How smart was Freddie

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May i say, WELCOME, Kevin Spacey.

But be forewarned, unwanted groping and grinding will not be tolerated

I think he was quite intelligent: Phoebe seems to think so and I've read several comments about Freddie's deep interest for opera, ballet, Japanese art... In my opinion, he started playing dumb in the interviews when he realised that the press didn't take him seriously.

Stick, i meant jrd1951 sorry:)

Mark_Glasgow, you have a good point about his reckless lifestyle. Sadly, he didn't make wise decisions in that department and let his feelings take over.

@Jack_Off if you think AIDS and cancer are similar illnesses then its not worth discussing with you

Unless of course its something like lung cancer which is normally caused by smoking so again, thats a personal decision and could be considered not very smart

So exactly at what point in history do you think Freddie should have known enough about the AIDS epidemic to change his behavior? And change his behavior to what exactly.

Do you think at that point he was likely to already have been infected?

Of course these same questions apply to millions of people, and not just gay men.

mark_glasgow in that time Freddie didn’t know how you could get aids so of course he just did what he wanted. If you take aids from that time it’s indeed quite the same as cancer because there was nothing that he could’ve done to stop it.

It's very difficult to say how someone is/was smart.
I even don't know about myself and how much I'm smart. LOL

Marl-Glasgow: Your in a city that is the Aids epidemic of the world at the moment so do not say i do not know the difference from Aids and cancer Your the one that suggested Freddie was careless so contracted Aids.

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my post, but what I meant was that it is indeed ridiculous to try to determine how smart he was given that none of us never met him. In short, I do agree with mooghead.

As for my being here, I've been on Queenzone for some 15 years. I read a lot and contribute little.

I don’t think that indulgence in perhaps knowingly self destructive behavior such as promiscuity is linked to a deficiency in intelligence
Freddie seemed very sharp even while making flippant remarks.

@AlbaNo1

Or as Robin Williams famously put it:
“The problem is, God gave man a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time.”