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- I WISH I ULD NCEL MATT DAMON. IT'S OUTRAGEO TO JOKE ABOUT HATEFUL GAY SLURS 2021.
- LAST MAN STANDG'S 'OFFENSIVE' GAY JOKE: THE UPROAR
- ARE GAY JOK EVER ACCEPTABLE?
- STILL LOTS OF GAY JOK
I WISH I ULD NCEL MATT DAMON. IT'S OUTRAGEO TO JOKE ABOUT HATEFUL GAY SLURS 2021.
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I have a few iends who have started makg the kd of jok about gay people.
All of them are eher gay or bisexual! So when I hear all of you makg jok about gay people, I know that’s not the same, but I feel weird bee I’d never make those jok, and I don’t want to lgh.
Then I saw her and a iend talkg downstairs (she uldn’t see me) and she was tellg her iend she liked me until she found out I was homophobic. The cisn to hire one of them, Shane Gillis, was roundly cricized after disparagg jok he’d ma at the expense of Asian and gay people quickly surfaced.
LAST MAN STANDG'S 'OFFENSIVE' GAY JOKE: THE UPROAR
Sce last week, when Universal bowed to prsure om Anrson Cooper and cut a gay joke om s trailer for The Dilemma, there's been a lot of talk about where the le is when to gay jok edy. As far as The Dilemma go, s [...] * offensive gay jokes *
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In our first study, we showed participants a mock Facebook profile belongg to eher a gay or a straight man who had posted a joke about gay people. Participants nsired the joke funnier, ls offensive and more acceptable if the poster was gay.
ARE GAY JOK EVER ACCEPTABLE?
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.
STILL LOTS OF 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.