# Talk me down -- Brad Pitt hypocrisy? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 24, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-down-brad-pitt-hypocrisy/507500 "2009-08-24T14:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-down-brad-pitt-hypocrisy/507500/41 "2009-08-29T02:01:17Z")
Sometimes a joke is just a joke. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-down-brad-pitt-hypocrisy/507500/42 "2009-08-29T02:29:42Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I guess I’m not mad, but seventh graders also call things they are deriding “gay”. Would that be OK? Not really. I think it’s OK. It’s a word. Words can have different meanings depending on context. In some contexts “Gay” means “Homosexual”. I others it means “Lame” or “Crap”. Originally it meant “Bright and colourful and happy”. Certain minority groups don’t have a monopoly on the language, and personally I think there’s an element of thoughtcrime in objecting to the use of the word “gay” to deride things. As for Messrs. Pitt, Clooney, and Damon- I think it’s a funny “in-joke” and is intended to be read in that context. They’re all obviously good mates and mates joke about that sort of thing all the time. It’s refreshing to see respected actors having a laugh at themselves about their public perceptions, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-down-brad-pitt-hypocrisy/507500/43 "2009-08-29T06:24:03Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Sometimes a joke is just a joke. Seriously. It may not be all that PC or culturally sensitive, but one of the strongest indicators of being a confident heterosexual man is that you can joke among friends about being gay. I can see, however, that taken out of the joking among friends context (as in an interview) it becomes a little more difficult to swallow. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-down-brad-pitt-hypocrisy/507500/44 "2009-08-29T06:45:38Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > Well…it’s not, really. Only the best or most stubborn of marriages last til death do them part. And if he told Jolie that and she still wanted to let him adopt her kids and have kids with them? I fail to see what business it is of ours. So your feeling is that he told her that at the beginning and she signed on…? I deeply doubt that. For so many reasons. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2009, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-down-brad-pitt-hypocrisy/507500/45 "2009-08-29T12:58:44Z")
It’s just a guy busting on a buddy of his. Not everything in the world is _deep_, kids. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/talk-me-down-brad-pitt-hypocrisy/507500.md?page=2)