Did a few google searches on myself when I finally managed to get a computer and broadband again (yeah, I’m a conceited fucker, ain’t I) and found something many would consider dry analysis, but which I find funny as hell:

Western Journal of Communication: Making Sense of ‘God Hates Fags’ and ‘Thank God for 9/11′: A Thematic Analysis of Milbloggers’ Responses to Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church

When bloggers imagine Phelps and kin primarily as antigay protesters, they endorse forms of counterprotest that thematize sexuality. Responding to a report that members of the Boston Police Department’s bagpipe band played over the protesters’ chants, Seawitch (Blackfive) proclaims, ‘‘It was a great thing that the police did to drown out their message of hate, stupidity, and homophobia.’’ This response exemplifies the frame of Phelps as antigay and decries his homophobia. More playfully, two bloggers, keen to rumors of the Phelps family’s fire-spark litigiousness, caution
against potentially actionable counterprotest signs announcing ‘‘Phelps is Gay’’ and wonder if the interrogatory form of ‘‘Is Phelps Gay?’’ would be less actionable (Blackfive). While an amusing exchange on the theme of sexuality, these remarks present a complicated deployment of sexuality. If Phelps is meant to be humiliated by an accusation of homosexuality, then homosexuality is reified as shameful. Similar mobilizations of homosexuality and homo-semiotics as counterprotest tactics add further ideological complications. In a brief exchange in The Mudville Gazette, Graumagus suggests ‘‘wearing leatherboy gear, complete with assless chaps, and the sides and back of the truck should read ‘Bruce’s Gerbil Farm’’’; in response, Bloodspite ostensibly endorses such homo-semiotics but warns Graumagus that he will have to ‘‘find some other sucker’’ to wear the chaps. The strange persistence of the rectum-traversing gerbil, the characterization of chaps as outrageous and solely the province of gay men rather than part of anyone’s earnest and legitimate sexual expression, and the reluctance to code oneself in homo-semiotics even temporarily all mobilize aberrant homosexuality as a mode of critique against Phelps. The contrast between endorsing homo-semiotics as a mode of counterprotest and applauding police officers’ fight against homophobia underscores an important point: Seawitch’s remark notwithstanding, blog participants rarely describe or imagine Phelps’ counterprotesters as engaging in antihomophobia activism. This is so because blog posters overwhelmingly frame the WBC as antiwar protesters rather than antigay protesters.

(All emphasis mine)

So here we have a professional journal written by communication specialists deconstructing something I said off the cuff involving prostate spelunking rodents and assless chaps.

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA aahhh ahhh AHAHHAHAhaaa aahhhh aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh (wipes tears from eyes)

I giggled like a goddamn schoolgirl when I read that.

If any of you fine scholars from the WJC should happen across my humble abode, let me simplify this for you a wee bit:

The overwhelming majority of bloggers do not classify Fred Phelps and the members of the Westboro Baptist Church (I’m not linking those assholes) as either anti-gay or anti-war.

We classify them as human sewage unworthy of the oxygen they consume. If reincarnation and karma exist, every one of those sign waving maggots will come back as a West Hollywood toilet stall divider with a glory hole in it.

As for the strange persistence of the RTG: it’s not strange at all.

It’s fucking funny. Sick, twisted, and wrong- but that only makes it funnier.

If you need proof, here’s exibit A:

Hope that clears things up for you.

Filed under: Odd Musings by Graumagus