Whats odd is Tracy Morgan has always come across to me as effeminate. Have you ever seen his Brian Fellow’s Safari Planet? Whats Tracy going to do when his son does an impersonation of him?
I’ll never get these people- comics, athletes, actors, whoever- that say faggot and dike and other gay slurs then come out with an “I didn’t understand those words are hurtful” apologies. I would believe them perhaps if English wasn’t their first language and they’d only been here a short time or they’ve been in a coma for 40 years but :rolleyes: to everyone else.
From the apology article:
While I would dispute the “we all love humor” part (professional minorities, be they GLBT or black or Hispanic or blind Latvians) aren’t generally known for their ability to find levity- I think the notion of setting up meetings twixt Morgans and genuine bonafide captivity raised homos is ridiculous. My official response as a gay man is “Fuck you you fucking fuck. Tracy Morgan never had a lick of talent, pass the biscuits, please”.
I guess Tracy Morgan *wasn’t *one of the people who gave a thumbs up to that “Mini Warbler” video that went viral this week.
(For anyone who doesn’t feel like watching, it’s a very young boy dressed up as one of the gay characters on Glee and dancing along to a scene from the show.)
“If they can take a dick up the ass, they can take a joke”
That is hilarious.
So the dude who has a gay lisp says his son better not talk with one, or he’ll kill him? Wow.
I would point out that the quote is not, stickly speaking, ‘anti-gay’; it’s anti ‘stereotypical gay voice’.
If I had a gay son that lisped or a gay daughter that wore ill-fitting Dickie pants, I have a talk with them about the need to behave according to stereotypes.
I wouldn’t consider knifing one of them though.
I’m sorry to get all biblical on you, but “it’s what comes out of a man’s mouth that defiles him.” It isn’t that I’m offended so much as Tracy Morgan has just proved to me, in as conclusive a manner as possible, that he’s an asshole. And his apology doesn’t contain the phrase I really want to see, some variation on “I’m sorry that I’m enough of an asshole to talk about knifing my son and pass it off as a joke. I’m sorry that I’m enough of an asshole to make lame jokes about gay people.”
“I’m sorry that some people got offended.” doesn’t cut it with me. The only good thing that can come of this is another George Takai PSA…
Oh, dear Og, me too.
Edit: The “mini Warbler” is adorable!
You can’t joke about gays, because gay people have problems?
I think I mixed together Trace Atkins and Lori Morgan.
StG
No, I think the context is clear. The problem Morgan has with a “gay voice” is that gay people use it.
There’s a whole bunch of wrong here:
Gay people all talk a certain way.
People that talk a certain way are all gay.
You can become gay because you saw a gay person on TV.
Gay people can stop being gay if they want to.
It’s okay to pick on gay people.
It’s okay to kill gay people.
No. He’s a comedian, and his act is mostly him acting ludicrously. He didn’t call a press conference to tell the world his opinions, he was telling jokes.
It’s not that funny when gay people are killed or beaten for being gay, or driven to suicide, which is getting a lot of attention now. “Joking” about that kind of violence isn’t funny.
So maybe a joke would have been ok if it didn’t too accurately reflect the reality a lot of kids have to go through. Stabbing a child: height of humor.
If he had made a joke that wasn’t about violence, I’d not like and dislike him a lot, but I might be able to not let it bother me too terribly much. But this was too far.
I remember seeing that routine on his HBO special a week or two ago and just wincing. It got lots of laughs, though.
Your argument, then, is that as long as something is cast in the form of a joke, it cannot (or at least, should not) be offensive?
Everyone has a subject that hits to close to home for them. I understand if people think it isn’t funny. If we ban joking about anything that is a touchy subject for anyone, there won’t be anything left to joke about.
I didn’t say it wasn’t offensive. I said he wasn’t encouraging people to stab gay people.
Who said anything about a ban?
Kinda like how Michael Richards doesn’t really hate black people?
I’ve been a comedian. I did it for about six years. And I’m pretty liberal, and think that too many people get upset too easily about too many things. And I think that Tracy Morgan went too far.
You’re right. My mistake.