Social networks in Iran have been flooded with compromising footage featuring several known ultra-conservative officials engaging in homosexual activities. While homosexuality is punishable by death in Iran, the Iranian regime has attempted to deny the videos and cover up the scandals. We spoke to a former religious authority who says authorities are trying to “save face” by refuting the wave of videos.
First thing I thought was that’s a huge double-edged sword.
I was glad to see this very close to the top of the article.
“We should be careful not to label a homosexual relationship as a vice or any other label that the Islamic Republic attaches to homosexuals. We should not repeat their behaviour and condemn what happened. The problem here is not Seghati’s sexual relationship with another man, but the lies, hypocrisy and deception,” this tweet reads.
Absolutely right. I don’t care what you do in private but the moment you start depriving others of life and liberty for those same actions, well…I won’t weep when the axe falls on that person
Except really I think these kind of reveals will slowly lose their relevance since we are getting tools that make it far easier to do “Deepfakes”. So it will just become the goto answer. In some ways its liberating, in other ways horrific since it will mean accountability is far harder. Hell we already have the trial run with this whole discussion of “Fake news”.
They just want to be furries and don’t know it yet
I am convinced that any person who is homophobic is gay deep inside
No. Can people stop blaming gay people for the people who want to kill gay people, please?
The idea is more that most people are somewhere on a spectrum - most lean straight, but might find a person of the same gender somewhat attractive every now and then. Some are straight as an arrow, and never feel any attraction for anyone of the same gender whatsoever. Some are queer as hell and don’t ever feel any attraction for anyone of the opposite gender. And then there’s the asexuals, of course. But a bunch of people find themselves somewhere on the spectrum, even if they are for all intents and purposes straight.
In a culture where being gay is fine, a predominantly straight person might see someone of their own gender and think “huh, that’s an attractive person” and get on with their life without really thinking too much about it.
If this person is deeply religious and of the belief that homosexuality is a sin, or just brainwashed by toxic masculinity, things get more complicated. Moving on is not all that easy when they’re confronted with an identity crisis (literally) from hell, and the fact that a bunch of people find taboos extremely intriguing doesn’t help either. So they become obsessed.
Which is where homophobia comes in. Because honestly, why the hell should anyone give a fuck what other consenting adults are doing in the bedroom? I think the answer is that they don’t - homophobia isn’t a response to the actions of others, it’s a desperate response to the intrusive thoughts and insecurities going on inside their own brains. In their minds they are straight, so how do they explain to themselves that they keep having obsessive, intrusive homosexual thoughts? The only way out without abandoning their convictions (be it of religion or of their own conception of masculinity) is to direct it towards hatred.
Saying they’re “gay deep inside” is inaccurate, because they’re not actually “gay deep inside”. It’s not like there’s a flamboyant gay person waving a rainbow flag deep inside of them. They’re just normal people who have been mentally repressed to the point of absolute panic at the face of even the slightest intrusive thought. What is meant is that they have sexual urges - weak or strong - that they are extremely uncomfortable with, and that homophobia results from the cognitive dissonance that follows.
It’s just easier to say they’re gay deep inside, and a bonus is that it probably pisses them off as well. I can see how it’s also offensive to the gay community though, so I generally try to use more nuanced language myself.
The world will be a better place when leaders are subject to the same rules and treated the same as citizens.
So, when there’s no more rulers at all then?
Correct.
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I’m not buying it. For one thing, there’s a ton of porn falsely labeled Iranian or Saudi or Afghan, because they’re advertising it as taboo or scandals. It almost never is.
This is a dumb article talking about a politician in a sex scandal and trying to make it sound like an epidemic against an entire government.
You should read the whole article if you’re going to post something that relies on knowing what it says,
Why do you assume I didn’t read it? I did. There’s no verification it’s the same person. Man with black hair and a beard, describes most of Iran.
Because you clearly didn’t read it. And still haven’t read it. What is the point of posting like this?
Heads are going to literally roll.
Big surprise here, suck a shame they trap themselves in the closet even more
It’s a classic cycle. Because some have gay leanings they see everything homosexual as a sinful temptation and assume it’s the same for everyone else. The people must be protected against that perceived temptation so it must be forbidden. Meanwhile they fight against their own nature and succumb sometimes, which makes them repeat the cycle.
Sucks to be a bigot ig, glad I wasn’t enslaved to any religious ideologies
