Most gay men have realised that the Oppressed Victimhood party is totally over

17 April 2010

Some of my best friends are gay — but now I can go one better than that: one of them is HIV positive.

Not all the gay men I know are quite with the programme, yet. My old mucker Stephen Fry has yet to send me any emails saying: ‘Stap me vittals, Jimbo, you are so right about everything — and don’t I half feel a silly billy for having doubted your politics all these years.’ And obviously, there’s no hope whatsoever for the impossible Johann Hari who, even as the wall is pushed on top of him, will be squealing with his last breath that it’s all the fault of Western imperialism and white heterosexist Islamophobia. Generally, though, I think even the most obtuse homosexual male has realised that the Oppressed Victimhood party is, like, so totally over.

But how can this be when — anecdotally, at least, there are no official figures — gay bashing is on the up? This is what Nicholas De Jongh disingenuously asked in the Evening Standard the other week, ignoring the quite enormously vast elephant sitting in the middle of his dressing room. Hmmm, now let’s see. Is this surge in homophobia the result of a glut of English literature graduates reacting badly to Maurice? Or maybe, part of the great Elton John backlash? An increase in testosterone in the drinking water supply? The shrinking of the Royal Navy? Nicholas Boles?

No wait. Just a theory, this. I don’t want to be the second Speccie writer this year to be hauled up before the PCC kangaroo court but I wonder — might it be that there are certain ‘communities’ in Britain that believe the only good ‘batty boy’ is a dead ‘batty boy’? And certain other ‘communities’ where at their, ahem, places of worship, preachers project images of homosexual men onto screens in an amusing game they call ‘Spot the Fag’, while others, more forthright, urge their flocks simply to execute them. Could it be that an unfortunate side effect of New Labour’s otherwise wondrously enlightened policies on immigration and multiculturalism is that one of its hitherto most loyal constituencies has had to be thrown to the wolves? Yes, even that nice Michael Cashman who used to be on EastEnders.

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Letemdangle

April 25th, 2010 5:11pm Report this comment

I'm writing from Canada. I was discussing the plight of the indigenous people here with a coworker. He felt guilty about Indians here who live in run down reserves and don't take care of themselves. There is a lot of this thinking going on here. Now many Natives are using this guilt to manipulate government and politics. We also have a lot of pseudo street people who pretend to be victims of circumstance to prey off the guilt of hard working citizens. Victomhood a growing industry!

KLH

April 30th, 2010 10:51pm Report this comment

James, go marry Melanie Phillips. You can have a 50% claim on all the victimhood out there then, unless you're too busy hanging out with gay men, of course :)

KLH

April 30th, 2010 10:55pm Report this comment

James, go marry Melanie Phillips, then you can have a 50% claim on all the victimhood out there, unless you're too busy hanging out with gay men, of course :)

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