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What *Really* Motivates The Homophobes
In adolescence, they persecuted suspected Homosexuals:
who were threats to the persecutors' sense of masculinity,
which shook them to the rotten cores of their shrivelled souls---
so that they lost the last, least shred of dignty,
and any respect for common propriety.
Starward-Led
Good point you made here.
Good point you made here.
Thanks! The poem was
Thanks! The poem was inspired by bullying I experienced between 1969 and 1974, and now I think I understand their motives and their real lack of self-confidence that they concealed behind almost constant verbal abuse, punctuated by physical assault from time to time. The epithet they constructed around me, "Fairy Jerry" had lingering effects that did not stop until dusk on July 10th, 1976, when I was led to my c.b. handle,"Starwatcher." That, and the distortions of our factory defective c.b., which turned my pipsqueak voice into a heavy baritone, compensated me for the earlier bullying.
Starward-Led [in Chrismation, Januarius]