Quote: (04-15-2014 12:10 PM)Farmageddon Wrote:
Who gives a shit if he was gay? He was also one of the wittiest, most engaging writers in all of human history. The Portrait of Dorian Grey is one of the best books I have ever read.
Either Wilde or Voltaire was the wittiest person to ever live. Christopher Hitchens was definitely up there too.
My favorite Wilde quote: "If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you."
One reason he was such a good observer of male-female relations was because he was gay, actually. He had no horse in the race, so he could sit back and observe the battle of the sexes as if it was spectacle.
His comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a good example of this -- and still considered one of the greatest plays in the English language.
The media likes to present us with a series of Blue Pill, feminist-loving gay men, but in real life, I've found there are quite a few gay men who wax as cynical about women as Oscar Wilde and make no apologies.