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'GAY ATH': THEY SAY 30 IS THE NEW 25
This weekend I turn 25 and, as a paid-up member of the homosexual muny, that means I am periloly close to wnsg my own funeral. "Gay ath", as is termed, is the unfairly early age at which gay men are no longer emed to be fun, attractive or valuable by their youthful peers. If, as I am reliably rmed, 30 is the new 25 when to gay ath, then surely 25 is at the very least "gay retirement".
This whole c theory is, of urse, advanced by bter old gays who venture that the world pretty much end at 30. But 's not whout a gra of tth: we're all aware that our unblemished 20-somethg sk nnot last forever, and that at some pot the gymnasium morphs om optnal vany project to tragic, gay ath cuts to the fear of ageg that fters somewhere all of . When a gay man turns 30, 's known as Gay my god, next week is Gay Death for me!
”— The Gay Science §125In the setup of this aphorism there is somethg that should immediately jar wh an attempt to read this passage a Mornist light. By the time of wrg The Gay Science 1882, Nietzsche has progrsed beyond his earlier adulatn of the scientific worldview. A few years after The Gay Science and his claratn of God’s ath, Nietzsche tak aim at the place of science his book The Genealogy of the third say of the Genealogy, he is explorg the topic of the “ascetic ial”.
GAY DEATH
” — The Gay Science §125Lookg around him the age of Morny, Nietzsche se that this worry hasn’t really dawned on his ntemporari and he nclus that:“Lightng and thunr require time; the light of the stars requir time; eds, though done, still require time to be seen and heard. ’”— The Gay Science §343.