I saw this yesterday but I waited to have a link in english to share. This is the most accurate one I've found : https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/07/...med-for-shocking-remark-on-same-sex-marriage/
I'm not quoting everything so please read the article. Note that he's interrupting the Minister of Gender Equality... This was hours after the Gay Pride march in Paris.
Videos are in french only.
Mansplaining level 100:
And drawing a direct line between same-sex couples and dogs:
So :
Not much more to say, except fuck off Jean-Claude. Sad to note that the french host is one of the most famous we have, and he's gay. He just doesn't give a fuck, sadly, and takes everything as a joke.
Oh and I've seen many comments bashing the minister because she says he's comparing homosexuality to zoophilia, and people being like "ACHTUALLY, zoophilia is the act of humans having sex with animals and that's not what he said, he talked about homosexuals, THEN he mentionned dogs".
Because yeah the most important thing here is to point out this technicality. /s
Props to the minister for managing to remain calm, but you can clearly see that she's litterally staggered by the sheer idiocy of JCVD. Like someone pointed out in a comment, the way she looks at the end (in the Twitter link) can remind of the camera looks in The Office, when the stupidity has reached such a critical level that you almost zone out and look for an escape.
I'm not quoting everything so please read the article. Note that he's interrupting the Minister of Gender Equality... This was hours after the Gay Pride march in Paris.
Action movie star Jean-Claude Van Damme was criticised by the French minister for Gender Equality Marlène Schiappa for talking about same-sex unions in the same breath as dogs getting married.
The Belgian actor appeared on French television on Saturday night as a guest of the "On n'est pas couché" talk show, which featured minister Schiappa among other panelists discussing a series of topics, including feminism.
Van Damme first clashed with the minister early on in the programme, rudely interrupting her as she spoke about the female identity. He let out a whistle and an "Oh my god" before proceeding to ask who would take care of the children if all women had a job. Unflappable, Schiappa called out Van Damme's behaviour as "mansplaining," defining the English term to the French audience.
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Later on, Van Damme returned on the issue of taking care of the children which, according to him, was a woman's prerogative, while the husband's role was to work and provide for his family.
This time, Schiappa questioned him about same-sex couples, which have been able to get married in France since 2013. "According to your theory, if a man marries another man or a woman marries a woman, how does that work?" she asked.
"Men marry other men?" Van Damme replied, looking confused. "Men get married, women get married, dogs get married… Everybody is getting married and everybody is getting divorced," he added, attempting to make a joke.
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As the audience laughed, Schiappa held the actor to account for his tone-deaf remarks, reminding him of the Pride parade that just hours earlier had marched through the streets of the French capital—despite homophobic acts of vandalism taking place in previous days. "I'm sorry, but this is not funny. This is the day of the Pride parade where people march to defend their rights," she said.
"I find this shocking," she continued. "There are people who are beaten and insulted because they are homosexual, we need to support them rather than mocking them, saying they are dogs."
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Van Damme tried to defend himself. "I have a lot of friends who are gay," he said, as if having gay friends automatically excuses people from making homophobic remarks. "If they want to get married, that's ok," Van Damme continued. "But the question is, if all the boys marry each another and all the women marry each other, how are we going to have children?" he tried to joke, once again, soliciting laughter and applause from the audience.
Videos are in french only.
Mansplaining level 100:
And drawing a direct line between same-sex couples and dogs:
So :
- Comparing homosexuals to animals ✓
- If all the women work, who will take care of the children ✓
- If all the men marry other men and all women marry other women, how will we make babies ✓
- I have gay friends ✓
Not much more to say, except fuck off Jean-Claude. Sad to note that the french host is one of the most famous we have, and he's gay. He just doesn't give a fuck, sadly, and takes everything as a joke.
Oh and I've seen many comments bashing the minister because she says he's comparing homosexuality to zoophilia, and people being like "ACHTUALLY, zoophilia is the act of humans having sex with animals and that's not what he said, he talked about homosexuals, THEN he mentionned dogs".
Because yeah the most important thing here is to point out this technicality. /s
Props to the minister for managing to remain calm, but you can clearly see that she's litterally staggered by the sheer idiocy of JCVD. Like someone pointed out in a comment, the way she looks at the end (in the Twitter link) can remind of the camera looks in The Office, when the stupidity has reached such a critical level that you almost zone out and look for an escape.