This is the story of our species, and many of our more social relatives. Why is it that when one of my budgerigars starts sitting in a breeding box, all the others crowd around squawking wtf mate?
A lot of it is about making noise to gain authority. Taking on an issue makes you seem like an in charge guy. We are a stupid species but all considered we do quite well for colonies of microscopic cells.
Deep-penetrating Gaydar™ certainly falls under the heading of active vs. passive Gaydar™. Likely the Ugandan officials obtained the most satisfying results that way.
I tried to think of a joke about faces in porn, and how the Ugandan filter to “detect homos and porn actors” was made obsolete by AI : it’s all in the face!
But thinking about it all, i get scared.
Damn, my moustache didn’t fool them all these years: its my eyebrows giving me away!
(no closet for me where i live, but times like these make me grateful i’m not young anymore. Damn!)
While it’s been very gratifying to see their efforts fail so miserably in the US it’s depressing that they still have the resources to export their message.
Thank you for that reminder that I shouldn’t be so glib. Some of the progress made here has already been rolled back and it looks like a lot more is going to be.