Wheaton admits he was influenced by homophobic jokes in one of the most famous standup routines of all time: 'All of it was cruel. All of it was bigoted. All of it was punching down. And I didn’t know any better' (via toofab)
"All of it was cruel. All of it was bigoted. All of it was punching down. And I didn’t know any better," wrote Wheaton."I accepted the framing, I developed a view of gay men as predatory, somehow less than straight men, absolutely worthy of mockery and contempt. Always good for a joke, though."
"Let me put this another way," Wheaton continued."A comedian who I thought was one of the funniest people on the planet totally normalized making a mockery of gay people, and because I was a privileged white kid, raised by privileged white parents, there was nobody around me to challenge that perception. For much of my teen years, I was embarrassingly homophobic, and it all started with that comedy special.
That manifested in a story Wheaton shared about a time he met a group of guys on the hockey rink and enjoyed a great time with them. Afterward, in the locker room, in an attempt to be one of the guys, he dropped the f-word on them -- only to find out that every single one of them was gay.
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