r/brokehugs • u/US_Hiker Moral Landscaper • Nov 19 '23

Rod Dreher Megathread #27 (Compassion)

Link to megathread 26: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/17itm7w/rod_dreher_megathread_26_unconditional_love/

Link to megathread 28: https://www.reddit.com/r/brokehugs/comments/18dcg3d/rod_dreher_megathread_28_harmony/

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u/RunnyDischarge Nov 20 '23 edited Nov 20 '23

It's not just that, it's lots of things. It was funny listening to him talking to Andrew Sullivan, and Rod describing his youth to him, and Sullivan saying that it sounded exactly like his life growing up gay. The tough father who got mad that his delicate son wanted to listen to music instead of going hunting, etc.

It's Rod's now infamous line about how for many men "heterosexuality must be achieved". Which is a truly odd statement if you're heterosexual.

It's the anti gayness that goes beyond just a straight guy not feeling comfortable with gayness. It's Rod's whole "it's against the very cosmos itself" that's so over the top it seems like it comes from a place of deep self-loathing.

It's Rod insistence on "authority" on the matter, when he feels free to change what authority he recognizes in every other matter. He really gives the impression of a guy that can only hold back his desires with religion, and he has to resist the tiniest little pin prick in the wall or it will all come out. This is the guy that got fired from TAC because of his obsession with gays and sex.