I will explain in my next post why I feel the need to come to the defence of Lindy West. It involves debates around gay marriage, and the comments and attitudes of my favourite ‘bete noir’ and gayist activist, Dan Savage, of Dan Savage Is Annoying fame. But for now, I will simply repost Lindy’s [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Dan Savage Is Annoying’
In Defence Of… Lindy West
Posted: February 13, 2011 in Identity, UncategorizedTags: Dan Savage Is Annoying, fattism, gay marriage, identity, Lindy West
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I would come out tonight…
Posted: December 11, 2010 in Identity, Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: Barry Manilow, Dan Savage Is Annoying, gay, Patrick Strudwick
Ah, Barry Manilow, he of the famous nose and the camp jumpsuits and the big songs that are probably being played at someone’s wedding, somewhere, as I type. People may claim to hate him but nobody does. He’s a legend. But Patrick Strudwick, the Gay of the year in some circles, well Gay journalist of the [...]
My obsession with the horror that is Dan Savage has taken me to reading some very boring and very stupid articles, and the comments that go with them, ‘under the line’. To sum up Dan’s philosophy on sexuality: ‘Gay is good. Gay is natural. Straight is tolerable. Christians are evil. Homophobia comes from Christian Straight [...]
Amidst my crazy ranting about why Dan Savage is a COCK, I managed to find time to calm down and look beyond my own tiny section of the earth, at the arguments going on out in the world, about the It Gets Better Project. I am relieved to say there has been a lot of [...]
It Gets Better: What does? For Whom?
Posted: October 6, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Dan Savage Is Annoying, identity, Sexuality
I promised to put my Dan Savage Is Annoying campaign into context. Thankfully, other people out there think Dan Savage Is Annoying too, and probably have much more reason to than I do. So if I haven’t completely lost you already, I highly recommend you read the following post. It criticises the It Gets Better youtube [...]
Respect The Cock, But Not Too Much
Posted: October 6, 2010 in Masculinities, UncategorizedTags: Dan Savage Is Annoying, macho fags, Magnolia, Tom Cruise
HELP!! I am in danger of turning the name of this blog into Dan Savage Is Annoying ! I am barely joking. There is something about his particular unique melange of machismo, uber-masculinism, GAY fundamentalism, American middle class liberal imperialist superiority, a hint, a subliminal hint of hatred of men (men who are not Dan [...]
Savage Dan #2 Respect The Cock
Posted: October 5, 2010 in MasculinitiesTags: Dan Savage Is Annoying, Garrison Keillor, machismo, macho fags
Following my announcement to the world that Dan Savage Is Annoying : http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/savage-heart/ I have one more thing to add. Dan Savage Is Really Annoying After his outburst at Garrison Keillor for his comments on The Gays, Garrison was bullied into an apology and Savage responded to it with these immortal lines: ‘Excuse me… what? I’m pretty [...]
Dear Reader, (Is there really more than one of you?) I have a confession to make. I am an immature, catty, bitchy, (any other animal imagery you care to add feel free) Cow. And when I am angry and upset and tired of bullshit, I am even more immature and bitchy. This is the context [...]
