Hating on Homophobia (and TfL, of course)

With painstaking regularity, TfL seem out to alienate pretty much everyone in London by doing spurious and/or weird things. Their newest complete cock-up involved using the police to stop drivers so that they could complete a TfL survey about where they were going. Glitterditch doesn't normally agree with gruff, I-know-my-rights journalists from the Times, but perhaps this time might be an exception - doing that was wrong on a plethora of levels.

However, yet again we become caught in the tangled subject of wasting police time. Surely, our valiant columnist whines, the police have better things to do with their day? With all of the burglaries and stabbings going on can't they just get on with solving crime instead of taking part in spurious surveys? Well, of course they can. And, we are happy to announce, they do.

News of 200 hate crime arrests to celebrate the International Day Against Homophobia should be giving her cause for cheer this morning. It is certainly cheering to us as we imagine a crowd of bigots banged up together all sweaty and frustrated, nervously making crap comments about dropping the soap. The spectacular idiocy of homophobes makes us think that perhaps they should be looked after and studied, like unusual and exotic breeds of monkey.

We know the issues, of course. Blah blah freedom of speech, etc. But at the same time can't help but wonder that if you're homophobic today you must have failed to grasp a few fundamental principles along life's path. Let's face it, homophobes in 2008 are so quaintly archaic that we can be forgiven for wanting to prod them and poke them and work out what makes them act so weird.

Oh, God. We've just remembered. Scratch everything we just said, and don't try to sue us.

Photo courtesy of Tina and Maz on flickr.

Written by Nikki on 22 May 2008 9:36 AM. Permalink