Rose McGowan's Aggressive Attack Of The Gay Community Is Damaging And Unfair

Rose McGowan has taken to the internet to blast the gay community, ostensibly for being self-interested, shallow and for not giving a hoot about women's rights.

In an odd and relatively garbled interview, she attacked homosexual men for failing to stand up for women's rights, claiming that they are "as mysogynistic as straight men, if not more so."

Speaking to author of American Psycho, Brett Easton Ellis - who is himself gay - on his popular podcast, the Charmed actress said: “You wanna talk about the fact that I have heard nobody in the gay community, no gay males, standing up for women on any level?”

"I think it’s what happens to you as a group when you are starting to get most of what you fought for," she continued.

"What do you do now? What I would hope they would do is extend a hand to women. Women, by-and-large, have very much helped the gay community get to where they are today," Rose went on.

Speaking of a perceived selfishness, she delivered a final, damning blow: "I see now people who have basically fought for the right to stand on top of a float wearing an orange speedo and take molly [MDMA]."

Let's Unpack This

Rose McGowan's comments are damaging for a number of reasons, but two of these reasons are particularly objectionable.

Firstly, the language she uses in her tirade is as marginalising and insulting as any that has been used against women.

By conjuring the image of orange speedos and drug taking, she reduces the gay community to a "camp"/ reprobate stereotype that is neither representative, nor fair of homosexual people as a whole.

This is exactly the sort of demeaning generalisation that women have fought against for centuries and it undermines her "misogyny" argument.

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Secondly, the suggestion that "no gay males" have ever stood up for women is just plain wrong.

Author and journalist Dan Savage is just one example of a gay man who has been extremely vocal and active in the women's rights sphere.

His opinions about rape culture and abortion are controversial, meaning he's received a lot of criticism too, but there is no denying that he's an activist for women.

In an interview with feminist Amy Richards, Dan had this to say of the pro-choice movement: "We should be fighting to put women who have an unplanned pregnancy in a place where they can make a free choice...instead of having a 'choice' inflicted upon them."

Gay fiction writer Tyler Curry has written THIS BLOG for The Huffington post about exactly why homosexuality and feminism are so easily synthesised.

In it, he praises polititian Hilary Clinton and CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer for demonstrating that power and success do not have to be "masculine" traits.

In fact, that's just one of a number of blogs on the HuffPo site that praise the connection between the homosexual community and feminism.

Oh, Rose...

Looking closely at the statements made by Rose McGowan, it seems increasingly clear that they stem from some personal grudge or other.

“I have an indictment of the gay community right now, I’m actually really upset with them," she said, alluding to some hidden reason for her vitriol.

It is true that some injustices do need to be called into question from time to time and some people should be held to account for unfavourable behaviour, but inciting this sort of animosity between two marginalised communities, who by and large appear to help each other an awful lot, is damaging and unhelpful.

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