Why? "It's offensive to snake lovers! You're implying there's something WRONG with snakes on a plane."
The PC brigade has decided that Jackson must be anti-gay because of a Tweet he made about Donald Trump and his ass-licking yes-men. Jackson implied that not only are the men around Trump a bunch of ass kissers, they're a bunch of cocksuckers, too.
A word or two about cocksucking. Some WOMEN don't like it. It's not just heterosexual men who wouldn't want to do it. Although some would do it to themselves if they could.
Just as some women would turn down a chance to blow Harvey Weinstein for a film role (or any other homely executive), some men wouldn't blow Donald Trump just to get rich, fame or power. As Seinfeld's catch-phrase goes, "there's nothing wrong with that" (being gay) but it's not for straights. So, to quote Seinfeld's pal Jason Alexander as George Costanza, making a remark about NOT wanting to suck cock..."is that a BAD thing? Should I not have done that??"
Zzzzz. What ARE we debating here? To quote the literary Mr. Samuel L. Jackson: GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP.
Let's turn this around slightly. Gay Pride parades. Gays are saying, in essence, they do NOT want to be straight. They would NOT want to be with the other sex. Does that make them sexist?
How about Black Pride parades. Is it possible that Samuel L. Jackson LIKES BEING BLACK, and if he had the chance, would not WANT to be white? And if he said, "No thanks, I would NOT want to be white," is that some kind of slur?
There are people in Ireland who say quite proudly that they are proud to be Irish and not English. And vice versa. There are Japanese people who are proud of their culture, and don't like to be mistaken for Korean or Chinese.
One of my good friends was gay. He died in that first wave of AIDS, before anyone even knew what it was. He worked, ironically enough, as a men's magazine editor. You might think this is strange (or QUEER) but a lot of heterosexuals would go BONKERS if they had to look at women sucking cock all day, or flashing their boobs and butts. He wasn't the only gay editor of a men's magazine that featured nude women. There were several women editing this type of magazine as well.
One day I was in his office and he asked me to help him pick out some slides for the centerfold. He had thought up a good header for the front cover: "You won't find a prettier vagina." The trouble was, he wasn't sure if the candidate had one. He laid down the chromes on a light table, and said, "Is that a pretty vagina?" And I said, "Yes, it is."
I also remember him quipping, a few months earlier or later, that he was not at all attracted to women and what they had between their legs "looks like an industrial accident."
Was that funny or was that horribly sexist? Perhaps if he said it while Hillary Clinton was running for office, and implying that this meant she couldn't possibly function, yes, that would be sexist. Otherwise, no. Funny or not, it was merely stating his own preference. And he wasn't saying it to a woman to make her feel bad.
Samuel L. Jackson's Tweet was obviously NOT aimed at hurting the feelings of gays. It was stating that guys around Trump would swallow their pride to make him happy. We all know how important SEX is. It would've been a bit ludicrous for Jackson to say, "Well, I bet all those men fawning over Donald Trump went out of their way to buy him a box of chocolates."
Can we say that the PC brigade sometimes gets its knickers in a twist over very little? That most people are happy that Samuel L. Jackson curses as much as he does even if SOME people are offended? (You can check the Internet and find games and sound bytes so you can have fun pressing buttons and hearing a bunch of his rude sentences and individual curse words). Can we suggest that if he made a movie that appealed mostly to a Black audience, that's OK? That it was OK that there was no character in "Snakes on a Plane" to recite a one minute disclaimer in mid-film saying that most snakes are not dangerous and there's no reason to automatically fear them?
We're getting to a point where we can't say or do anything. Most any joke a comedian tells is bound to offend somebody. That's the nature of comedy...it MAKES FUN of things. Billy Joel sang long ago about the "Shades of Gray." There are no rules. We must not look at Laurel and Hardy as an example of laughing at anorexia and fat shaming at the same time.
Without meaning offense, there are straight men who simply would not want to suck another man's cock even if it got them appointed to the Presidential cabinet. Call them homophobic, or call them honest. PS, there are, believe it or not, some gay men who don't like to suck cock either. I recall Tennessee Williams saying as much. "I do it for the partner," he said. He found it a duty more than a pleasure. But who knows, if he refused, a boyfriend would've said, "There, I knew it all along. You're homophobic!"
To which Mr. Williams could've said, "Go the fuck to sleep."
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