If a butch married lesbian was running for the Democratic nomination, Tucker Carlson would make exactly the same kind of comments. He's not hot for Pete. He thinks Pete is a joke.
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Everyone's all "Hur-hur Tucker's gay for Pete" over this clip and I'm sitting here all "Do you bitches not know that this is how homophobia works?" Straight bros reducing gay folks to innuendo doesn't mean they want to fuck them. It means they don't think they're fully people.https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1118305015452590081 …
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Folks don't think he's hot for Pete. They think he's an asshole and are accusing him of repressed man yearnings to get his goat.
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That's actually much, much worse.
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O.K. I bow to your superior knowledge. But if I ever see the fucker I'm gonna look him in the eye and say "yum".
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They are not mutually exclusive propositions, though.
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An excellent point. In light of that, I'd take what T&L said as pointing to how incredibly pervasive implying other men are queer as a negative is in male American culture.
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He’s so gross.
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Most of the reaction I've seen mirrors my own: Just, "what the fuck is wrong with this guy?"
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Tucker Carlson is clearly the neighbor in American Beauty. This isn’t a joke.
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A not insignificant amount of research suggest that homophobes are resisting and lashing out against their own unexplored attraction to members of their own gender. The bullying behavior enforces their own supposed masculinity.
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Everything about this is awful. Carlson's critics are using homophobic jokes to "shame" Carlson for himself making a homophobic statement. Who are the good guys here again?
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Correct. Alas for Mr. Carlson, his contempt is less than worthless. No accomplished gay person ala Mayor Pete is going to say "oh no, some talking head of limited talent doesn't like me." It's hilarious that TC thinks his opinion about anyone else actually matters to that person.
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Isn’t that what people are saying. Is anyone saying tucker actually wants to fuck Pete?
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People really have a problem thinking of what their words signal. Trying to use homophobia as a way to shit on homophobes doesn't help gay people.
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Oh, just like they do to women and people of color. *sigh*
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Have you not yet seen enough examples of straight bros who demeaned homosexuals and stood against any policy that would support their rights to be who they are, only to end up being found out that they themselves are homosexuals? If not, google Aaron Shock Coachella
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YES. He is just playing the stereotype of the "closet gay homophobe", a bigot trope.
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He makes my skin crawl
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Can't believe these snowflakes.
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Kathy Griffin does this all the time and gets a pass
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