Fag Hating Families Cause Much Distress
Diamond, G., Shilo, G., Jurgensen, E., D’Augelli, A., Samarova, V., & White, K. (2011). How Depressed and Suicidal Sexual Minority Adolescents Understand the Causes of Their Distress Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, 15 (2), 130-151 DOI: 10.1080/19359705.2010.532668
In the contentious debate surrounding why us fags are as mad as hell, too much positivist logic thrusts all that madness back upon individual sufferers when, as we might have always suspected, the bulk of the maddening comes from the multiple traumas inflicted by harsh and unreasonable families, friends, peers and others. So much time and energy that is currently being wasted trying to pin down the pathological basis of homosexuality would, as Diamond et al. (2011) infer here, be better spent sorting out fucked-up families and the like for whom the assault of abandonment is executed with the doubly weird twist of acting as though they, the perpetrators, are actually the ‘most’ aggrieved. You know, how when families ‘discover’ that their little Johnny or Mary is as bent as a reed in a gust and thereafter they need continual affirmation of the struggle into which they have been plunged. Me thinks that instead of getting distressed, planning suicide or doing drag under duress, young fags everywhere should revolt against their family as my cat does whenever she gets stressed. That is, she just vomits.
Some homage is due here, no doubt, for Laing, Esterson and Szasz, who among other brilliant minds told us all those years ago that madness really does ‘run’ in families…
“better spent sorting out fucked-up families”
How do you define “sorting out”? Should the state take away children from “homophobic” parents and give them to gay couples? Imprison the parents? Explain.
The answer to this, and to the previous post about anti-gay eugenics, is to breed gay babies. What do you think of that solution? Have any kids yourself?
It is not rocket science (although there is a huge body of science to back it up) that children who are loved and cared for, who are nurtured and protected, tend to grow up to be well-adjusted adults. Those children who are not, like, for example, children whose emerging homosexuality is responded to with unrelenting violence by their family and/or significant others, tend to experience lingering trauma symptoms.
You didn’t address my comment, so I’ll repeat. What constitutes “sorting out”?
The state is indeed empowered to step in and remove a child from harm. Would homophobia be one of those conditions? Explain.
And I wasn’t being rhetorical about the breeding gay babies meme. If gays seriously wish to deal with this issue they have to stop depending on straights to do the heavy lifting for them. Have your own kids and encourage them to be gay, or to consider it as a viable option. What do you think about that?