It occurred to me that the real reason that Rove's comments about liberals and their reaction to 9/11 was offensive was that the subtext was that the "manly" response would be to go kick some ass, and that being compassionate is "gay."
When Rove says "Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," he's using the same brand of conservative code for "gay" that Cheney used almost a year ago when he criticized John Kerry's call for a more "sensitive" war.
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Even the Jews are hating on the Gay community. Check this link out: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062301103_pf.html
"Even the..."
What the heck is that comment? And why do the semi-literate morons always leave their comments anonymously? Do they know how stupid they sound and, apparently, are? For that matter, why do they bother commenting at all? Or don't they realize that commenting on a controversy in the Holy Land and saying what "the Jews" are doing is anti-Semitic?
Yeah...well, as you can see, I didn't respond. That one speaks for itself. It goes so wrong in so many direction.
directions, even
It certainly does seem true that popular culture associates gay-ness with feminization and by implication weakness. Frankly, both of those postulates are unsupported. Gay doesn't equal feminine, and feminine doesn't equal weak.
However, many people still stereotype gays as Richard Simmons and Liberace-esque puffballs.
It is worth pointing out that Britian has had gays in their military for quite some time, and it doesn't seem to be reducing their military capabilities.
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