I'm angered and saddened by the Spacey situation. I'm angry that despite having lived relatively openly, if not publicly, as a gay man for so many years (I met him a couple of times while he was AD of the Old Vic in London. He was NOT in the closet) he chose to make his first public declaration as a result of being accused of sexual assault against a minor. He's not a stupid man, he must have known the fallacious connections some might make of that. Why he thought that it might help his defence is anyone's guess.
Man! :2razz: I almost want to ask you some questions about him and your whole experience at that Old Vic, rather than challenge you on some points. But I feel compelled to challenge you anyways on one or more points you made.
It makes me equally angry when he made the 'seeking treatment' statement too.
He could be alcoholic. Honestly (yes, honestly, not for pretend), some of the incidents described with him and alcohol, particularly some report that he hired or tasked an assistant with watching him when he's out drinking, sounded to me like he has a drinking problem. That he is alcoholic.
Big changes (not minor) in a person's behaviors and/or personality can be an indication they are alcoholic. I say indication, I did not say it is proof or certainty.
Is he trying to claim that he's sick? Is he now drawing parallels between LGBT and mental illness?
This is the point I wanted to challenge. You criticized Spacey for his wording (in relation to the teenage boy and Spacey's homosexuality) but you made a
strategic choice of words yourself. You dropped the Q from LGBTQ and just wrote LGBT. Why? Because you know "Q" (Queer) encompasses a broad range of things like cross dressers, non-binary people, and until they get their own letter "F" the furries too?
The man is innocent until proven guilty, but in my mind he IS guilty of promoting a false narrative about the connections between LGBT, paedophilia (or more correctly, hebephilia), and mental illness. That's not a crime but in my book it absolutely is the action of a scumbag.
Attraction to a teenager is not pedophilia. Whether the person is heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. I don't care how many times some hysterical American (or Brit or whoever) keeps reciting it is pedophilia. If some adult American critical of Spacey thinks a 14 year-old boy looks like a 7 year-old boy then something is psychologically and emotionally wrong with that American. Maybe they are a pedophile.
When you get to the young American girls of today it is even more problematic. Even medical science indicates these young girls are now
physically (not emotionally) maturing faster.
I once visited an old friend, and I was briefly speaking with her daughter. The daughter told me she was graduating. And I asked her in all seriousness and curiosity, "Oh, so are you going to college?"
She looked at me with a pause to see if I was serious? And she must have realized I was.
Then she replied, "I'm going into high school."
My eyes almost bugged out my head. She was already "built" like a 20 year-old woman. :shock:
She must have been as tall or taller than me too.
Anyways... a 14 year-old is not built the same as a 7 year-old.
There is no false narrative about a correlation between homosexual men and teenage boys. Just as there is no false narrative about a correlation between heterosexual men and teenage girls.
Lie and hate it all you want... but there is a greater correlation between homosexual men and teenage boys than there is between heterosexual men and teenage boys.
Just as there is sure to be a greater correlation between heterosexual men and teenage girls than there is between homosexual men and teenage girls.
There is a greater correlation with HIV between homosexual males and IV drug users than there is with lesbians and heterosexual males.
