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urbpanA friend just sent me a link to a music video, in which a sparkly-eyed, chubby young man with an apprentice mustache and a pink button-down shirt sings a song called "God Hates Fags." He looks into the camera lens with a Borat-like appearance of sincerity, telling us that "to enter heaven there's no back door," "Jesus my savior is the only man for me!" and "bein' gay is nothin' but a choice!" He also speaks quite personally in the song of "fighting his urges," and so on.
It's pretty hard to take seriously, even though the video shows the address of "Love God's Way," an apparently serious anti-gay Christian site. There you can find a list (woefully incomplete) of "bands to watch out for" lest your child be swayed by their messages of gay tolerance (I assume). This list includes bands with known homosexual members: the magnetic fields, judas priest, the village people (not the village people) but also a few surprises for me, such as metallica (I must not be listening closely enough) and motorhead (leather and motorcycles are too close, I guess). Jeopardizing the illusion of seriousness is the inclusion of parenthetical explanations for some of the bands. Next to Ted Nugent is the remark "(loincloth)". Next to Elton John is the clarification "(really gay)". I'm not sure what to make of the question marks bracketing the remark next to Morrissey "(?questionable?)" or how to interpret the listing of George Michael "(Texan)".
The internet is a funny place. In a medium with bonsai kitten, a world where the technology allows Creationists an audience, how can I interpret this stuff? I have to file it in a special place in my head, in a buffer zone where information can sit beside anti-information without detonating.
Why has wikipedia permanently removed Poe's Law?
"Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of Fundamentalist Christians that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
It's pretty hard to take seriously, even though the video shows the address of "Love God's Way," an apparently serious anti-gay Christian site. There you can find a list (woefully incomplete) of "bands to watch out for" lest your child be swayed by their messages of gay tolerance (I assume). This list includes bands with known homosexual members: the magnetic fields, judas priest, the village people (not the village people) but also a few surprises for me, such as metallica (I must not be listening closely enough) and motorhead (leather and motorcycles are too close, I guess). Jeopardizing the illusion of seriousness is the inclusion of parenthetical explanations for some of the bands. Next to Ted Nugent is the remark "(loincloth)". Next to Elton John is the clarification "(really gay)". I'm not sure what to make of the question marks bracketing the remark next to Morrissey "(?questionable?)" or how to interpret the listing of George Michael "(Texan)".
The internet is a funny place. In a medium with bonsai kitten, a world where the technology allows Creationists an audience, how can I interpret this stuff? I have to file it in a special place in my head, in a buffer zone where information can sit beside anti-information without detonating.
Why has wikipedia permanently removed Poe's Law?
"Without the use of a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to make a parody of Fundamentalist Christians that someone won't mistake for the real thing."
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I always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive
Date: 2007-01-29 04:22 pm (UTC)Word on the street is that Kirk Hammet (the cute, curly balck haired one) of Metallica is gay. I don't know if it's true.
I'm getting really into Judas Priest lately. They don't really have songs about gay tolerance exactly. They do have some filthy ones about sex though! Here's one of the songs from back when no one knew that Rob Halford was gay. Innocent times...
Killing Machine Lyrics
I never give no answers, I never tell no lies
I never walk a straight line so I never get surprised
I don't ask no favours so I won't get abused
I learned to win when I was young
So I'm never ever gonna lose
They pay me the money and I'll do the job
I got a contract on you
I got a contract, on you
I never ask no questions, I never speak my mind
I always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive
I take care of business, It takes care of me
I look after myself and do it well
'cause somebody's always looking for me
They pay me the money and I'll do the job
I got a contract on you
I got a contract on you
What manner of man am I?
A gun, lump sum and then I move on
What manner of man are you?
Stab a friend's back to jump a queue
I do what I do 'cos I can't do nothing better
You do what you do, just defendin' yourself
'cos you ain't got nothin' better to do
I got no place, no name, I'm just a killing machine
I kept the population down, if you know what I mean
I never stop in one place, I move about the cities
Got expensive tastes, but I hasten to add that
I'm the best that there is
They pay me the money and I'll do the job
I got a contract on you
I got a contract on you
I got a contract on you
I got a contract on you
Re: I always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive
Date: 2007-01-29 04:32 pm (UTC)Re: I always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive
Date: 2007-01-29 04:51 pm (UTC)It seems it is just a rumour though. According the the ever-trustworthy wikipedia he's been married (to girls) twice. Oh well, I still have Mr. Halford to be my gay metal icon!
Re: I always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive
Date: 2007-01-29 09:53 pm (UTC)It's typical, a guy tries out some eyeliner and all the sudden he's teh Gay.
Re: I always found that silence helps to keep me and my kind alive
Date: 2007-01-29 05:17 pm (UTC)