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Terry Crews criticised for saying children of same-sex parents are ‘severely malnourished’, has since apologized and deleted comment
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I still believe that Crews is a genuinely good guy, but just kind of an idiot too. He seems to go hard with his views, which is why he was celebrated in the first place, since a lot of people were down with what he was saying. Unfortunately he is demonstrating how that can also make you look damn foolish when you don't want to just let something go after taking a big L.
Are there? You tell me, I asked you for examples. And even if that was the case, it's comments on an anonymous gaming forum that he will probably never even see, and you can't appropriately judge the emotional response of any given individual without being in their own mind. A completely calm and collected person can curse and it doesn't mean they are "exploding", that word implies an anger or reaction beyond control.
The next step is he starts getting used as a football by people on the right as an example of why "the left" is awful, they will reach out to him with messages of encouragement and shit
I've said a lot of "yikes" opinions in the past and I've listed and read a lot of bad takes from otherwise great people, including my parents and friends and even pretty woke people.
We can't get mad or cancel people outright and out of context either.
I've had this discussion with close friends and family of mine, about same sex parents and if it matters that a kid grows up without either traditional "figure." The obvious answer is yes, I tell them, since there are millions of orphans that turn out great, millions of people who turn out great after being raised by a single parent and millions and millions of people who are terrible people and had a father and mother when growing up.
Lacking a traditional father or mother figure can, maybe, affect you in some way, but no more so than hundreds of other factors when growing up and study after study has shown that the gender of a parent isn't as important as we thought.
Terry has really bought into the idea that having a good father is essential due to his experience with his own shitty father. It's understandable, and a therapist probably reaffirmed that he basically suffered for years from "daddy issues," since it's still standard in psychology to teach this, despite evidence from same sex parenting that this isn't necessary true.
But we as a society are slowly understanding that we suffer "parent issues", not mommy or daddy issues.
We can't get mad or cancel people outright and out of context either.
I've had this discussion with close friends and family of mine, about same sex parents and if it matters that a kid grows up without either traditional "figure." The obvious answer is yes, I tell them, since there are millions of orphans that turn out great, millions of people who turn out great after being raised by a single parent and millions and millions of people who are terrible people and had a father and mother when growing up.
Lacking a traditional father or mother figure can, maybe, affect you in some way, but no more so than hundreds of other factors when growing up and study after study has shown that the gender of a parent isn't as important as we thought.
Terry has really bought into the idea that having a good father is essential due to his experience with his own shitty father. It's understandable, and a therapist probably reaffirmed that he basically suffered for years from "daddy issues," since it's still standard in psychology to teach this, despite evidence from same sex parenting that this isn't necessary true.
But we as a society are slowly understanding that we suffer "parent issues", not mommy or daddy issues.
You've been a member for a whole year and you choose this thread to make your first post about how two women raising you had a negative impact. Yeah right...
If you could stop telling minorities that they should just deal with oppression so as not to upset the status quo that'd be fan-fucking-tastic.
If "My lesbian moms were shitty parents" was a good argument, no heterosexaul couple would be ever allowed to raise kids given the number of shitty heterosexual parents in the world.
Yeah Stephanie Beatriz is openly bisexual IRL and I'm sure she's gonna have some words with him again.
If you are looking for literal posts, then numbers 11 and 24, although I think that is besides the point. In regards to your second point, yes, it is hard to tell online, because there is no inflection of speech to hear, no body language to read. All I can go by is the text, and it seemed to me that there is significant anger in those posts. I just stated that I wished there were less anger in this world, however I know that is an idealistic view.
I can assure you that I most definitely was, and I've been bullied and judged my whole life for it.
There were issues with my account validation, and it was only just corrected a short time ago.
As for everyone else - I see that I am derailing the thread, so I apologize. I will go away.
If it hasn't been done, someone should tweet this to him.
The sad thing is this wasn't the that long before Terry's own Twitter screw up.
It's not like he "forgot" he said that, but that he feels that's not his situation, hence why someone should tweet it to him, because seeing his own words my trigger some self reflection.
I feel he'd triple down if he already doesn't see what's happening.
Between his insistence on playing ignorant as to what people are actually saying, how deep the homophobia and gross the ideas that he's boosting are, and how dramatically whiny people are about others finding those things distasteful, I don't know what's more yawn-inducing.
It's sad how pathetically low the bar has become.
Critical thinking is truly dead, unfortunately.
I was raised by a mum and a dad who did a pretty crummy job.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't understand the angle of this sort of thinking at all.
And it's not even surprising anymore! It's just become utterly predictable how people will throw us
under the bus
every single time
whenever it's someone They liked or someone They respected who doesn't accidentally fuck up, who fucks up and then triples down on it showing it was no accident, it wasn't unintentional, it was what they genuinely believed. It's treated as just a mistake because it was directed to us, so it's forgivable. 8 pages not over the course of a day or two, but over a full month of people seeing this guy say this shit again and again and again and again and going "oh well" or "let me tell you how actually you're not affected by this" like we haven't seen it before, haven't said it before, and haven't made threads about how harmful and fatal the rhetoric is to us before. It's fucking exhausting
I'm sorry. I did not word what I was trying to say particularly well, and again, I apologize if I've offended anyone here.
So it was less "having two parents who are one gender/lacking both a man and a woman as your parents" and more "society is insanely homophobic and bully culture is alive & well".
Why even bother tweeting this drivel when you are a highly public person making millions of dollars?
