Why don't they keep it to themselves?

This week there were a couple of Western apparatchiks who confessed to the world they were gay. Came out of the closet, as they call it. One was Ken Mehlman, another one – Crispin Blunt, UK prisons minister. The first confession seems to have made quite a splash in the news...



Also, it makes me wonder: Why should I see all this stuff? Why should anyone in the general public give a a flying monkey's bollocks about some public figure being a faggot? Or not being one?

Now, before someone starts bashing me for gay-bashing: I admit that I do not like all that publicity given to someone being gay. It's because I can't see this as relevant to anything. Their sexual orientation belongs to the same category as their choice of underwear and their idea of good breakfast: Their private life. They can be gay, or straight, or whatever they are, just stop throwing that information at me! If the man is Prisons minister, all that's relevant is how he's doing his duty, not who he sleeps with.

Actually, I see this as part of the bigger problem: All these minorities are trying to control the majority. It means nothing to me if the person is gay (it's their private life, and i have no right to mess with it). But then you get the crap like "Love parades" (even in Nepal they had one this week) and "gay pride" – well, that's another story. I fail to see the reason to be proud (or ashamed, for that matter) in one's sexual orientation. It's like being proud of having eaten a croissant for breakfast (you can feel pride, but it's stupid). That's what leads to the things like that Hungarian professor's lawsuit.

It would be funny if it wasn't so alarming, actually: Too often instead of equality some minority rights activists actually promote preferential treatment for their group. It happens with gays, negroes, women – all based on the false assumption that all people are equal. Well, that's not so. Especially women are not equal to men. No man to date had managed to give birth to a child, you know, but countless women were doing it from the dawn of man. That does not make them better or inferior – just different.

So maybe it's time to give up all this crap already? We must promote equal rights for everyone, but without preferential treatments.