Every so often I like to add a bit of class to this blog. Hence the occasional rhetorical flourish and pithy axioms in Latin or French. But today I'm degenerating to the level of a Limerick bar-room....but all in a good cause.
Those of you living in the Emerald Isle will by now know that Leo Varadkar (Pakistani father....vibrant Ireland, you know) our Minister for Health, has 'come out' as gay. Cue a tsunami of phone-ins, texts, emails, tweets, all of which seemed to revolve around two words: 'Courageous' and 'admiration'.
Now why is it that every homo who comes out is considered 'courageous' when the disclosure is met with a chorus of acclamation? Were it fifty years ago or more I'd agree. But today it's a much-admired lifestyle choice. It would take more courage to keep it under cover actually.
Then what exactly is there to admire? It's not as if he'd discovered the cure for cancer or some such. Here I come to the rudey Limerick bar bit. What's to admire about a man who takes it up the ass from other men, or administers oral sex to other men? Even leaving all other considerations aside it's no more admirable than say young Darren giving his girlfriend one in the back seat of his Skoda.
But we all know what's going on here. don't we, children? These people here, the Apostles of Degradation, will explain it all.

Now why is it that every homo who comes out is considered 'courageous' when the disclosure is met with a chorus of acclamation? Were it fifty years ago or more I'd agree. But today it's a much-admired lifestyle choice. It would take more courage to keep it under cover actually.
Then what exactly is there to admire? It's not as if he'd discovered the cure for cancer or some such. Here I come to the rudey Limerick bar bit. What's to admire about a man who takes it up the ass from other men, or administers oral sex to other men? Even leaving all other considerations aside it's no more admirable than say young Darren giving his girlfriend one in the back seat of his Skoda.
But we all know what's going on here. don't we, children? These people here, the Apostles of Degradation, will explain it all.