Vladimir Putin is Russia’s New Homophobic Dictator

Guardian Express ^ | July 2, 2013. | A. James

[edpc]

Honestly, now....look at that book cover and tell me he's homophobic. Spends an hour or two doing that, then a couple more sitting in a steam room with a bunch of naked dudes swatting themselves with birch branches.

Makes Liberace look macho.

[edpc]

See 21

[TexGrill]

Now I’m starting to have doubts. It’s like when I lived in South Korea and some Korean guys said they were going to visit a sauna and I thought it was going to be a massage parlor with some pretty girls. But I was wrong. I was out of that place quicker than you can say “kimchi.” I learned a day later, the code words should be “Room Salon” not “Sauna” if you want to meet some Korean juicy girls.

[GeronL]

I will never understand the Asian public bath - okay in Japervertland I would believe it

[TexGrill]

I can’t either. If I’m gonna run around naked than there better be some hot girls or I’m gone. Why should a man get a massage from another man if he’s not gay. It doesn’t make sense to me.

[gotribe]

His is MY President, too.

[skinkinthegrass]

bm

[BwanaNdege]

"oddly , I wish our Pressy Prissy was more like Putin"

[duckworth]

homo “phobic...” Nice word they made up, implying fear of a bunch of pansies. I don’t think it’s fear Putnick is feeling. But hey, nice try on controlling the language.

[Rebelbase]

“Why should a man get a massage from another man if he’s not gay.”

When I get a knot in my back or screw my neck up and am miserable in pain, it doesn’t matter who works it out.

[Stepan12]

There’s a lot of self defense techniques in Sambo (Cambo in an imitation of cyrilli). I took it for a time and it was pretty neat. You may be referring to sanyo. Sanyo is the Russian name for judo.

[Iron Munro]

[elcid1970]

Since “homos” from the Greek means “same” & “phobos” means “fear”, then strictly speaking a “homophobe” is someone who fears those who have exactly the same characteristics as oneself.

Me, I’m not afraid of other conservative heterosexual God-fearing gun owning FReepers. My kind of folks, in fact.

Anyway, beware of Putin. Just because he has dissed Obama repeatedly & it’s fun to watch, doesn’t mean that `the enemy of my enemy is my friend’.

[PhiloBedo]

I don’t think Putin is afraid of queers, as the term implies, but rather finds their behavior repulsive.

[fireman15]

It is just an insane situation when our home grown communists are worse by many measures than the leader of the an evil empire responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of their own citizens.

[skinkinthegrass]

give 'em time; in time, they'll far exceed all of Stalin's dreams..

[fireman15]

Are you speaking of the Obamunists or the Communists or both? They are all capable of exceeding Stalin’s dreams.

[skinkinthegrass]

is there any real difference; except for time?