Anti gay jokes
'Homophobic' jokes about Trump and Putin criticised by LGBT campaigners
Mocking Trump and Putin by suggesting they are gay is a "damaging trend" which needs to stop, LGBT campaigners have said.
The New York Times was criticised this week after it tweeted a cartoon depicting the US and Russian presidents on a date with one another.
It was posted ahead of their meeting in Helsinki on Monday.
Commentators said they were tired of homosexuality being used to mock Trump.
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Tracy Morgan apologises for anti-gay jokes
Comedian and 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan has apologised for making a series of anti-gay remarks, including a reported joke that he would stab his own son to death if he spoke in a "gay voice".
Morgan's apology followed criticism of his stand-up act in Nashville last week, in which he was also quoted as having taken gays to task for "whining about something as insignificant as bullying."
"I yearn to apologise to my fans and the homosexual and lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville," Morgan said in a statement.
"I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends grasp what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context," he added.
Morgan's remarks at the June 3 Nashville performance were reported by the the gay campaign group Revelation Wins Out, and other members of the audience.
Morgan, 42, who has three children, also claimed that being gay is a choice and something that kids learn from the media, according to th
Study Confirms Men Who Craft Sexist and Anti-Gay Jokes Feel Insecure About their Masculinity
Q: Why haven’t any women ever gone to the moon?
A: It doesn’t need cleaning yet!
Do you find that amusing? According to a newly published study, men who roar at sexist and anti-gay jokes are mostly doing so because they are deeply insecure about their own manhood.
Laughing at such jokes helps them defend, restore or reaffirm their masculinity.
“Women and gay men symbolize femininity, the antithesis of masculinity. Thus, by expressing disdain or prejudice against women and queer men, men higher in precarious manhood beliefs can distance themselves from the traits they want to disconfirm in themselves”, writes a research team led by Western Carolina University psychologist Emma O’Connor.
People initiate and enjoy disparagement humor more when they perceive their social identity is being threatened. Interestingly, masculinity threat is unique to the sexist and anti-gay jokes; it did not emerge for anti-Muslim and neutral jokes.
The study, conducted at Western Carolina University, used a two-pronged experiment involving 387 heterosexual men. After providing informed approval, they comple
I wish I could cancel Matt Damon. It's outrageous to joke about hateful gay slurs in 2021.
If I had the unilateral authority to “cancel” people – anointing them pariahs that are banished to the dustbin of popular identity – my list would contain the usual suspects: Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Kevin McCarthy and Sarah Huckabee Sanders. As of Sunday, I’d add another designate to that list: Matt Damon.
On a promotional tour hawking his new movie “Stillwater,” Damon sat down with the Sunday Times of London for a wide-ranging interview. The interview first came to my attention in a series of tweets that alleged Damon had admitted referring to gay men using a homophobic slur.
In an age when people manipulate reality by taking comments out of context or making them up out of whole cloth, I was skeptical. Before sharpening the guillotine, I wanted to make sure another public figure was not being canceled for no legitimate reason.
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I tracked down the Sunday Times piece and clicked on it, expecting to detect a reasonable explanation – like a character played by Damon, not Damon the man, had used the slur. After hitting a paywall, and subscribing to a free mont
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