..they didn’t save this garbage for Guys Night Out on Wednesday. Free beer and tits!!! It really is sad.

So sophmoric it was ridiculous.

Isn’t this par for the course with this organization? That joke MIGHT have passed muster back when McHale became head of the FO (i’m sure the bit wasn’t his idea, but if he’s still around, I gotta figure that the guys who are coming up with in game bits have been around at least as long. Or do you suppose it was: “We made a lot of homophobic jokes in the locker room during the 86 season, so let’s bring that back too!”

Anyway, I’m assuming we’ll get the “Turkey-lurkey-dee” song on Wednesday and perhaps Saturday nights. I always enjoyed that one.

Now a Network-parody ad campaign is something that might fly.

About the gay joke:
Does gay also account for people who are bisexual? We use the word “holebi” for the whole group here, HOmoseksual, LEsbian, BIsexual, just gonna use “gay”, but I mean the whole group.

While I’ve always been very outspoken about respecting gay people, up to the point where a friend came up to me and couldn’t contain his curiousity and just asked if I myself was gay (which I’m not), I do believe that you have to develop some kind of a shield against humor. Hans Teeuwen said it best in this little bit, I’ve linked it before but for the ones who haven’t seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knRLJp-nqSg

That said, it’s a fine line between what’s hurtfull and what is ok. It’s a very subjective matter. It’s already been mentioned in the previous topic, how far do you respect someone who does inrespectful things. Are you inrespectfull if you don’t respect someone who isnt? No easy answer to that.

On this particular matter, it’s easy to see there really was no need to use something gay here. I understand the thing with Pamela Anderson going to David Hasselhof and what the link is. 9 chances out of 10 they didn’t really think it would offend anyone. I understand where they’re coming from though, obviously, there are plenty of other women they could have used to link to something else for the Celtics dude.

You could even argue that there’s objectification of the woman in this commercial and that it is equally offensive as the gay joke thing.

So while I really am a supporter of equal rights for minority groups like the holebi community and feminism (am actually trying to date a girl who’s a quite outspoken feminist), also see my website: http://users.telenet.be/wolvenclaw/sxe/site/en/ideology.htm ; the shorter url will be up sometime in the future), I do think that in humor, especially humor that is funny, a lot goes, there is a border but we have to safeguard that we don’t get overly protective either, everyone is a potential target so everyone should be able to take a hit here and there, the advice I’d give the wolves is: be creative, don’t pick on the same groups over and over.

About planting:
Since I’ve just mentioned Hans Teeuwen, I’ve seen some of his shows on tape and it’s obvious: if you go sit in the front row with this guy, you’re bound to get involved in the show somehow. That’s something that works for all stand up comedians, you just don’t sit in the front row if you don’t want to get picked on.
On a basketball game, I figure it doesn’t work this way. You pay good money to see a game up close, not to have a chance of interacting with Crunch during halftime. So what I’m trying to say is, the alternative of planting is using actual fans, I can really imagine some people not liking to be made fun of when having paid good more for tickets so I’m glad they leave the actual fans out of it…

About the cheerleaders and sexy-is-everywhere:
While I’m definitly not a prude and have been yea-I’ve-got-porn-and-am-not-ashamed-about-it" since I was about 15-16 I do think the line has been crossed. Where’s the intimicy, where’s the naughtyness and the secrecy. Enough is enough, it’s not because I’m ashamed or because I think it’s not “proper gentlemens conduct” or something like that, but I really don’t need to have sex in my face the whole time. You can’t long for something if it’s out there all the time.

I do believe cheerleading can be a good thing. There’s nothing wrong with beautifull women keeping the spirit of a crowd going by performing spirited dancing or acrobatics. Just make the sexy part suggestive instead of in-the-face, make it about the dancing and acrobatics in the first place, about the girls only second.

Blame it on the local traditional sports media, none of whom ever saw fit to comment when the Gopher’s Zach Puchtel came out of the closet.

and appreciate that this sort of thing comes up in the blog for people to have an actual conversation about it without a bunch of people complaining about no one being able to take a joke. that bit had no place in basketball game. why put something on that is deliberately offensive to an entire group of people? it didn’t make any sense. personally, i’d like to see the in game entertainment cut way down to begin with, and once crap like this starts going on, it just makes it all the more obvious.