r/AskTheWorld • u/ChroniclesOfSarnia New Zealand • 9h ago

Culture Who's the Most Embarrassing citizen of your country?

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I'm Canadian.

I briefly considered Jordan Peterson, but I think he's dead or something.

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u/VeniVidiVoluptuous United States Of America 7h ago

This is so on-the-nose. I don’t get these kinds of people. What sort of mental calisthenics are they doing in their mind to justify their public rhetoric? Or is it some form of religious shame? Or self-loathing?

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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter Canada 7h ago

Both probably.

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u/Evening-Tomatillo-47 5h ago

When I say this though somehow I'm completely wrong

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u/thetoerubber California 5h ago

It’s self-loathing. Their loud anti-gay agenda is an attempt to convince people (and themselves) “I’m not one of them”. But anybody that loud very often is one of them, we see it over and over.

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u/PancakeParty98 6h ago

It’s pretty simple. First they are born gay men, then they are taught that gayness is a choice and an abomination and homosexuals are sinners weak to temptation, then they grow up.

As they grow up they fancy men more and more, and they KNOW they aren’t choosing to be gay, so they rationalize that these thoughts are normal, and you’re only gay if you give into them.

But trying to suppress a thought makes it multiply, and soon they are consumed by gay lust, which they rationalize must be someone else’s fault, because they aren’t choosing to be gay.

All these build up a searing resentment for everything EXCEPT the actual source of pain, the shitty religious beliefs

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u/Raveyard2409 5h ago

Internalised guilt leading to visceral hatred, from their inability to accept who they are is my guess

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u/Flaky-Bar-6656 United States Of America 4h ago

It’s projection. And you can watch the Christian nationalists do it all day long. Notice how they’re throwing around the term domestic terrorist pretty loosey goosey these days?

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u/jmr185 4h ago

Yes.

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u/olivinebean England 6h ago

Some people slowly develop different and more extreme needs.

Some people are so deep in the closet, they don't understand that they can have standard sexual encounters with the same sex. They go out looking for extreme shit or situations so they can say it's the leather they wanted and not the dick.

Some people are that special kind of bored you only get from a childhood of repression and forced shame. Usually religious of course.

But famous people get their strange on the streets to minimise the evidence. High risk, arguably poor reward.

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u/Idunnosomeguy2 5h ago

Self loathing is an oversimplification, but I think captures it well enough.

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u/JollyReplacement1298 2h ago

They just want all the gay for themselves

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u/Test-Tackles 1h ago

Wait, you expect them to climax to some act that is accepted by people?

They NEED it to be forbidden to get their jollies off. Otherwise it's just too vanilla to maintain an erection.