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- 14 de Oct, 2013
Attributed to Maxim Gorky dijo:
But in serious stuff, Russian anti-LGBT altitude is caused by many things:
1. Like all other "homophobes" and "heterophobes" elsewhere: adverse (in my opinion likely hardwired) biological reaction to public displays of affection that indicate sexual activity seen as unattractive by observers. In one very curious experiment, both pro- and anti-LGBT heterosexual people automatically found pictures of gay men kissing disgusting; the reaction was pretty much identical to their reaction to photos of maggots and rotting food, from a biological point of view. Obviously, when someone finds the participants hot, the reaction fails to trigger, or else there wouldn't be lesbian porn and slash/yaoi/etc.
2. Prison culture being widespread in the Russian society*. There are real men, and there are fuckboys, "roosters", the lowest, most despised caste, used by the rest to relieve sexual tension. Passive homosexuals automatically become roosters in Russian prisons. When Khrushchev decided to allow former convicts to be drafted into the military in the 1960s due to the extreme population losses sustained during WW2, prison culture spread into the Soviet Army, and from there into the society itself, which was previously separate from the criminal world and its customs.
3. The highly militant and collectivist nature of the Russian society (or at least certain parts of it), which doesn't tolerate any deviations from the established societal norms. A man is supposed to look manly, act manly, serve in the army, get married and defend his family and the state to the death when the Enemy attacks, like hundreds of times in Russian history. Obviously, homosexuals, which are stereotyped as everything opposite to that ideal**, are not accepted, to put it mildly. In the 1980s and the 1990s, when a Real Man was supposed to have very short hair, metalheads were attacked by gangs and militant locals for being "gay" (long hair is girly, therefore metalheads are girly, therefore they are gay, therefore they are absolute scum). In the 2000s, emos became the enemy of the people for the exact same reason (and also for actually acting feminine, unlike metalheads, who fought back when attacked). Now, the focus of popular hatred shifted to LGBT proper, because they came out of hiding and refuse to go back.
4. The adoption of marriage equality by Russia's eternal enemy, the West. If the West promotes something, it's obviously evil, therefore it should be not allowed. If a Western idea takes hold in Russia, it's also bad and it should be suppressed... unless it is enforced by someone like Peter the Great, then it's good. The West supports LGBT causes in Russia and abroad - clearly they are scheming to stop Russians and everyone else from procreating. The West also succumbed to LGBT equality, which means they are degenerates and will be soon taken over by immigrants and Islamists, who are 100% straight.
5. Similarly to point 4, highly warped stories of runaway political correctness, SJWism and troonery in the US and Western Europe. Since the 1990s, a lot of Russians think that US has succumbed to feminist terror, because in America you can't hold the door to women in the street, which is completely opposite to Russia, where people will yell at you if you don't. The things we laugh at here at the Farms become highly apocalyptic when Russian sources retell them for their audience. For example, stories about 'transgender kids' from last year turned into something like "Gay people feed their adopted children hormones in order to stop puberty and make them more fuckable" on the Russian Internet. I also remember seeing a highly scaremongering dystopian Russian book from 2012 called "Merciless Tolerance", which claimed LGBT would outlaw heterosexuality when given the opportunity.
Cultural differences lead to conflicts between Russians and Westerners - in one story I've read elsewhere, a Russian teenager that had to live in the US for a while in the 2000s had a very big culture shock when he saw a flamboyant gay dude in high school, and that people didn't care about him. In Russia, he wouldn't be allowed to get away with it. Travel advice issued by Russian Foreign Ministry for Russian citizens going abroad actually warn them against showing any negative reaction to LGBT people, because the default Russian reaction to them is shouting insults at best or attacking them at worst.
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* Thank you, Joseph Stalin, for putting a great part of the population into gulags!
** Disgusting looking transvestite that is dishonourable in all respects - basically your average Twitter troon. When a certain Conchita Wurst won Eurovision, outrage in Russia went off the scale. Many ordinary Russians also tend to regard any remotely effeminate and/or androgynous man as gay and act accordingly.
2. Prison culture being widespread in the Russian society*. There are real men, and there are fuckboys, "roosters", the lowest, most despised caste, used by the rest to relieve sexual tension. Passive homosexuals automatically become roosters in Russian prisons. When Khrushchev decided to allow former convicts to be drafted into the military in the 1960s due to the extreme population losses sustained during WW2, prison culture spread into the Soviet Army, and from there into the society itself, which was previously separate from the criminal world and its customs.
3. The highly militant and collectivist nature of the Russian society (or at least certain parts of it), which doesn't tolerate any deviations from the established societal norms. A man is supposed to look manly, act manly, serve in the army, get married and defend his family and the state to the death when the Enemy attacks, like hundreds of times in Russian history. Obviously, homosexuals, which are stereotyped as everything opposite to that ideal**, are not accepted, to put it mildly. In the 1980s and the 1990s, when a Real Man was supposed to have very short hair, metalheads were attacked by gangs and militant locals for being "gay" (long hair is girly, therefore metalheads are girly, therefore they are gay, therefore they are absolute scum). In the 2000s, emos became the enemy of the people for the exact same reason (and also for actually acting feminine, unlike metalheads, who fought back when attacked). Now, the focus of popular hatred shifted to LGBT proper, because they came out of hiding and refuse to go back.
4. The adoption of marriage equality by Russia's eternal enemy, the West. If the West promotes something, it's obviously evil, therefore it should be not allowed. If a Western idea takes hold in Russia, it's also bad and it should be suppressed... unless it is enforced by someone like Peter the Great, then it's good. The West supports LGBT causes in Russia and abroad - clearly they are scheming to stop Russians and everyone else from procreating. The West also succumbed to LGBT equality, which means they are degenerates and will be soon taken over by immigrants and Islamists, who are 100% straight.
5. Similarly to point 4, highly warped stories of runaway political correctness, SJWism and troonery in the US and Western Europe. Since the 1990s, a lot of Russians think that US has succumbed to feminist terror, because in America you can't hold the door to women in the street, which is completely opposite to Russia, where people will yell at you if you don't. The things we laugh at here at the Farms become highly apocalyptic when Russian sources retell them for their audience. For example, stories about 'transgender kids' from last year turned into something like "Gay people feed their adopted children hormones in order to stop puberty and make them more fuckable" on the Russian Internet. I also remember seeing a highly scaremongering dystopian Russian book from 2012 called "Merciless Tolerance", which claimed LGBT would outlaw heterosexuality when given the opportunity.
Cultural differences lead to conflicts between Russians and Westerners - in one story I've read elsewhere, a Russian teenager that had to live in the US for a while in the 2000s had a very big culture shock when he saw a flamboyant gay dude in high school, and that people didn't care about him. In Russia, he wouldn't be allowed to get away with it. Travel advice issued by Russian Foreign Ministry for Russian citizens going abroad actually warn them against showing any negative reaction to LGBT people, because the default Russian reaction to them is shouting insults at best or attacking them at worst.
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* Thank you, Joseph Stalin, for putting a great part of the population into gulags!
** Disgusting looking transvestite that is dishonourable in all respects - basically your average Twitter troon. When a certain Conchita Wurst won Eurovision, outrage in Russia went off the scale. Many ordinary Russians also tend to regard any remotely effeminate and/or androgynous man as gay and act accordingly.
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