1) I guarantee this is a chud who only watches gay porn and yet has convinced himself he's not gay for whatever dumb reason and so he lives a life of mental gymnastics and misery instead. And no I don't think all homophobes are secretly gay. I just suspect this guy based on the weird mental gymnastics he does

2) "to make sure I'm transparent, I'm straight" / "these labels don't need to exist" lol

https://reddit.com/r/Showerthoughts/comments/l09yb6/_/gjsnzxz/?context=1

I definitely should have provided more context for this post and explained their further behaviour more. In a comment before this he uses his logic here to argue against "special treatment" for LGBT+ people for example, by which he means LGBT charities, pride, gay spaces, etc. I should have included more of that as the lack of context for his remarks makes it look like Im attacking the guy for having a fairly nuanced take on sexuality - which wasn't my intention

    • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      A Christian cis straight white man can’t be an Obama clone because there’s nothing historic about him. Part of Obama’s election was about proving that a black man could be president.

      I think that if Pete wasn’t gay, he’d get criticized more by the Yas Kween crowd and he would have faded from the primary like Eric Swalwell.

      I don’t think that being gay is an advantage in general and I don’t think that it was even specifically an advantage to Buttigieg, but that it was very calculated and triangulated when and why he came out.

      So maybe by politically advantageous I meant not politically disastrous.