the whole manhunt thing, and beyond

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a few days ago, it was revealed that the chairman and co-founder of manhunt, the most popular gay hookup website the world has ever known, had recently donated $2,300--the maximum possible for an individual--to the mccain campaign.

my reaction? ironic amusement--i couldn't wait to see how the republicans were gonna respond to this lil' nugget if it ever pinged the fox news radar. beyond that i didn't give a rat's ass--i figure it's a free country, guy's politics are his own goddam business.

and boy, am i--as is increasingly the case these days--in the distinct minority on this one.

i've been all over the gay blogosphere tonight, and seems the howls of outrage (not to mention canceled memberships) that resulted from this revelation compelled manhunt's board of directors to quickly demand--and secure--the resignation of said chairman/co-founder.

and then the remaining board members fell all over themselves establishing their high-minded liberal credentials (because god knows we'd expect nothing less from those fine folks who enable us to find an endless supply of willing strangers to slam meth and bareback with). and now today, flush with victory, faggots are high-fiving each other all over the blogosphere--and wondering if they've exacted enough blood to satisfy their sense of moral outrage.

and i sit here and shake my head, and wonder how a movement that began as a demand for tolerance of diversity has so decisively turned into the very thing it was fighting against.

yeah, we liberal, enlightened gays are all about the diversity--but only so long as it's the kind of diversity of which "we" approve. and if you disagree with me in this assertion, i challenge you to go spend a little time in any of the top 10 liberal gay (fine, that's redundant) blogs and then come back here and tell me why i'm wrong.

and while i'm waiting for your response, i'll tell you why i'm right--and believe it or not, it has nothing to do with teh gays in particular; on the contrary, my thesis is based on what i've observed occur not only with us but with all the major "oppressed-minority" groups that have arisen to prominence in america within the span of my lifetime, including: (a) the blacks; (b) the feminists; (c) the illegals--and what the hell, let's throw in (d) the mothers against drunk driving, too.

because while you'd think that each would be magnanimous in the victories they'd achieved in such a stunningly short time, in each case the opposite has proved to be true--the more ground each group gains, the more wounded, aggrieved, intolerant and unreasonable each becomes.

and the fact that this is true because--fuck minority status--it's only human nature to grab a mile when someone gives you an inch doesn't help me much here, because i expect more from my people. and, time after time, i am sorely disappointed.

case in point: this manhunt-founder dude looks around, decides that national security is more at-risk right now than are gay rights--a totally reasonable assumption, btw--and, for whatever reason, decides he's gonna go with mccain because he thinks he'll be stronger on that issue than obama (not to mention that, like most people in this country who have succeeded in business, made serious money at it and have no interest in wealth redistribution, he's probably a dyed-in-the-wool republican anyway).

in other words, a gay man took it upon himself to decide that the gay agenda doesn't necessarily always rule--that's ok, right?

wrong--to the guillotine, infidel.

because the gay party line of today is: if you're not just like us, you're not only wrong, you're evil and must be destroyed.

but--and please god correct me if i'm wrong--isn't that exactly the mentality we were struggling against not so very long ago?