Johnny Weir may be gay

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Now can the media please get over it already? Honestly commentators resorting to “ZOMG GAY!” jokes are pathetic and  unprofessional and really do feed into how gay men are treated and viewed.

We have Australian commentators for Channel 9, who brought us the joy of jokes about the closet. Oh and referring to one skater’s costume as “a bit of Brokeback Mountain.” Tee Hee. Then cracked a few more gay jokes about Johnny Weir (even in the nonpology! Stay classy!). Yes. He is wearing pink. Seriously, anyone would think they’d never seen the colour before!

And then we have Candian commentators for RDS, who brought us some even more joyful commentary.

Apparently Johnny Weir is a bad example. Why? Oh because they’ll think all boys who skate will ‘end up like him‘. What? Extremely talented? Oh – gay. Because being gay is such a bad thing and such a bad example. Oh, and he should pass a gender test. A gender test… Yeah didn’t we learn better than that from the hell we put Semenya through let alone that even the extremely dubious and questionable gender testing used in female sports loses whatever weak and ridiculous justification it had in male sports. Oh and they suggested Johnny Weird should compete in the women’s competition – because gay man = woman never gets old it seems.

“Do you think he lost points because of his costume and body language?” if he did then that is severely wrong and should be condemned unilaterally NOT mocked and made an object of humour!

And then we wonder why homophobia in sports is so endemic – to an extent that when the FA looked for footballers to appear in their anti-homophobia they found that no top footballers would go near the thing - being associated with teh gay, even to the extent of saying homophobia is wrong, is soooo horrible,

Honestly is it too much to ask for a bunch of grown men to act like they’re NOT snickering freaking 10 year olds. Seriously, grow up already.

Edited: Johnny Weir is not out to the media, as such it is not possible to assume he is gay, bi or straight - the way everyone was talking about him I thought he'd at least come out as gay considering how many people were assuming he was gay. Silly me. Which, if anything, enfuriates me more because people are ASSUMING he is gay based purely on his personality and presentation NOT on his identity. You cannot pick out a gay man based on the clothes they wear, damn it!