Kids in the Hall star’s provocative advice to gay teens: ‘Grow a pair’
I got this from one of my friends on LJ. I have gotten permission from them to post it on here.
Gay and lesbian teenagers have had a lot of heavy messages to digest lately - from Dan Savage’s optimistic It Get Better Campaign to Rick Mercer’s recent rant that gay public officials need to step up and speak out.
Now, Canadian comedian Scott Thompson had added his fiery two cents to the discussion. His message: Forget efforts like It Gets Better. Instead, be ready to fight.
In a piece for Pridesource.com, Mr. Thompson was asked, “You’ve addressed bullying before, specifically how the It Gets Better campaign is basically a lie - it might not get better, you say. What would you tell bullied kids then?”
His answer: “Grow a pair. Here’s the thing: The world is not kind to us; it never really will be. The gay male is always going to be at the bottom. I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.
“But you have to fight back. So much of these bullying campaigns are part of the trend that we were just talking about - the recasting of gay men as eternal victims and it’s like, fight back! Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. He does that to you, here’s what you do: You ... punch him in the face....”
Yes, because punching someone in the face will always work *sarcasm* Yeah, let's hope that the kid isn't ganged up on and nearly beaten to death. I seriously cannot stand when one thinks one solution will work for everyone else. I'm not proud of what I had to resort to, but it didn't involve physically hurting someone (more like psychologically intimidating them)
Gay and lesbian teenagers have had a lot of heavy messages to digest lately - from Dan Savage’s optimistic It Get Better Campaign to Rick Mercer’s recent rant that gay public officials need to step up and speak out.
Now, Canadian comedian Scott Thompson had added his fiery two cents to the discussion. His message: Forget efforts like It Gets Better. Instead, be ready to fight.
In a piece for Pridesource.com, Mr. Thompson was asked, “You’ve addressed bullying before, specifically how the It Gets Better campaign is basically a lie - it might not get better, you say. What would you tell bullied kids then?”
His answer: “Grow a pair. Here’s the thing: The world is not kind to us; it never really will be. The gay male is always going to be at the bottom. I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.
“But you have to fight back. So much of these bullying campaigns are part of the trend that we were just talking about - the recasting of gay men as eternal victims and it’s like, fight back! Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. He does that to you, here’s what you do: You ... punch him in the face....”
Yes, because punching someone in the face will always work *sarcasm* Yeah, let's hope that the kid isn't ganged up on and nearly beaten to death. I seriously cannot stand when one thinks one solution will work for everyone else. I'm not proud of what I had to resort to, but it didn't involve physically hurting someone (more like psychologically intimidating them)