Radio caller’s rationale for why gay guys shouldn’t be police officers wins the gold in mental gymnastics
Watch below. Swarbrick pushed back, telling the caller he was talking “nonsense.” The host said he had a gay policeman with him who was 6’3” (190cm) who could “crush him.” David admitted “That’s what we need” and conceded he’d be happy to see such a hulking gay man on the frontline. “So you’ve undermined your policy on day one?” countered Swarbrick. “But I don’t think you’d get many gay guys who are 6 foot 3,” argued the caller. “To be fair, you don’t get many guys who are 6 foot 3,” replied Swarbrick. “It’s not the average height.”Online, responders wonder if the caller was confusing gay men “with elves.” Others said his views were common amongst seniors, and many “haven’t moved with the times.”One quipped: “Why this man’s carer let him make an unsupervised phone call needs looked into.”Others highlighted big and bulky gay men, such as rugby player Gareth Thomas.“If these riots have taught us anything, it’s that we have some seriously dense members of the public,” said someone on Instagram.
