When do jokes go to far?
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Ok lets face it male figure skaters are not the most masculine then along comes skaters like Johnny Weir and well you get this
So out come the gay jokes. What is that saying if it skates walks like a duck, talks like a duck then its a duck. As you can imagine it was open season on Weir jokes. Well the Canadian press had a field day with it and it cost a few of them their jobs. Yahoo did a story on it and well I have to admit it did make for a funny read.
Weir "a bad example" and suggested he go through gender testing, like the runner Caster Semenya. After all, in no way is the latter a touchy subject.
When they were asked to apologize the only thing they apologized for was his bad outfits. They still continued to laugh about his masculinity and that he should have competed in women's figure skating.
So do you think they went to far or did his flamboyant almost ask if not beg to be talked about?
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There may be a line somewhere at sometime but I definitly don't think this is it, not even close.
I agree I mean when you dress like that you have to expect some sorta reaction. The outfits were funny and so were the jokes. On the same part he was representing the US so come on shouldn't someone have a say in the costumes and say heyyyyyyyyyy um lets tone this one down some. That way we are not made a joke of too.
well its good to know that a group of parents who preach tolerance for they're children on this wonderful site believe that heyyyyyyyyyy being gay is unamerican and simply intolerable for my obviously hetero child... if you think this was not crossing the line (which i dont either) then let the jokes fly, at him, and at you.
Ummmm at what point did I say being gay is unAmerican? I certainly don't think that at all. I happen to have some wonderful gay friends. I think his outfit was over the top - regardless if he is gay or hetro. I look at it this way at my office I have a pretty relaxed dress code but there are times that an employee or two might come in wearing something really not appropriate being that they represent my company - I tell them to go change. The skaters have a open dress code but in the end they are representing our country and should remember that - gay or not.
That dude is a ghey as the day is long. I'd keep my arse to the wall if he were in the room with me, but I'll tell ya what .. if my girl was a skater HE's the guy i'd want to be her partner. No worries there if her crotch ends up in his face as seems to happen all too often in that kind of thing 
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Comedy is meant to test people's tolerance for things. There may be a line somewhere at sometime but I definitly don't think this is it, not even close. Sorry queermo, deal with it and move on