Social networks in Iran have been flooded with compromising footage featuring several known ultra-conservative officials engaging in homosexual activities. While homosexuality is punishable by death in Iran, the Iranian regime has attempted to deny the videos and cover up the scandals. We spoke to a former religious authority who says authorities are trying to “save face” by refuting the wave of videos.
The world will be a better place when leaders are subject to the same rules and treated the same as citizens.
So, when there’s no more rulers at all then?
Correct.
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How long until the Iran regime claims the leaks were made with AI?
This should’ve been their default claim, living behind the times. And time’s a guy too
Homosexual AIs
Projection. Every. Time
I am shocked. Shocked! Well not that shocked.
Imagine being an ultra-conservative Iranian authority who hasn’t been having homosexual sex. Now you have something to brag about and get even more conservative.
Ha ha, had a good chuckle
Who is surprised? no one.
The ultra-conservative authorities were probably surprised by it getting out. But nobody else.
Caught with their pants down, if you will.
Isn’t this literally pretty much the plot to the second book of the handmaids tale or am I losing it. Would make sense, hypocrisy is a big thing amongst the far right I guess
I am convinced that any person who is homophobic is gay deep inside
No. Can people stop blaming gay people for the people who want to kill gay people, please?
The idea is more that most people are somewhere on a spectrum - most lean straight, but might find a person of the same gender somewhat attractive every now and then. Some are straight as an arrow, and never feel any attraction for anyone of the same gender whatsoever. Some are queer as hell and don’t ever feel any attraction for anyone of the opposite gender. And then there’s the asexuals, of course. But a bunch of people find themselves somewhere on the spectrum, even if they are for all intents and purposes straight.
In a culture where being gay is fine, a predominantly straight person might see someone of their own gender and think “huh, that’s an attractive person” and get on with their life without really thinking too much about it.
If this person is deeply religious and of the belief that homosexuality is a sin, or just brainwashed by toxic masculinity, things get more complicated. Moving on is not all that easy when they’re confronted with an identity crisis (literally) from hell, and the fact that a bunch of people find taboos extremely intriguing doesn’t help either. So they become obsessed.
Which is where homophobia comes in. Because honestly, why the hell should anyone give a fuck what other consenting adults are doing in the bedroom? I think the answer is that they don’t - homophobia isn’t a response to the actions of others, it’s a desperate response to the intrusive thoughts and insecurities going on inside their own brains. In their minds they are straight, so how do they explain to themselves that they keep having obsessive, intrusive homosexual thoughts? The only way out without abandoning their convictions (be it of religion or of their own conception of masculinity) is to direct it towards hatred.
Saying they’re “gay deep inside” is inaccurate, because they’re not actually “gay deep inside”. It’s not like there’s a flamboyant gay person waving a rainbow flag deep inside of them. They’re just normal people who have been mentally repressed to the point of absolute panic at the face of even the slightest intrusive thought. What is meant is that they have sexual urges - weak or strong - that they are extremely uncomfortable with, and that homophobia results from the cognitive dissonance that follows.
It’s just easier to say they’re gay deep inside, and a bonus is that it probably pisses them off as well. I can see how it’s also offensive to the gay community though, so I generally try to use more nuanced language myself.
Stop muddying the issue. Nobody is blaming homosexuals in general, they are blaming a very specific subset of homophobic homosexuals.
“Muddying the issue” would be trying to get people to sympathize with homophobes instead of hating and rejecting them. Like this idea of them all being self hating.
It’s not sympathy. It’s pointing out their own internalized self hatred as an explanation beyond them being some mustache twirling villain. It’s more pathetic imo for a homophobic politician to struggle with their sexuality vs learned values so hard that instead of coming to the conclusion that gay = ok they try to exterminate gays instead.
If they were just awful people for no reason other than religion that’s just straight brain rot but if you are literally part of the group you’re trying to extinguish I feel like that has to be the most embarrassing thing for that individual. Like just get therapy at that point.
I’d be surprised if anybody arguing in good faith would genuinely believe the above criticism is somehow a jab at gay people as a whole when it’s very obvious it’s just about the homophobe in general. The moral here is you can be gay and still want to stomp the rights of others in your same situation. I know friends whose black/immigrant parents voted for Trump. There’s psychos everywhere my guy.
It doesn’t really make me sympathize with them any more. Maybe you could utilize the information to avoid raising more homophobes in the future.
you can not blame them all you want, it’s still true; i speak from experience when i say this: gays are the most-clueless of all the minorities.
They could just be intolerant bigots. There are any number of reasons someone might hate someone, and the logic of “they must just be gay” doesn’t really work for other types of bigotry and racism.
So I’m not secretly black deep down inside? Damn.
Deeeeep inside… Hrrngh
Reminds me of that meme where a cartoon character is in the fridge stuffing his mouth and the top caption reads “anti-gay preachers when no one is looking” And then the bottom caption reads “COCK”
I don’t really like this- for one, it’s based in the fact that homophobic people who also engage in queer behavior in secret tend to be outrageous in their hypocrisy. Thus, because it’s such juicy news people tend to assume it’s more common than it actually is. This is called the availability heuristic.
For another, it individually pathologizes the condition of being homophobic as being rooted in psychological reaction formation- thereby denying that homophobia is something encultured by the broader homophobic social system that we live in. The condition of being a gay homophobe isn’t a psychological one but a sociological one- it’s not (just) shame but a very real fear of the very real consequences which recruit them to uphold the very system that oppresses them.
You are using the terms sociological and psychological a bit incorrectly. Sociological phenomenon definitely feed into individual psychological phenomenon. Sometimes (actually commonly) an individual uses a psychological coping mechanism as a means to survive their sociological setting. Sociology affects Psychology of individuals, but that does not mean the individual psychological phenomenon do not exist on an individual level or that those things are solely Sociological.
All over some silly made-up rules that no god in its right mind would actually give a single fuck about.
They just want to be furries and don’t know it yet
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Big surprise here, suck a shame they trap themselves in the closet even more
It’s a classic cycle. Because some have gay leanings they see everything homosexual as a sinful temptation and assume it’s the same for everyone else. The people must be protected against that perceived temptation so it must be forbidden. Meanwhile they fight against their own nature and succumb sometimes, which makes them repeat the cycle.
Sucks to be a bigot ig, glad I wasn’t enslaved to any religious ideologies
Ironically these idiots are proud of being slaves to their ‘god’
A stroll around Dubai at night does, too.
Heads are going to literally roll.
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I’m not buying it. For one thing, there’s a ton of porn falsely labeled Iranian or Saudi or Afghan, because they’re advertising it as taboo or scandals. It almost never is.
This is a dumb article talking about a politician in a sex scandal and trying to make it sound like an epidemic against an entire government.
You should read the whole article if you’re going to post something that relies on knowing what it says,
Why do you assume I didn’t read it? I did. There’s no verification it’s the same person. Man with black hair and a beard, describes most of Iran.
Because you clearly didn’t read it. And still haven’t read it. What is the point of posting like this?
