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Summary: Pandering
Review: If you don't especially like modern gay culture and want a club to beat it down with, this is your book. I also like gay culture, so I was much less favorably inclined. On the whole, the book is humorless and fairly boring; the authors never really wrap their minds around the full implications of gay culture for modernity. The essays vary in quality, but most of them are competent. Only on occasion are they genuinely thought-provoking. Actually, a few of the "reviews" from other reviewers strike me as better critiques than anything in this book. As for the view that we are entering a "post-gay" age, that's pretty much whistling in the dark.
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Summary: To Thine Own Self Be True
Review: It is amazing, to say the least, the words and thoughts which approach, enter, modify, and explode upon one anothers' minds. One must simply face the fact that "LOVE" is the center "keyword" at hand here. No matter how fluent, grandure, and explicit we describe the facts that we deal with from day to day, each of us must face the simple yet complex truth of who and what we are. Each and every one of us are given the chance to love and to engulf life to the fullest extent. In no way could anyone honestly rebuke nor applaud the undertones nor obvious "overtones" stated within this publication. However, can anyone even begin to notice the eruption of anger and rebellion provided herein? Aside from the "truth" that the color, "red" institutes and demonstrates "anger", and aside from the truth that "ANTI" is not only a negative and irreprochable "sensation", how can anyone defend nor offend the cause and effect of the argument of this novel? Oh, how quite apparent is the anger which flows forth, only to begat more anger. To each his own and different taste. Personally, I, as well as millions of other avid readers, look forward to feeling a pleasant yet warm sensation upon each and every new highway that I venture upon beginning a new adventure with each and every of the literal thounsands of books that I have enountered, roads that I have traveled, and in some cases, such as this particular one, it could not be better described that I not only "traveled" a road, but it was a very uncomfortable and travailing road. So many positive points could easily have been tackled, with the verb, "tackled" being such a heavily overstated description which tends to paint the mere opposite of what both the author and the audience perform, as true writing and the act of "loving what one performs when doing so" can only be experienced when both the "reader" and the "composer" genuinely "love" their duties of doing such. In fact, it would have been and could very well have become such an easier task had this "reader" sensed even the most remote and clandestine "love and appreciation" for the subject that was written, perhaps even a pleasant sensation, which, if approached carefully and with an open yet "pleasant" mood at hand, the simple enactment of thinking of even such a "small yet pleasant thought" can and usually does transform our streams of consciousness to a manner in which even the least-experienced reader(s) (the MOST-experienced author(s) might even be astounded, as well!) could sense the warmness and light-hearted blend and, as is usually the case, even the most simple "warm thought" can be noticeably, yet strikingly obvious upon reviewing our written thoughts, even to the point that we find it so contagious that we pass it from our minds upon our formation of written words that we know and sense the very same results resonating from those who anxiously await to read what was once our own private thoughts. There's nothing much more satisfying that one could feel than a sensation of "completion", and more often than not, these wonderful feelings most often occur within both our writing minds, as well as those who wish to enquire into our thoughts and perceptions, most often, that is, when we choose to have a genuine interest and even the most simple "positive" mindset. This is respectfully one person's completion of his own particular mindset, though unfortunately and most obviously is far from a full, complete, and happy one and it truely is such a shame that one "chooses" to view life in such a negative way when there is so much to love about all of us --- so much that we could never begin to absorb the realities within ourselves, not to mention the wonderfulness within one another's lives. If everyone could see the love within themselves, harsh realities such as this could be avoided. There is much more to say and very little time to say, much less act upon it. From the moment we are born, we have the ability to love one another. Each makes his or her choice. There is no other explanation and those who deny this are denying our purpose for existing. Individuals may continue to coin phrases such as "homosexual", "faggot", "gay", etc.; however, "Love" is a simple "on/off" switch --- either you have it in your heart or you don't. Masking such a true and hallowed notion (and to some, "Reality!")...and to MANY a true emotion "three-dimensionally felt", is a simple manner which harms us all. We all have no excuse for denying the words and feelings which encompass us. Exchanging worse of hate, remorse, and defense lead us to nowhere but a bitter end. Let us all be loving and ... for us if noone else .... love one another and put a bitter end to such a futile war. May God bless each and every one of us. Amen.
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Summary: Ballsy
Review: It's funny how a book about why homos don't need to be 'gay' is attacked for not being gay enough and for failing to offer us the New Mince Forwards. It's as if gays are too delicate and fragile to be exposed to self-criticism and dissent without being immediately soothed and reassured by a vision of The Emerald City. It's precisely because this book doesn't have anything to sell us that it is so refreshing. Odd how a book with 'Anti-' in the title turns out to be CRITICAL, isn't it? The various books which have appeared in the US since 'Anti-Gay' (a UK book, please note) appeared have pretended to be critical but have all been way too gay. All of them have been written by pink snake-oil salesmen who want to convince us that they have patented the 'right' way to be homo - e.g. Signorile and Sullivan squabbling over who should have the keys to the Gay Community pulpit. Their 'critical' dimension has turned out to be mere moralism. Funnily enough, the most 'political' statement in regard to contemporary homosexuality turns out to be an attempt, however unlikely, to free homo-ness from political imperatives (which anyway have just become a branch of consumer politics). 'Anti-Gay' does this with humour and wit, and also with real balls - an organ that sheep-like contemporary gays wouldn't know what to do with, besides shaving and hanging weights from.
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Summary: Confirms your private and worst suspicions
Review: This brief book confirmed my private suspicions about so much of "Gay" life: that it is reckless, vulgar, mindless, irresponsible, a ghetto, etc. If you read this, you will be offended - or you will acquire the independence of mind to stop trying to be a clone in order to be homosexual. Many gay men and women (and I speak as a gay man) do not have the wit to understand how they can love members of ther own sex without buying into the usual boots/buzzcuts/anti-femininity (if you are a lesbian) mindset or the catalog X/camp humor/bar culture (if you are a gay man) mindset/prison. There are a great number of acidic and very funny (and correct) observations here. Yes, it is negative. How could it not be? Some have complained that this book offers no solutiions or alternatives. I do not see why it should when the answer is very simple. We need to grow as human beings and not define ourselves and validate ourselves with the trappings of a trash culture that has only existed for a generation or so. Voluntary self-confinement to a cultural ghetto is even worse than being forced into a concentration camp by the homophobes because it is freely chosen and self-limiting. Have the backbone to think for yourself and to talk back to the gay culture cops when you don't "fit in" (god help anyone who does want to fit in). Forget about being "gay." Love who you choose - and don't worry if you are "living the gay lifestyle" or not. Quite frankly, it isn't worth worrying about, defending, or investing in. If anything, it can kill you. Openly criticize those who claim to speak for us (usually because all opposition has been shouted down). In summary: live your life - not some life designed for you by the gay culture. It is nothing but a strait jacket.
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Summary: Confirms your private and worst suspicions
Review: This brief book confirmed my private suspicions about so much of "Gay" life: that it is reckless, vulgar, mindless, irresponsible, a ghetto, etc. If you read this, you will be offended - or you will acquire the independence of mind to stop trying to be a clone in order to be homosexual. Many gay men and women (and I speak as a gay man) do not have the wit to understand how they can love members of ther own sex without buying into the usual boots/buzzcuts/anti-femininity (if you are a lesbian) mindset or the catalog X/camp humor/bar culture (if you are a gay man) mindset/prison. There are a great number of acidic and very funny (and correct) observations here. Yes, it is negative. How could it not be? Some have complained that this book offers no solutiions or alternatives. I do not see why it should when the answer is very simple. We need to grow as human beings and not define ourselves and validate ourselves with the trappings of a trash culture that has only existed for a generation or so. Voluntary self-confinement to a cultural ghetto is even worse than being forced into a concentration camp by the homophobes because it is freely chosen and self-limiting. Have the backbone to think for yourself and to talk back to the gay culture cops when you don't "fit in" (god help anyone who does want to fit in). Forget about being "gay." Love who you choose - and don't worry if you are "living the gay lifestyle" or not. Quite frankly, it isn't worth worrying about, defending, or investing in. If anything, it can kill you. Openly criticize those who claim to speak for us (usually because all opposition has been shouted down). In summary: live your life - not some life designed for you by the gay culture. It is nothing but a strait jacket.
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Summary: This book offends everyone. Which is why it's so great.
Review: This is just the best book about homosexuality I've ever read. Why? Because it tells the truth.And because it offends everyone. Especially stupid people. It's also very funny. Refreshingly, it doesn't pretend to offer any answers, or new identities. It just asks lots of difficult questions. If you want to get over being gay and get on with being human, this is the book for you.
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