• ElChinchilla@lemmy.world
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    It is super weird to me that the GOP has a raging hard on for them while simultaneously being bigoted and homophobic.

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      Weirdly I had no idea either of them were gay… but I guess I’m not a right wing bigot who cares about everyone’s sexual preferences.

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        Thiel’s sexuality has been very widely known for a while now because he financed the legal destruction of the tabloid that outed him. Altman is probably less known but if you read his wiki article you’ll find that he met his husband in Thiel’s hot tub. Literally didn’t know that sisterraper was gay before reading that

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        Likewise. Not exactly a topic that matters. The GOP though, specifically, seem to struggle with the whole “other people’s lives” part of freedom and liberty.

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      Time once again to trot out Roy Cohn’s monologue from Angels in America:

      Your problem, Henry, is that you are hung up on words, on labels: “gay”, “homosexual”, “lesbian.” You think they tell you who a person sleeps with, but they don’t tell you that. Like all labels, they refer to one thing and one thing only: Where does a person so identified fit in the food chain? In the pecking order. Not ideology or sexual taste, but something much simpler: clout. Who owes me favors. Not who I fuck or who fucks me, but who will pick up the phone when I call. To someone who doesn’t understand this, homosexual is what I am because I sleep with men, but this is wrong. Homosexuals are not men who sleep with other men. Homosexuals are men who, in 15 years of trying, can’t get a pissant anti-discrimination bill through City Council. They are men who know nobody, and who nobody knows. Now, Henry, does that sound like me?

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    I can hear the song that underscored that bottom picture in my head. It’s been like 30 years since I saw that movie, but I remember it as if I heard the song yesterday.

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      Yeah, this joke makes no sense. They like men, so male spies will dress up as women to appeal to them…?

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    Judging by my own friends, middle aged guys who married early without having had a couple of girlfriends and sexual partners before that are the easiest males there are for seductive pretty women to swindle.

    IMHO, it’s a mix of desperation, inexperience, sexual (and maybe more broadly, psychological) immaturity and the delusion that they know best in this domain because of their success in other areas of life.

    Considering that Huang didn’t start a billionaire and is a 63 year old who has been married for 40 years, I bet he fits this profile and was an easy mark.

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    Lol … you don’t need to honeypot these idiots.

    They’d sell their grandmother’s lifeless corpse if it meant it increased their monetary value … they’d sell out their country, millions of citizens, lose wars or fund an enemy fighting against their country if it meant it increased their wealth.

    When people start owning and controlling billions or even trillions of dollars worth of wealth or value … they no longer care about countries because their wealth is equivalent or higher that many small countries around the world. At one point they have no allegiance to any country because it means nothing to them … the only value allegiance has to them is if it grows or shrinks their wealth … if it grows their wealth, they stay supportive or even just neutral but if their value starts decreasing because of their attachment to any one country, they’ll sell out the country for any little bit of money they can get back.

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        Says right there he was a man and hid his genitals. Was even investigated by doctors and there’s nothing abour him being or identifying as anything other than a cis male, other than when he seduced that diplomat.

        Which is what makes it even more bizarre IMO that the French guy couldn’t tell. Like how does it even go deep enough? Or we they doing exclusively anal?

        Though perhaps by modern terms he’d call himself nonbinary or gender fluid. I suspect there just wasn’t good widely used terminology for what he saw himself as last century.

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          Idk, reading through that it felt like the french dude probably had an inkling but was in denial about it. He had slept with men up until that point and was probably just glad he found someone who, at least from the outside, fit the gender he thought/was told he should be attracted to.

          Either that or the dude was just really, really clueless about female genitalia (which, also not impossible if he had only been with men prior). Men today will still say women only have two holes down there so really that not that shocking in a time when sex ed was probably even worse than it is now.

          Editing to add that this triggered a memory of reading a story about a hetero couple who had explicitly only had sex in the woman’s urethra for like 30 years or something??? People are fuckin whack man idk.

          Editimg again because I was curious. It was 52 years and I cannot believe I remembered a random post from fucking r/wtf from 14 years ago. Anyway, in my search I found that apparently urethral coitus is a (super rare) thing and usually because of a medical condition so I apologize for calling those people weird.

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          Intersex people are often assigned male or female based on external genitalia at birth, many don’t even know because testing is expensive and rare. Even more so when this person was born.

          The fact that their genitalia were able to be tucked so easily, and resemble a vagina makes me wonder if they did not develop “fully” due to androgen sensitivity.