It was a bitchy piece and it is homophobic because the intent was to undermine Pete as a gay man by the author and the website. 

Thanks for the perspective, but you really don’t think that a historically progressive magazine like The New Republic publishing an article that argues that because a gay politician came out relatively later in life than the current norm, he won’t be able to focus on his job because he’ll be too busy exploring his…

All of this.

Rich has mad an online living of criticizing people for not coming out quickly enough. None of the above is at all surprising.

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

This. It’s like if a black man wrote an essay about Obama and heavily implied he wasn’t a real black man because he never joined a gang or smoked crack. It’s literally criticizing the man for not embodying stereotypes.

Well this gay man found parts of the article to be quite homophobic. Calling a gay man “Mary” in an attempt to degrade and belittle him is pretty textbook homophobia.

who took 33 years to come out because he fretted how it might affect his career

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

I remember reading an article for new ideas for James Bond, this was about a decade ago, and among the usual ideas being thrown about (black James Bond, female, gay, etc) one of them was the idea that “James Bond” wasn’t an actual real person, but a code name given to certain 00 agents as a way to fool enemies and…

It’s literally a new character who just happens to have the same 00 number than Bond, who’s retired.

I have no problems with this. Carry on.

THATS RIGHT!!!!!!!! IT ALL STARTED WITH THE PRESIDENCY!!!! BUT WE TAKING ALL YOUR AMERICA NOW!!!! THE BLACKENING HAS STARTED!!!

Probably getting the massive amount of fire and smoke out of the way so folks can actually go see the movie once the Tiki-torch marchers get tired and go back to french-kissing mayonnaise jars.

Waiting for people to complain and...

You know 007 is a codename, right?

And that Bond has retired at the beginning of the movie but needs to come back to help the team, and the person who inherited the codename?

Oh you know that, but you’re bitching anyway?

Fuck off.

She isn’t playing James Bond. She’s a new character taking the codename of 007 after Bond retires, you sexist asshat.

Did you read the article? She’s playing a new character who’s inheriting the code name 007. She’s not playing James Bond himself.

Let’s just be thankful 007 isn’t a mermaid.

Looking forward to it.