Yuck it up
I get a little pissed off at things sometimes. Like at that clip of George Clooney on the can congratulating Julia Roberts–another actor who’s up her own ass–at some gala in her honor, and then some guy is playing footsy with him, mocking the whole Senator Larry Craig debacle.
I’ll admit Craig deserves to be called out for his actions, especially since he has a homophobic voting record in Congress. He lacks integrity, and is a hypocrite. But he’s also gay and closeted. He didn’t choose to be gay, and I’m sure would prefer not to be closeted. But years of institutionalized homophobia–decades of having it hammered into his head that being gay is wrong, unnatural, and immoral–have made him into the mess that he is.
No one would choose to endure that kind of crap. No one deserves to have to go through it.
We’re already taught to feel bad about our sexual desires. Imagine being taught that who you want to have sex with is wrong on top of that. How far do we go in denigrating someone for their hypocrisy before showing compassion for their pain?
