Yes, there’s more to it than that and it’s quite stupid and also quite bigoted. Republicans don’t need to know that. They didn’t and won’t read his book anyway.
When he brought up the issue with his grandmother — known to Vance as “Mamaw” — she replied bluntly: “Don’t be a fucking idiot, how would you know that you’re gay?”
When Vance explained his reasoning, she laughed.
“JD, do you want to suck dicks?” she said, according to the book.
So… 8 year old JD Vance instead wanted to eat pussy?
Considering not all straight women want to suck dicks, I don’t think the desire to suck dick is a good determinant of whether you’re gay or not anyway.
…… it’s almost as if there are subtle nuances to human sexuality that can’t easily be defined by how you enjoy your dick ….
Don’t ever expect people who’ve been brainwashed to notice subtle nuances. Most of them don’t even know their candidate is a conman and a rapist.
Especially when you can be both gay and asexual.
Cool can you combine those into gaysexual
Yeah, the type of person you’re attracted to and what you want to do with that type of person are two different things.
Also, if eight year old Vance brought this up with his public school teacher and they gave him the same kind of response (minus the “suck dicks” and “fucking idiot” parts), conservatives would absolutely lose their shit over “grooming”
Considering his grandma followed it up with
“And even if you did want to suck dicks, that would be okay,” she replied. “God would still love you.”
He clearly didn’t get homophobia from her.
Also, was this his grandmother saying that she knows that SHE’S straight because she wants to suck dick?
TIL J.D. Vance’s mamaw likes to suck dicks.
It was when his (step)Mamaw got stuck in the washer that he truly learned he wasn’t gay.
Without fail, another anti-LGBT Republican with stories about “sexual confusion” and “the temptation of same-sex relations” that all but confirm that they are queer and closeted.
A coworker of mine once tried to pick my brain on gay marriage say something to the effect of “people like you and I wouldn’t be resisting the urge if we didn’t know it was wrong”. I had to pop his bubble by explaining to him that I had never felt the temptation to be gay ever in my life because I am straight, but if I really wanted dick I’d seek it out because sex is fun and I’ll have it with anyone if think it will be mutually enjoyable.
He literally couldn’t wrap his brain around the idea that I was completely willing to have sex with any person that struck my fancy, but that men were never even a consideration. He was experiencing the exact opposite.
Needless to say, he’s still deeply closeted, but he doesn’t bring up gay marriage stuff anymore to me because I think I gave him an ongoing existential crisis. I hope he figures it out eventually…
But statistically, once you’re so deep in the closet that you’ve convinced yourself that everyone wants gay sex, and only “sinners” give into that urge, you’re probably not in the path to figuring anything out. Unfortunately, these people always vote for Fascism, constructing the prison that they themselves will be locked in.
It makes me wonder if a “straight people don’t have to fight gay urges” PR campaign might neuter a lot of this anti-gay angle. Turn these “inspirational” lies into admissions and use their hate against them.
It’s deeply tragic isn’t it, how good we are at lying to ourselves?
Explains the eyeliner
Should we tell him? I think we should tell him.
So, is he…
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Fundamentally misrepresenting homosexually as self delusion and a choice, or
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A closet homosexual in denial, like so many other homophobes
I guess they’re not mutually exclusive.
“I closeted myself and am resigned to a loveless marriage in my pursuit of a political career. Why can’t you?”
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I think he’s probably trolling in some way? Or maybe this is exactly what some conservatives want to hear, so that’s why he’s saying it. He seems to have learned exactly what to say to make people like him.
This is the same guy who hopes everyone has forgotten that he called Trump “America’s Hitler,” so he could just be extremely stupid.
I don’t think he’s stupid. Some people who grow up poor develop a talent for knowing how to ingratiate themselves to others. His changing opinion simply means that the target he wants to charm has changed.
I don’t think he’s stupid…
More to this he graduated undergrad summa cum laude and got his law degree from Yale. I think this dude is actually smart and that concerns me.
It was part of his memoir written at the age of 22. He was trying to sound cool and clever and add color to his grandmother’s character because she asked a 6 year old if he wanted to suck dicks. I wouldn’t think too hard about it.
JD Vance once wrote that he ‘convinced myself that I was gay’ when he was a kid
And just who is he blaming for that?
Probably liberals and the woke agenda.
Nit: the title of the post could simply strike the words “that he” to read much more naturally
I don’t disagree, but you have to post the headline the way it was written on the original site. That’s a community rule.
Thanks, then I redirect my nit at the article!
His eyeliner still thinks so.
That’s just a little manscaping! He’s just metrosexual!
Also, he hates drag queens. Don’t you dare suggest anything.
The “Hillbilly Elegy” movie sissy hypno scene was crazy. Can’t believe they left that in.
This explains so much about why he hates the gays and believes in “Traditional Family” (a word which here means, female slavery to a man)
So I get it, but that adds further fuel to my idea that Trump is using him to throw him under the bus.