Jesus. That article is infuriating and highlights how little Americans understand Medicare for All. We are literally going to make a bad choice as a society because we can’t imagine a life where ALL healthcare is covered and a board of rich assholes isn’t deciding our financial fate based on their next quarterly…

Theory, Ester Wang, like the entire actual legitimate media, is secretly pro trump. Reasoning, trump is perfect snarky, fact free, fodder for clickbait blogs just as much as the pearl clutching and on fire hair running at all the major media outlets. All that matters is beating trump but anyone who has a chance to win…

Cue ball Dale Peck is just jealous of Buttigieg’s hair.

Hey Rich,

If the piece on MP required this much unpacking to understand, that unpacking should have been baked into it in the first place. What I read was an utterly unjustified attack with nothing to back up its arguments but vitriol. It wasn’t thought-provoking. It didn’t critique his policies or ideas from any kind of…

But that’s literally what people’s problem with the Peck article is? Peck decided that because Buttigieg is a corporate Dem who didn’t emerge from a culture of radical queer activism it’s fair game to belittle his homosexuality and his lifestyle. 

It’s so cool when the “radical gays” try to make people feel like shit for wanting things that 95% of everyone else wants. “That gay wants a husband, like some kind of idiot! Look at how stupid he is! What’ll he say next, that he wants kids?! What a joke!”

Homo here, and holy hell, am I beyond sick of Media Gays and their screeds about who is or is not Gaying the Right Way.

Rich, you are the kind of gay man who makes everyone else in this community feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. The lesbians, the late bloomers, the trans people, anyone who isn’t a white gay man who came out at 18 and immediately fucked off to a big expensive city. 

Thanks for articulating this in a way I couldn’t. Super cool to be felt like an outsider all of your life in the straight world, but even cooler to enter the gay community and then be derided because you’re not the “right type of gay”.

The idea that there is a such thing as “not gay enough” to represent th community is just as homophobic as the idea that someone is “too gay” to be president. So yeah, it’s homophobic.

Peck’s column popped up in my newsfeed on Saturday and I read it all the way through. Within its text, one thing became clear to me (me: a 57 year old gay man who went through the early 90s in NY and LA - and all that meant, too): Peck is stuck in a time and place and suffering from arrested development. I’d wager…

I am so tired of this “it took him 33 years to come out.” Are gays supposed to come out the moment they are born? Jesus Christ this is so fucking stupid.

All of this.

Calling someone an Uncle Tom is racist.

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

Well this gay man found parts of the article to be quite homophobic. Calling a gay man “Mary” in an attempt to degrade and belittle him is pretty textbook homophobia.

Honestly, and not to defend the guy, how would it be “about the kids” to stand up on a ladder and getting your mug shot just for PR...

Just so I understand the point here...With no perceivable positive result to be achieved, simply gawking at the kids as if they were in a viewing zoo would’ve been a good thing?

It’s a ladder to look at the kids. It doesn’t change the situation and is honestly...a little weird. We know what’s there already.