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Jack Donovan’s Brain Is Stoopid!

Gay writer Jack Donovan has penned a bizarre rant for the Spearhead in which he tars and feathers every male homosexual who isn’t hung up on being the gay version of Clint Eastwood, and along the way Donovan also has a go at telling straight guys how we should or shouldn’t live.

I will leave alone the gay stuff as it’s not really my business, but all this bullshit about real men and such? I find all this bad enough coming from my own, but from a gay guy? I don’t need Macho Queer Eye  any more than  i need the prissy version of it!

The most pertinent part of Donovan’s article is this one…

“For the record, my application of the term “faggot” is inclusively pansexual, and that usage seems to be increasingly common among men. Homosexuality and effeminacy correlate on average but effeminacy is not the exclusive domain of homosexual males. Not by a longshot. I don’t care who a man says he’s having sex with. If he’s wearing something f—ing bedazzled and prancing around like a tart, he’s a fag to me. Fruitcakes are fruitcakes. Likewise men who act like men should be regarded as men and treated like men.”

Why change the meaning of the word “fag”? I know why straight guys do it, it’s a way of saying “Do things my way or you’re not “one of us” no matter how much snatch you’re getting,” but when a homosexual like Donovan does it I get the feeling that perhaps it’s just his self-hatred coming to the fore. It’s a bizarre double-think way of saying, “I’m queer but not queer, because I’m butch, and as long as I’m butch I’m not a fag.”

In this interpretation of Donovan’s screed, the line “Likewise men who act like men should be regarded as men and treated like men.” is key – as long as Donovan acts like a man by drinking and smoking himself into an early grave and by yelling “faaaag” every time he sees a man who refuses to be a slave to society’s rules, he can still feel like a man, regardless of his nocturnal activities. The irony here is Donovan’s use of the word “act”! That’s exactly what you’re doing Jack, you’re acting like a man, the same way Robert DeNiro acts like a gangster! You’re playing an artificially defined role! You’re Neo before he met Morpheus! You’re an Alice in MachoLand, wandering around no longer knowing  what’s real and what’s pretend!

Most of what Donovan sees as manliness is a collection of social constructs meant to keep men doing what society wants them to – father kids, sacrifice for women, fight every stupid war that comes along, or at least destroy your body with overwork so that you and your family can buy, buy and then buy some more. The definition of  a real man is an easy one, so listen up Jack – a real man is an adult male homo sapiens. It really is that simple, and anyone who tells you otherwise, be they conservative or liberal, man or woman, is just trying to control you.

All this macho stuff has to be taken with a grain of salt. It has its uses but only because the world is so fucking  dangerous for men, so any man with sense learns how to fight, and tries to get big and strong, but you have to keep your sense of humor about you or you’ll go nuts and end up either in jail or in the local morgue .

Years  ago, I spent a few months working-out in a gay gym, and one day  I was standing there, grunting and straining during some dumbbell curls, very grim and serious, when suddenly in the background the Village People start singing  out “Macho, macho man! I want to be a macho man!” and I had to stop mid-rep to smile at the delicious irony of it all! Mr. Donovan, alas would have kept grunting, completely unaware of the joke being played on him by the universe.

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