I think Bazzers pulling scrumpy's leg but forgot the emoji.
Diasi,
Well good on you for taking it in good part,
I hadn't noticed the imoji, but even had I, I would have thought the comment tasteless. As you don't mind, there's no spilt milk, as they used to say.
From my understanding, I took it wrongly, perhaps, having just read this paragraph in an article:
"There were no gay kids or teachers in my school. Of course, there were – statistically speaking there were lots of them – but everyone had to keep up appearances in order to appease those grey-suited ‘family values’ politicians who, at the time, seemed to be ubiquitous. (Though, as we gleaned from the newspapers that our parents read, it was those given to moralizing about sex that you had to watch out for)."
The trope of the last sentence being important, as it conjures up the image of the big tough working class bloke who beats up gays for fun when he himself is gay. The sort of trope regularly shown on MSM like the BBC, and a trope that others buy into too.