:06

But it's no more than women who say 'rape, rape' or young women through themselves to the older, more powerful political man.

Basically, it is victim blaming. If coming out is so personal and such a big deal, you really can imagine that in order to stop yourself from doing such a deep and personal action that could have devastating consequences in your personal life, you may well sit in government and pass laws that go against the very grain of your being.

It's a highly unsympathetic outlook.

And understandable if you are beyond empathy and just say it anyway.

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Elendon · 30/10/2017 21:01

Yes I can. He dismisses the 'cotton ceiling' and yet is appalled at being asked to give cunnilingus.

In brief, Lesbians are really TERFS and the 'cotton ceiling' is a nonsense. To whit, Lesbians replied can you suck my clitoris if I'm trans? To whit, he was appalled at the very suggestion. To whit, he's not a very bright man.

He can never cover his tracks.

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TheFallenMadonna · 30/10/2017 20:40

It's NAGMALTing over a response to an allegation of child abuse that basically says "I don't remember being a child abuser but yeah, actually I am gay".

DJBaggySmalls · 30/10/2017 20:26

Spacey seemed to be deflecting attention away from the accusation made against him. It was a bad time to announce he was coming out. He should have just dealt with the accusation.

'many people conflate gay men and child abuse' is NAGMALTing all over an allegation of child abuse. Owen can't give any examples from the UK, as sexual orientation is a protected characteristic and it would be treated as hate speech.
Owen Jones calls gender critical women 'terfs', even Lesbians; but if I remember rightly, he reserves the right to only have sex with men.

EvilRinguBitch · 30/10/2017 20:22

I'm not a huge fan of Owen Jones, but I think that if closeted gay or lesbian politicians are engaged in homophobic policymaking which is actively harmful to out lesbians and gay men then outing them is defensible.

KarlosKKrinkelbeim · 30/10/2017 20:22

This is rare for me but I actually don’t disagree with anything he has said here.
Wtf is this about spacey coming out anyway - I thought it had been known for years he was gay?

HouseholdWords · 30/10/2017 20:18

Apols for multiple postsings I shouldn't really be here

HouseholdWords · 30/10/2017 20:17

OTOH, I think the political practice of "outing" is pretty nasty. But I can understand out gay/lesbian activists resenting those in the closet who are hypocrites and use their power to make life more difficult for out gays/lesbians.

salmonofwisdom · 30/10/2017 20:17

Can you back up your reasoning for not liking him? What makes you dislike him so much? It seems that we need more voices speaking up in the LGBTQ+ community. (I'm just in the business of not trying to spread hate here)

HouseholdWords · 30/10/2017 20:14

But he's right about the conflation of male homosexuality & child abuse - it is a vicious lie (except for those deranged men in the 70s who advocated boy love, or something nasty like that).

HouseholdWords · 30/10/2017 20:12

Well, Owen Jones doesn't much care for women generally, it seems to me - or women's rights, at any rate - few political gay men do, in my experience (I lived in Sydney for a bit in the late 80s when the organisers tried to exclude lesbians from the annual Gay Mardigras party - because who wants women around?) And lesbians - well, what use are they? They don't even make good faghags

TheFallenMadonna · 30/10/2017 19:55

He didn't say gay politicians should be outed. He said that hypocritical politicians who vote against gay rights should be outed.

And he is making the point that many people conflate male homosexuals and child abusers. And Kevin Spacey's statement can be seen as playing right to that stereotype. I find it distasteful too.

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