Anyway. I don't like broccoli...So I don't eat broccoli, I don't order it at restaurants, and I don't buy it at the store. If I find it in my food, I pick it out and don't eat it....What I don't do is...Find quotes in the Bible and scream about how bad it is that people actually LIKE broccoli....Start websites about how evil broccoli is...Make up a story about a childhood friend who choked on broccoli as a child or became the mad broccoli murderer....Start incessant threads on how bad broccoli is.
Broccoli isn't killing kids at an increasing rate. Anal sex is. In fact, broccoli has been found to be good for the health. Unlike anal sex:
- Youth aged 13 to 24 accounted for an estimated 26% of all new HIV infections in the United States in 2010.
- Most new HIV infections among youth occur among gay and bisexual males; there was a 22% increase in estimated new infections in this group from 2008 to 2010. HIV Among Youth | Age | HIV by Group | HIV/AIDS | CDC
The gaslighting trick to Joe's post is "anal sex isn't something dangerous; it's just something that some people don't like, like broccoli.
See how this works? Joe took something that some people don't like, but is excellent for your health and made it "equal" to anal sex...which almost certainly will kill you given time...in a most horrible way, long before your youth is spent..
I've never seen broccoli affect anyone like the very young man in the photo above, have you?
Yet the only one 'gaslighting' is you- Joe didn't say anything about 'anal sex' not being dangerous.
And none of that has anything to do with your imaginary 'roots' of your continued anti-gay campaign.
He was suggesting that anal sex is merely as benign as eating broccoli. Just one taste or another. That's the gaslighting part. .