Our asshat nominees this time out included yet another out gay director who advises gay actors to stay in the closet (what, is this an epidemic or something?), a gay panic inspired flash game, a non-profit that's exporting American-style intolerance to a very receptive Romania, and two Republican lawmakers. Here are the voting results for this week's poll.
Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and David Vitter (R-LS) won in a landslide for their efforts last week to derail the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act by attaching an impossible to pass pro-concealed gun amendment to it. What clever asshats!
We'll be back with a new selection of Asshat Smackdown nominees in
Friday's Best Gay Week Ever column. Feel like nominating
anyone? Please share in the comments!
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on Wed, 2009-07-29 10:53.
Jon Cryer!
they all seemed worthy
they all seemed worthy candidates to the Asshat of the Week.
Roos' comments were very unfortunate, maybe due to them being so unexpected.
The Game
Simply because one of my religious co-workers keeps playing it next to me, and not only for the hunting part but also because he says it's his duty to wipe out "the dirty ones"
It's the most gross thing I've ever seen, and it has a much worse effect than everybody seems to think
Russell T. Davies
There are 10 nominations for Russell T. Davis in the pg. 1 comments for the "Torchwood"'s Russell T Davies Makes No Apologies article (and that's just those who explicitly stated him for nomination).
I second this, or eleventh
Sorry but this is too much
I recognize that i'm a little off on this site lately because i'm not a torchwood fan. I watched a bunch of episodes and even i enjoyed it, i find torchwood an average show, with some really good episodes (Hotel babylon) and some really bad.
I can perfectly understand that people get angry when i character they like is killed (with little sense as i read). And by the interview Russel is a man full of himself.
But come on, kill a gay (well, Ianto wasn't exactly gay as i remember) character don't make him an asshat. He killed before Owen and Toshiko (who was my favourite character), it's not like he only kill Ianto to upset fans. I think is a really bad decision kill so much main characters (even show who kill important characters used to kill supporting ones, Buffy was a good example of that), because people tends to lose interest if they think that their favourite character could be the next. But as i say, that don't make him an asshat
I'm not among those
I'm not among those campaigning for RTD to be asshat, because I think that section is far more deserving of the political types (the Tel Aviv gunman, for example). However, to clarify, it's not the death of Ianto that's would be what puts him in the running. It's his handling of the issue afterwards.
If he truly wanted to drop it, he could stop talking about it, but he continues to belittle the fans by propagating the ill-formed belief that the entire reaction is 9 hysterical heterosexual women waving gay pride flags that they know nothing about in reaction to Ianto's death, rather than a diverse group of fans, many of whom know what they're talking about and most of which have issue more with what we see as a poorly written ending to the series rather than the death of a gay character. I was definitely one of those (not fitting in the category of the "9") who watched through to part 5 because I was sure not that RTD'd bring Ianto back (I was willing to accept his death--Tosh was my favorite too, so I learned quickly that nobody was safe) but that he'd make it worthwhile, only to be disappointed by the plot holes and the direction in which Jack's character went. Even then, I'd be way over it by now if Davies didn't keep coming out and making statements which offend me as a fan. He's liking the attention, it's pretty obvious, or he'd stop trying to inflame people.
It's these comments that I think would earn him AotW, not the show itself, because one of 9 heterosexual women who know nothing about gay rights I am not, and I don't appreciate his belittling of everyone who disagrees with him in this way.