User talk:Bushcutter
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Bushcutter is a retired professor of aeronautical engineering, and contributes to engineering topics, unless, of course, some politically correct nonsense creeps into engineering matters. Then he will try to correct any resulting engineering errors.
[edit] Politically correct sense
It is entirely normal to make changes without asking other editors - especially when they are manifestly motivated by prejudice. You clearly know so little about this that you seem to think that Billing was concerned with events 70 years ago in WW2. You even talk nonsense about Nazis being homosexual. You are aware are you not that they eliminated homosexual members in 1934, strengthened anti-homosexual legislation and imprisoned homosexuals? No that this matters a jot, since Pemberton Billing's campaign was in 1918, during WW1. As for blackmail, it's true that homosexuality can a reason for it, so can heterosexuality. Never heard of Mata Hari? Unrestrained heterosexual behaviour is far more commonly associated with such problems than homosexuality. Honeytraps are easier in times of war when people are likely to act recklessly. Prostitution, promiscuity and rape are far more common in wartime. Spread of venereal disease was one of the main physical dangers that threatened the health of troops. You think homosexuality led to that? Nope. It was heterosexual prostitution. Pemberton Billing's fears were based on an irrational fear of 'abnormality', which he associated with non-Anglo culture and social decay. He wasn't alone. You find the same prejudices, myths and fantasies in other writers of the era such as John Buchan. Paul B (talk) 23:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
