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Stephen Fry is a gay, liberally inclined, celebrity and is a darling of the Left, but he ran afoul of the Political Correctness Police when he gave his witty voice to an old nut on how straight women don’t go for sex as much as gay men do, as even the most notorious sluts just aren’t that promiscuous:
If women liked sex as much as men, there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay cruising areas. Women would go and hang around in churchyards thinking, “God, I’ve got to get my rocks off”, or they’d go to Hampstead Heath and meet strangers to shag behind a bush. ‘It doesn’t happen. Why? Because the only women you can have sex with like that wish to be paid for it... I feel sorry for straight men. The only reason women will have sex with them is that sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship with a man, which is what they want. Of course, a lot of women will deny this and say, “Oh no, but I love sex, I love it!” But do they go around having it the way that gay men do?If my ONTD news is right, he has even given up his Twitter account because of the backlash. Sure, his statement may not be the most diplomatic and nuanced, but he is a comic venting his wit, for crying out loud, and more than that, he is right! I fear the Right more, but the Left is not without its hazards.
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Date: 2010-11-02 01:26 pm (UTC)From:I think it's generally felt that men cannot but be promiscuous, or at least want to be, and that much of morality is meant to counterveil this doggy tendency. I don't know if it's insulting to men, or just picking at our weakness, and I think, in your sense, that he's not just insulting straight men, but all men, taking up the point you make about how he assumes that gay men don't want meaningful relationships.