I chanced upon his post while loading the ping.sg main page. And I find this part the most amusing: ‘I feel that lesbians are totally fine (except for the fact that they are taking away girls that we could be dating)“.

I found myself laughing at it as I know many of my friends enjoyed looking at lesbian women, because they would choose to believe that she might be a bi-sexual who would enjoy pseudo-sex with her lesbian partner as much as she would enjoy the real thing with a real male. That’s not including the one who plays the part of the male, of course. Not to mention I know some guy who once said, “I like lesbians. Buy 1 get 1 free.” But that was way before he tried to be funny at a lesbian pub and end up with a cup of Bloody Mary that has a tampon sticking out of it – courtesy of the ‘male’ partner of a gorgeous lesbian girl he was trying to pick up.

It also reminds me that, about a dozen years ago, at one of my previous workplace, a colleague stormed into my office and bellowed at all of us, ‘YOU ALL didn’t tell me she is a woman. I was talking to her earlier on about the Thai prostitute I screwed last night and the service of which girls are good! Some more, she has been using the Gents!!’ (He was referring to one of our lesbian colleagues who dressed like a guy most of the time and goes by a guy’s name.)

I did find it a little amusing so I asked him two things: ‘What difference does it make if she used the Gents, since she isn’t going to stand at the urinal and pee but would use the cubicles?’ and ‘If you have no problems telling any other guy about your exploits at Geylang, what’s the problem with telling her?’

The reply was stunning, “You mean you would tell a woman you go to the prostitutes?! And hey, I don’t want any woman peeking at my pecker when I pee, especially without me knowing it!”

That was quite a laugh because a few moments ago he was treating her like brother-brother… And that reminds of another incident whereby I asked one of my female friends if she would find it alright for transvestites to use the ladies. Her replied surprised me because it was a resounding NO, because to her, the transvestite is still a man. And, before I popped that question she was raving about we men discriminates against homosexuals and such. I had to point out that technically, transvestites are homosexuals too.

So what is the point I am trying to make? It is simply this, the homosexual / lesbian lobby has so well politicized the issue, and has done a great ‘marketing job’ in making the people feel it is acceptable. But that is as long as the people doesn’t find their own personal interests threatened by them. Regardless if the threat is real or perceived, it is quite interesting to see just how fast some of them change sides once they feel their own self interest is threatened.

Anyway, I used to joke with an old friend that when it is said, “有人的地方就有江湖”, it simply means that where there’s people, there’s politics. And politics to me is merely a matter of people coming together to protect their own self interest – while presenting it as the interest of the majority of the people – by finding strength in the numbers or getting those who has no stake in it to agree with it.

And that’s why the debate on Section 377A has never gotten much attention from me. After all, while it is my stand that discrimination should not be allowed, are we seeing discrimination in the form of the police storming into the homes of homosexual couples or into hotel rooms to arrest them in their act? Or is Section 377A used to deny them jobs, health care, or every other thing that heterosexual citizens are entitled to in Singapore – other than marriage, of course? If not, then let this dumb law be, though I would agree that it leaves room for a possibly fascist regime to abuse it in the future.

Perhaps, someone just looked into the crystal ball and find out that some major discrimination against homosexual people is going to be happening some time soon…