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50 Cent and his 'Anti-gay' suicide comment.

Posted 19 months ago|7 comments|1,011 views
50 Cent Anti-gay
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CrbBob
Costa Rica
50 Cent and his 'Anti-gay' suicide comment

Author: Bob Draper
Website: www.insured411.com
Date: 10/08/2010
Last week 50 Cent tweeted: "If you [are] a man and your over 25 and you don't eat pu**y just kill yourself damn it. The world will be a better place."
Of course, he later recanted and saying it was joke, here are his comments about the tweet.

"The other night I made a joke about a b**w job. My male followers enjoyed it. So I then went on to joke about women receiving the same."
"Somehow they turned a simple joke about oral sex into an anti-gay statement. I have nothing against people who choose an alternative lifestyle, in fact I've publicly stated my mum loved women.
"It's funny how people think negative statements are newsworthy but positive statements are not worthy of coverage."

Sorry Mr. Cents, what ever your publicist wrote won't cover what you started. I really don't think you could use such big words, with out putting a curse word in a sentence.
Don't get me wrong 50, as I like a some of your music, but not all. You're very wrong here and you need to make a public apology to not just gay people but to all people. I'm sure if the shoe was on the other foot, " All straight men who don't s*** d*** should just kill yourself." I don't think you would like that very much.

What if people stopped buying your music because of this little twitt? I'm sure you would blame it on the "Gay People" Instead of blaming it on yourself 50. Stand up and be a man and make an apology to the gay community or I have a feeling your music career may suffer more than you think.

50, I'm going share a little story with you. I used to homophobic just like you. This changed about 20 years ago one night while a was working in a restaurant as a cook. The manager and I were always the last people to close the place every night. He was gay and I hated him. As he would always say gay things, like when he his hands were full with an order for a table and someone would be in his way. His normal quote was: "Behind you, scary thought isn't it?" said with a Ru Paul like voice. I used to cringe and just shake when I ever I heard this.
Then one night after he and were alone as usual, I was just finishing cleaning up the kitchen, as he walked in and said hey, sit down and have a glass of wine with me. I'm thinking "Look buddy I'm straighter then arrow pointing to free money!" But I said OK, after all it was free booze and if he tried anything I would just get up and knock him out. We sat down at a table he poured the wine and we started talking. He was doing most of the talking, it was about his life where he came from, his family, what he did in high school and so on. Not once during our ½ hour conversation did the word gay come out.
As I was leaving and getting into my car I stopped and I released something from this night, gay people are no different then anyone else, why in the hell am I homophobic, just because someone has a different sexual orientation then I do, does not mean I must fear them. It means I must embrace their thoughts and feelings or I might just miss something in life by avoiding people that have different thoughts then I.

The manager and I became good buddies after that night and during the course of our friendship the word Gay never came out or did he ever make any sexual advances towards me. Kinda made me mad, " What I'm not good looking enough for you to hit on? "

50, I would suggest you do the same, spend some time with someone who has a alternative lifestyle, I mean quality time, hang out, catch a movie, go to a sporting event. Just do it 50, and I'm sure your views will change.


Would like to send a shout out to that Manager that changed my veiws that night at Rose City Diner.
"Thanks Scott! you opened my eyes"
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19 months ago: I'm glad you could tell that story of your friend in the diner. It's always strange to me how homophobic people think gays will do something to them. Gay people don't go around worrying about straight people doing anything to them, except maybe physical assault. But, if you turn the tables on how straight folks worry, it's kind of funny.

Most people, gay or straight, have defense mechanisms, such as humor. Your friend commenting was probably just a way to deflect.

When someone crosses the line it is an issue of boundaries, not orientation. As w/most things it's easy to say 'they're all like that' rather than use intellect.

As for 50. Homophobia tends to run deeper in black communities. Not that I excuse him at all. I like some of his songs. If he said this after the Rutger's suicide then it's even more disrespectful.
CrbBob
CrbBob
Costa Rica
19 months ago:
When someone crosses the line it is an issue of boundaries, not orientation. As w/most things it's easy to say 'they're all like that' rather than use intellect.

I think you put the hit it right on the head, with this comment.
Just wish more people would wake up.
By the way, I was one of those black communities members that had homophobia, untill my encounter.

thanks for the comment.
Out Of The Box
Out Of The Box
 Moderator
19 months ago: I honestly don't see how what he said was anti-gay. Crude, and socially unacceptable, yes. But anti-gay, nah.
19 months ago: oh listen u guys.. SO WOT?? the man CAN SAY WHATEVER HE LIKES.. its a free world isnt it? get a blasted LIFE will ya all!! Down here in Australia we all love him.. we think he is sooooooooooooooo cool! WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH!! and..whoever that turkey is posting all that crap about his GAY boss.. HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DOH! so? thats you stuff mate, its irrelevant, some people JUST LIKE TO HEAR THE SOUND OF THEIR OWN VOICES.. delete it will ya! boh!
19 months ago: Redback, I am sure you could be a very interesting person. Do you plan to write? Balance, all sides of the story IS freedom of speech and media.
alliholic94
alliholic94
Chapel Hill, NC
19 months ago: Yeah, I don't think he was referring to gay people with that comment. It sounded to me like he was scorning grown men who refuse to give women the same treatment they demand for themselves. Did that make any sense? Sorry, I didn't want to use the crude terms. :P
soulreaver
soulreaver
Los Angeles, CA
18 months ago: Gay, Gay, Gay! Me and my childhood "Gay" friend have a saying in spanish "sufre el que quiere!' Which means "he suffers because he wants to!" Whether your Gay, Straight, or Bi- we all are bound by the same universal rules like -you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs! If you don't have a sense of humor about the tragedies of life well... I just can't imagine a "sane" person wanting to be around such an insufferable man/woman.

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