There is a Point Being Missed Here.

So, Larry Craig is in some hot water.

Everyone's been talking about how he's gay or not gay or bi or a woman or a penguin or whatever. Everyone's been talking about whether he will resign. Everyone's been talking about gay rights.

Okay, well, in some respects, great, because we SHOULD be talking about gay rights, always and until everyone gets their heads out of their asses and realizes that people don't control who they love and that therefore we should all leave them the hell alone, but in this context it tends to be damaging since the unspoken connection is "gay people do creepy shit like Craig did." So okay, no points to anyone there. If Craig IS gay, which frankly it seems like he is, which I think not because of any scurrilous behavior, but because he has been freaking shit and holding press conferences to declare his straightness over and over again, grade school style...IF Craig is gay, then I hope that in time it won't just be Barney Frank excoriating him for his shitty voting record on gay rights and issues, because that is some GROSS hypocrite action right there.

Fine.


But can we just put all this "he's wrong because he's GAY"/"he should be able to do what he wants because he's GAY" stuff aside for one sec and mention, just in passing, that there is no reason to be FUCKING IN A BATHROOM? It seriously cracks me up that this has almost been lost in the coverage. How screwed up are we, as a society, that the main issue has been this guy's sexual orientation, as opposed to the idea that he may have been soliciting sex in an airport bathroom. Innocent until proven guilty and all, and honestly I don't even understand the process of the whole gay bathroom sex procurement ritual but he is supposed to have been looking for SEX! IN A PUBLIC! BATHROOM! WHAT IN THE BLUE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?

Sometimes the news makes me extra super tired.