rant · moment 6 of 18
Gay Culture, Underground Sex, and Milo's Self-Loathing
from Crashing Down · #33
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
4 minExtended riff on gay culture being pushed underground historically, personal anecdotes about hooking up in a hotel lounge, and analysis of Milo saying he'd rather not be gay.
- 10:29Tim reads a book as a young teenager figuring out he was gay, featuring a child describing being molested and liking it.
- 10:43The problem with sexual crime is that the act itself may feel good, distorting a child's perception of sexual reality.
- 11:32Conversation about this topic feels like driving in the Hollywood Hills at night—dangerous and you have to keep pulling over.
- 11:54Speech is being policed by different entities and people's jobs and good names are on the line, so they give heavily edited versions of what they're saying.
- 12:36The right wing claims gay people have a different sexual code than straight people, which Tim says has some truth—gay and straight cultures are different.
- 13:10Reducing gay people to just sex and claiming they're incapable of monogamy isn't true; many gay men and lesbians have been in committed relationships for a long time.
- 13:45Gay people were told they were disgusting, dirty freaks, so they behaved in ways that weren't mainstream.
- 14:20When you're forced underground and told you're a disgusting freak, you have sex parties and clubs and your lifestyle becomes underground as a result.