Jodie Foster

Is trying to have a conversation with Drip smarter, dumber, or equally as dumb to running headfirst into a brick wall? (cue MC with a Gus Frerotte picture)

 

Conversations with Drip:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5qJAI9BIc

 

Its ridiculous that people actually think that being gay is "cool."

I've been around nearly 50 yrs now; I've seen kids ridiculed on the playground for being "gay"; people harassed and tormented in the workplace for being "gay"; and read heart-breaking stories of homosexuals who are persecuted, beaten, tortured, and who commit suicide because of their sexual orientation.

There are homosexuals in my family, being gay is not a chosen lifestyle; they did not do "it" to themselves. And they certainly did not do it because its "cool".

People want the prominent ones to stay out of the limelight, that way they can treat homosexuals as this nice tidy subset that's insignificant, so insignificant that the subset can be ridiculed and no one will care.

Why should people "come out"? Because the more prominent people that come out, the more mainstream it becomes and the sooner reality sets in that homosexuals are not some leper group, but a true cross-section of life; there are homosexuals in EVERY group, world leaders, entertainment leaders, titans of industry, athletic champions.

 

This thread has gone full-derp.

 

Is that what you believe?

 

Son, we appreciate you coming to us for council. Ruffians such as habitual offender Boom_70 could learn something from this. It's not ironic because the two occurrences are unrelated. Speaking generally, irony is when one thing leads to something exactly counter to what would be expected. Drip saying something dumb is not ironic.

 

I'm with those who're baffled that this is being characterized as a "coming out" speech. If anything, she took a several jabs at the idea of "coming out" in a press release when you've been living honestly about who you love for 30+ years in your personal life. She wanted to thank her former partner and the co-parent of her children, a person she'd never really spotlighted in her many awards speeches to my recollection. It was no more the point of what she said than the parts about her mom or her kids or Mel Gibson were, except that it seemed honest in ways I don't expect when watching these shows.

It makes me curious what she'll do next, more than anything else. She's an incredibly talented actor, but I haven't seen enough of her behind-the-camera work to really figure out what I think of her as a director (I did not see her Mel Gibson movie about the handpuppet, but I kind of want to now more than I did before).

Whatever she was doing, I'm very glad I watched it, and I can't remember the last time I felt that away about one of these speeches.

 

So would Drip saying something intelligent be ironic?

 

He'd be called Man in Blue

 

Son, we are trained officers of the irony law. We don't consider ludicrous hypotheticals.

 

There's not a damn thing wrong with not agreeing with the gay lifestyle or her coming out at an awards show. You're pissed because I don't embrace that lifestyle? Tough. I respect her right to live life the way that she wants to but that doesn't mean that I have to go along with it or the way that she came out at the show.
And for the record, like many along here, I have gay family members and extremely close friends. I don't look at them as gay. They don't look at me as straight. We're human beings just trying to make it from day to day.

 

Is Jodie Foster one of your gay "extremely close friends"?