I don’t think the person you’re responding to believes that the problem is politicians being gay, but that they can’t separate their feelings about their sexuality from their job as politicians. Just because this fact can be used by homophobes to demonize gay people doesn’t mean that Republicans in office don’t have a pattern of sexual self repression that colors their politics.
You’re talking about confirmation bias, not an actual rule about the composition of the Republican Party or Republican lawmakers as a whole. Every time a Republican is outed it sticks in your mind because of the hypocrisy, but you don’t notice or remember the ~95% of them that are straight and never get ‘caught’ because they aren’t attracted to men. Turning around and using the closeted minority to insinuate that, actually, any given Republican is gay and closeted is just homophobia.
I don’t think the person you’re responding to believes that the problem is politicians being gay, but that they can’t separate their feelings about their sexuality from their job as politicians. Just because this fact can be used by homophobes to demonize gay people doesn’t mean that Republicans in office don’t have a pattern of sexual self repression that colors their politics.
You’re talking about confirmation bias, not an actual rule about the composition of the Republican Party or Republican lawmakers as a whole. Every time a Republican is outed it sticks in your mind because of the hypocrisy, but you don’t notice or remember the ~95% of them that are straight and never get ‘caught’ because they aren’t attracted to men. Turning around and using the closeted minority to insinuate that, actually, any given Republican is gay and closeted is just homophobia.
the sheer patience in your replies 💚