Word: homophobia
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What the Bad People misunderstand is that the gay-related humor I share with some of my close male heterosexual friends has far more to do with the enjoyment of a good joke than with homophobia. It goes without saying, of course, that we are “post-homophobic” (or—and here I must give credit to blockmate Jeremy Hartman—“PoHoMoPho”). Simply put, for me it is a given that the value my straight-boy friends place on me has fundamentally nothing to do with my being...
There are folks who would wonder why I, a gay boy, would find these episodes funny. They might be appalled at my blockmates’ homophobia, and they might speculate that I pathetically accept their sensibilities, including their sick, hateful sense of humor as the price to pay for their friendship. Some of my friends and I—we all rigorously adhere to an ethic of cultural relativism—call these people, “The Bad People.” They are on par with people who make conversation during television shows, hold opinions about Undergraduate Council...
...that’s the thread in post-hate humor, whether it’s post-homophobia, post-racism, post-anything-not-very-nice. So within post-homophobia, for instance, is the implicit assumption that the teller of the joke (and the audience, too) is not homophobic, which means the joke teller is free to trot out every formerly “offensive” stereotype or sentiment in the service of a good joke...
Last Thursday, while most students were at Stein Clubs and Senior Bar, the true hip-hop fans filled Science Center D to see and discuss Byron P. Hurt’s documentary “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” which analyzes manhood, sexism, homophobia and violence...
Byron Hurt, the director of the documentary “Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” urged a capacity crowd in the Science Center’s Lecture Hall D last night to confront the sexism, homophobia and “hyperaggression” that he said features prominently in today’s commercial hip-hop music. In the past year, Hurt’s film on hip-hop has made a tour of the film festival circuit and garnered national media attention. “This film is about hip-hop, but also about manhood, the construction...