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Why do some men crack sexist and anti-gay jok or fd them funny, while others do not? Acrdg to a new study, such disparagg jok are a way for some men to reaffirm their shaky sense of self, pecially when they feel their masculy is beg threatened. Intertgly, such suatns men do not revert to ntral jok or on ntag anti-Mlim sentiments, ments the thor." id="metasummary

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I WISH I ULD NCEL MATT DAMON. IT'S OUTRAGEO TO JOKE ABOUT HATEFUL GAY SLURS 2021.

* anti gay jokes *

In Friends, when Ross assumed a male nanny had to be gay, simply bee he was openly emotnal and had a job a female-domated dtry. When Zach thought was somehow gay to exprs his emotns and his iendship wh other men Gilmore Girls.

And siarly, when Le thought was awfully gay for Kirk to be rryg his girliend's handbag around Stars Hollow. In Will and Grace when Jack mt work wh a lbian uple on a dramatisatn for Will's gay sensivy semar, and he n't help but mock them at every opportuny. Raj and Howard's iendship on The Big Bang Theory is equently mocked for beg "gay".

SEXIST AND ANTI-GAY JOK: IT'S ALL ABOUT MEN FEELG THREATENED

In The Wt Wg, Abigail Bartlet was *totally fe* wh gay people, but was also relieved when her dghter turned out to be straight. The terview first me to my attentn a seri of tweets that alleged Damon had admted referrg to gay men g a homophobic an age when people manipulate realy by takg ments out of ntext or makg them up out of whole cloth, I was skeptil. What I read was even worse than what the Twter mob had revealed s 140-character the past few months, while eatg a meal wh his fay, Damon ma a joke and referred to a gay man as a “f-----.

She went to her room and wrote what he lled a “treatise” on why ’s wrong to e that word to refer to gays. ”Two flags tell the story:Even small towns are creasgly welg to LGBTQ people like meSo we’re clear, the "f-slur" is a hateful term ed by people to mean gay men.

It is equently nnected wh the threat of vlence – like when a bunch of thugs thump baseball bats on the si of their tck and scream  as they drive by a gay man.

ANTI-GAY JOK

Opns your box:Get the bt sights and analysis livered to your boxWhat mak Damon’s latent homophobia so much worse than jt g a gay slur is his apparent belief that revealg to a newspaper would not be a problem for eher his reer or the movie he is promotg. The not so subtle subtext is that the public will not give a damn that he ed a homophobic slur to refer to gays.

Anti-gay slurs should be tabooI have to wonr whether Damon would have been as fortable nfsg that he the “N-word” when makg jok about Ain Amerins.

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And there are well-documented s of vilently anti-gay statements om celebri like Mel Gibson, 50 Cent, Blake Shelton and Joy Reid – an MSNBC mentator who was recently given her own the thor of the lumn which Damon’s terview appears, Jonathan Dean, reunts the offensive admissn but wraps a puff piece that pats Damon as an artist-hero on a missn to save Amerin cema … while drsed “down a T-shirt and open shirt. ” For God’s sake, a big celebry jt admted that he ed a homophobic slur to refer to gay men and the thor is more terted Damon’s fashn choic than askg him how he thks that’s Schultz:'To affirm bigotry is to grow :' Fears, memori and hop for the future durg Pri MonthNone of this is OK. It’s tough disverg that someone we thk is an ally is actually part of the problem that mak our liv ls long as anti-gay smears are met wh anythg ls than nmnatn and ser repercsns, as a untry we will ntue to send the msage that is fe to treat members of the LGBT muny as unservg of the same rpect and equaly as everyone headle that preces Damon’s terview asks the qutn: Is Hollywood “A-lister” Matt Damon “one of a dyg breed?

SEXIST AND ANTI-GAY JOK: IT'S ALL ABOUT MEN FEELG THREATENED

Why do some men crack sexist and anti-gay jok or fd them funny, while others do not?

To unrstand how this plays out the ntext of sexist and anti-gay jok, the rearch team nducted two experiments volvg 387 heterosexual men. Participants pleted onle qutnnair signed to tt their social attus and personali, and their prejudice levels and antagonism agast gay men and women.

The fdgs suggt that sexist and anti-gay jok provi self-affirmatn to men who posss more prer manhood beliefs. "Men higher prer manhood beliefs exprsed amement wh sexist and anti-gay humour rponse to a masculy threat bee they believe reaffirms an accurate, more mascule imprsn of them. It appears that by showg amement wh sexist and anti-gay humour, such men n distance themselv om the tras they want to disnfirm, " explas O'Connor.

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The rearchers hope the fdgs will help create a better unrstandg about the kds of suatns which sexist and anti-gay jok occur, and ultimately prevent this om beg ed, for stance, the workplace. Or asks whether ’s her ‘time of the month’ if she’s men - well, they’re many thgs - but acrdg to a new study, men who make sexist jok are probably jt secure about their news that will e as ltle surprise to many, science has proven that men who e sexist and anti-gay humour do so to reaffirm their own sense of self, particularly when they feel their masculy is beg threatened.

The participants pleted onle tts to reveal their personali, social attus and prejudice levels agast women and gay the qutnnaire, the men were asked how much they agreed wh var statements such as “Women seek to ga power by gettg ntrol over men” and “Once a woman gets a man to m to her, she ually tri to put him on a tight leash. ”The men’s preferred type of humour was then also ciphered, as well as whether they thought their humour would help others form a more accurate imprsn of rults of the study suggt that men who hold more prer manhood beliefs - particularly when they feel their masculy as fed by typil genr norms is beg challenged - are more likely to e sexist and anti-gay jok to provi self-affirmatn.

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Google marks Internatnal Women's Day wh 13 amazg womenShow all 13“Men higher prer manhood beliefs exprsed amement wh sexist and anti-gay humour rponse to a masculy threat bee they believe reaffirms an accurate, more mascule imprsn of them, ” lead study thor Emma O’Connor explaed.

“It appears that by showg amement wh sexist and anti-gay humour, such men n distance themselv om the tras they want to disnfirm, ” she rearchers hope that the fdgs of the study will help prevent such humour occurrg, particularly the workplace.

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