Eòghann MacLeòid

Gael in Beijing; @CPBritain member; recovering Platonist; dabbled in Scots law; now teaching, taking photographs and studying Chinese cinema. 四海之内皆兄弟也。

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

Tha a h-uile duine nam bràithrean.

四海之内皆兄弟也。

All men are brothers.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

You misunderstand me. I am opposed to surrogacy in all cases. I do not think same-sex couples should be allowed to engage in it, and this is not a right currently afforded to heterosexuals. So I will ask again: what would be the negative consequence of same-sex couples being given the same rights as heterosexual couples?

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@ee_start @Alade_Archaman Yeah, I understand. I disagree, personally, with this overly cautious attitude, but then I am an outsider in China and I always will be. My heart breaks for my LGBT friends though.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

I know, it’s infuriating. If someone comes home drunk and decides to take out his frustration on his family, the local police will often decide it’s a ‘family matter’ and in the interests of stability ask the parties involved to mediate rather than dealing with the violent individual according to the law. In this sense, Mao Zedong was right to try to rid China of these feudal attitudes during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Confucianism is a plague.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@GBbx9x You’re being deliberately glib and obtuse. If you’re not going to engage with me in good faith, fuck off.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@ee_start @Alade_Archaman I’m not talking about metaphysical demands. I’m asking what would be the downside to same-sex couples being afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples?

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@X1707c99 @Alade_Archaman I’m not talking about surrogacy, I’m talking about same-sex couples being afforded the same rights (not privileges; I am not asking about anyone being placed above anyone else) as heterosexual couples.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

I get that and I don’t think outside NGOs should be allowed to interfere with China’s internal affairs. My question is more in the sense of if same-sex couple were afforded the same rights as straight couples, what would be the negative effects of that? I’m not talking about violating Confucian values because, really, who cares about Confucius?

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@wnghu229357 You cannot induce someone to be gay. You are a fool, a wittering nobody with nothing to say and nobody that would be interested in listening even if you did manage, somehow, to put together a thought that was worth pondering.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@Alade_Archaman What demands are they making that you think are unreasonable or would harm the rights of other groups?

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@xshnhuhu148882 @jasonalone99 You are an absolute freak, my friend. I wish you nothing but unhappiness, misery and agony in this life.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@PZaam503 The definition of madness, no?

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@SomaElysium 太好看了 📸

[伯恩施坦谈治国理政 @Leninbeliever]

大家平时会歧视异性恋吗？ 异性恋是不是都被同性伤害过？总之我对异性恋的态度是不支持但也不反对，不要宣传这个东西，现在社会上太多跟风潮酷小孩了，万一都学异性恋未成年就生孩子怎么办？

男人和女人思维方式和大脑结构都不一样，怎么能待在一起的啊？ 真是完全不理解

还好我是正常的同性恋取向

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

It is not a case of me wanting either myself or my son to be treated as a superior; that couldn’t be further from the truth. Already, however, he has experienced teasing from other children and I myself have witnessed the bullying of mixed-race children in China, so whether your claim that this doesn’t happen is down to wilful ignorance or something else, I’m not sure.

Regardless, your proposition that LGBT people should not be allowed to marry or adopt children because it may lead to the child experiencing bullying or lead to human trafficking is so ridiculous, so absurd, so lacking in evidence and basic human feeling that I feel we are never going to be reconciled on this issue. Best of luck to you.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@wangfan1111 My son is half-Chinese. It is possible, even likely, that he will be discriminated against in China or experience bullying at school. Should I not have had him? Is his existence tainted because of this possibility?

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@TunnockCup Was wringing my hands over putting James Robertson on mine. What a writer.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

That is, I’m afraid, absolute nonsense. By your logic, same-sex couples won’t have children anyway whether they’re married or not so what’s the harm? Adopted children of same-sex couples potentially facing stigmatisation or discrimination is surely an issue for schools to deal with as they would with any other case of bullying which, as I’m sure you know, happens at every school in the world. As for the point about child trafficking, I’m almost speechless. This is the sort of baseless, scare-tactic homophobia that was rampant when I was a child and had, I naïvely assumed, mostly disappeared. If I were you, I would be ashamed of being so ignorant.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@wangfan1111 Let’s do a thought experiment. Say that same-sex marriage was implemented in China tomorrow. Which other group would have their rights encroached upon? Who else is harmed if this right is granted?

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

I’m afraid that if you think the acceptance of family members is the only obstacle facing transgender people in China then you are gravely mistaken. I would encourage you strongly to speak to transgender people here with an open mind and understand their material conditions, the difficulties they face and so on.

[Eòghann MacLeòid @laomasugelan]

@reallge @amber_medusozoa Now you’re talking strategy and tactics—that is a question for the community to resolve itself. I don’t think the views of individuals within the community determines whether they deserve equal rights or not in an abstract sense.