Friday, October 17, 2025

Andrew Wheeler, Hey Mary

According to the author, this is 'not an autobiographical work'.

You don't say.

This isn't just cringe. It's depressingly cringe. Wheeler is supposed to have written a comic book about what it's like to be a gay Catholic teenager, and yet he clearly knows nothing about Catholics - either what Catholics believe, or even how they speak.

Something tells me this is just self-justification (and of course the normalisation of one's own peccadilloes) masquerading as a plea for tolerance, whilst at the same time exploiting a sort of American anti-Catholic bigotry that is very old and very nasty indeed.

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