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He gives both gays and blacks a bad name. Talk about Queen Stepin Fetchit! Why didnt he just step on the damn thing and keep doing the weather?!
posted by Anonymous, at
2/25/2008 3:28 PM
so, by this logic, a lez weather reporter would've smashed the thing to death. Great. Good to know we've come a long way, baby.
posted by Emily K, at
2/25/2008 7:58 PM
No kiddin'! Get mad at those pesky exgay camps that teach you not to act so gay and then blast the guy who shows himself in true colors! Oh brother! Hmm. A lesbian would have at the very least gone to get her girlfriend to smash the thing.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/26/2008 2:35 AM
This is not a new story, its been around for several weeks, hardly noteworthy.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/26/2008 7:05 AM
A dyke would have ground it up and tossed it into her creatin/protein muscle building drink. Relax--just joking!!
posted by Anonymous, at
2/26/2008 9:15 AM
Yes it is pathetic. Any gay man who acts like a girlie boy is expressing inner shame and has sacrified his masculinity to it. He has a perfect right to behave as he wishes, but jeeez, does this guy even know that he has a penis?
posted by Anonymous, at
2/26/2008 11:35 AM
Chris L, your attitude is no different from the ex-gay cultists who tell gays to butch it up and find their masculinity. So what if the weatherman doesn't conform to heteronormative, patriarchal gender roles?
IMO, it's gay men who lash out at nellie gay men who need to deal with inner shame issues.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/27/2008 9:02 AM
ANON, thanks for the reply. Maybe you're right. I will consider these things.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/28/2008 2:30 PM
Yeah figures, there has to be faggots out there criticizing the dude just for being nelly, as if he's hurting anyone. Does that make you feel better, picking on effeminate gay men? Make you feel a little tougher, butcher... straighter?
And I'm talking about the people commenting, not Wayne. I've read enough of his writings to know he isn't hateful toward effeminate gay men and he obviously posted this because he simply thought it was funny.
So Chris, any gay man who acts girlie is expressing inner shame? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!?
I guess that means you hate women or find them shameful? I mean it would follow, wouldn't it? You see acting "girlie" as something inherently bad, wrong or degrading.
"He gives both gays and blacks a bad name."
Uh, maybe you shouldn't judge all gays or blacks based on one person's actions?!?
Lordy, we have such a long way to go.
posted by Anonymous, at
2/29/2008 7:15 PM
No, but what I meant was that some gay guys believe the lie that they "aren't real men", so they exhibit behavior that isn't natural to them. For your information, my ex-business partner was the most effeminate man you could ever meet, but it was who he was, it was natural, and I couldn't care less. I think the weatherman's behavior might not be naturally-occurring, just an affectation, and there is a huge difference.
Finally, it would be nice if you'd get off your politically correct soapbox and instead have a deep discussion about these sensitive issues, a discussion which is sadly often shut down by people like you who who become apoplectic and hysterical when you hear something you don't like. We badly need to communicate about these issues, and your self-indulgence of your hysteria and lack of ability to do so pisses me off.
posted by Anonymous, at
3/01/2008 2:21 PM
For all you people arguing about who is wrong for judging whom - realize that you are assuming that this man is gay based on the way he thinks.
