people are assholes

[hurinhouse]

I realize this is about far more than just matt, but the issues of intolerance and inequality disgust me and this article makes me angry and sad.

http://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/2016/5/19/are-closeted-actors-selfish

Comments

[sheenianni]

I was at a Prague Book festival last Friday, and there were some free sci-fi&fantasy journals that I don't usually buy. I though, what the heck, let's check it out, maybe they're interesting. The journal wasn't anything special, but it was okay... up until almost the last page. There was a short list of gay Hollywood actors, aka "Five *** idols of girls and women". Apparently, Neil Patrick Harris is a "pathological fucker"; Wentworth Miller would enjoy being in prison IRL because all gay men would love some prison rape; Matt is "girly" and "it's crazy how many ***s must live here on Earth, otherwise he could have never been on the pages of Vogue and Elle"... and let's not go into what they wrote about Richard Chamberlain. Suffice to say, won't be buying this crap anytime in the next century or ten.

Still, in a world where homophobia is even now a very real and very painful problem, the fact that anyone can blame the actors for not coming out is honestly beyond me.

[hurinhouse]

wtf... and this was published?

[sheenianni]

Sadly, yes.
The journal isn't all that popular (google says it was actually calcelled for two months or so in 2013, before a new owner bought it). Also, it was published in this new "controversy column" (started in January), which, from what I understand, is supposed to be "funny", but in reality is filled with all kinds of vile crap, tageting anyone and everyone. It's also apparently been protested by a lot of readers, so hopefully they'll cancel it eventually... but the fact alone that this can still get published (even in a small journal) is pretty terrible, especially given that these sorts of periodics are often read by teenagers.
Lovely stuff :/

[hurinhouse]

Unfortunately, unless those readers boycott altogether, it'll keep happening. Ugh, and this is just one example.

[sheenianni]

True, but given that this is one of the two Czech sci-fi/fantasy journals (or at least I haven't heard of any others), I don't see enough people boycotting it to make the editors stop :(