When I finished reading Peachy Keenan “Everyone is gay, can you blame them?” I got a sinking feeling it my stomach. Keenan was using satire to describe what she sees as a problem with modern academia. She is trying to explain why 40 % of the student body of Brown calls themselves Bisexual/Gay/Trans. She says being Gay or Trans is the in thing to be right now and thus the only way to get ahead, particularly in a weird Ivy League school such at Brown, is to say you are gay or, if you really want to grab power, get a sexual reassignment surgery.

Maybe there is a giggle or grin here. There is also something more worrisome and insidious — Gay and Trans people have power and you better bow down to them in order to get ahead. This is false. Most gays are not in a position of power. Most college students are still heterosexual with little evidence that this is changing. There is no reason to be worried about the Brown survey. Gays do not want to make your children gay. Gays do not want your children changing their gender. The problem with satire is there are people who get it and people who don’t. There is the danger that the ones who don’t will believe that Gays are all powerful and need to be stopped. Once you have a culprit, then the humorless can remove the culprit from power.