I know! What kind of country have we become when being openly homophobic just results in a bunch of people calling you a homophobe rather than patiently understanding that you just want to look concerned to cover your homophobia?

Let's imagine that you're in a locker room with a gay guy. He thinks you're attractive but he knows you're not gay. He will not hit on you, look at you, or make any advances towards you because gay guys want other gay guys. Being gay is not contagious.

I am PRO internet-trolling of bigot assholes. And yes, his "freedom of speech" deserves every consequence it gets.

If they're not ready for him, seems to me like that should be their problem, not his.

Show me one MRA blog or website that isn't full of psychos. There are tons of feminist websites that are evenhanded and fair, and demand that all people regardless of gender be treated equally.

Try caregiving for a loved one (at the age of 24 - it's so fun!!) who also has dementia, cancer & Parkinson's & then come & lecture me on 'throwing them in a home.' This BS stigma about a loved one in a home is truly the worst. Perhaps take it case by case instead of a massive generalization.

Hey wait, shouldn't the snorer get kicked out of bed, rather than the victim?

Ur doin it rong.

Does another human's nutrition depend on your ability to be able to pee into a jar? That's fascinating, can you tell me more about that?

Pissing in a jar is equivalent to feeding one's baby in your world?

Because people who are marginalized don't have the privilege of not having to worry about whether the insults that are thrown at them have to do with their sex/gender/race/disability/religion/etc

There's no "getting past" racial, gender, religious, and sexual orientation issues so long as those issues exist. You can't just ignore them and hope they go away. The only way to go about fighting them is to speak up when it's obvious someone's being racist/sexist/whateverreligiousist/etc. Calling a black guy a thug…

Honestly, you know what this reminds me of? When the US woman's soccer team and one of the players tore off her shirt and ran ecstatically across the field in her sports bra. For fucking WEEKS the story wasn't about a team of top athletes achieving a pinnacle of their profession, it was about how "inappropriate" that…

Very well-said. Plus, anyone claiming she was "terrified" is just divorced from reality. They should all be forced to watch the tape again. She did not look one bit terrified. A teensy bit surprised is the most I see.

People called him a nigger. Because of his race. The media pointed out that racism.

It also doesn't help that he was clearly directing his words at the camera, not Andrews, she's not projecting fearful body language at all, and lastly, she must be pretty tall because she doesn't seem that much shorter than him. It's not like he was even looming over a tiny girl!

I don't know if you're speaking about this particularly controversy but the media didn't make it one of those things. People were racist. Some overtly, others also overtly but thinking they were sly. They weren't just assholes. They were racist assholes.

because people weren't calling him an asshole, they were calling him a nigger.

Yes, people were pretty quick to assume Erin Andrews was terrified, as if a woman who is easily scared of men shouting into the camera would have chosen broadcast sports reporting of all things....

In order to be tolerant, one needs to become intolerant of intolerance.

Actually, contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as a stupid opinion. The people highlighted in this article hold a stupid opinion, and it's not slanderous to call them stupid (calling someone stupid, for any reason, isn't slanderous).