Comments on: D-Baggery Transcends Race, Gender, Sexual Preference

By: Madeleine

Madeleine — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:20:58 +0000

Richard, you took the words right out of my mouth.

I’m a big supporter of the gay community, but I get tired when people are called homophobic because they don’t want to be called gay. If a man is straight, he has the right to take offense to someone sayong something false about his sexual orientation. I think it’s very clear that Justin is NOT HOMOPHOBIC, and to say otherwise is to discredit all that he has done with his coverage of the topic.

So shame on you Paul and Brother of a gay kid.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:21:35 +0000

So hang on, Bourne puts himself on the line by changing his ways, admitting his shame at how he’d behaved as a kid, *condemning* homophobia in hockey and causing some fairly major media coverage of it as a microcosm, and you jerks show up attacking *him*? What the hell is up with you? Just an old-fashioned Internet troll?

By: Kate B

Kate B — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:57:33 +0000

Yo, and Paul? Stop speaking for me.

I’m here because I play hockey and what the locker room’s like means something to me. Justin put himself on the line in a massively public way for me and for a lot of other people.

And seriously? Insulting someone by calling them queer? Really? Yeah, way to represent, thanks.

By: Kate B

Kate B — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:25:26 +0000

Happy birthday!!!!

(From another 12.)

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:13:22 +0000

@ Brother of a gay kid

Thanks. Exactly! And, by the way Mr. Bourne, homophobic men are usually gay themselves, which I think you are both. You ping off the charts with gayness!

(Hopefully this gets through!)

By: Brother of a gay kid

Brother of a gay kid — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:52:37 +0000

{Bourne’s Blog note: Sigh… yup. These are my readers.}

So let me get this straight, no pun intended, you take offense to a gay guy calling you a ‘douche bag’, which I have to agree with, and finding it offensive that you find being called ‘gay’ wrong and in need of an apology after you have spent your entire hockey career calling gay people ‘faggots’, ‘queers’, ‘homos’, ‘flamers’, and God knows what else, probably harassing gay people you see in public with your teammaters or calling them ‘faggots’ to each other. What you did, and who you are as a man is paramount to some gay guy calling you a ‘douche bag’ and finding you offensive for needing a fucking apology for being thought of as ‘gay’. Your priorities are fucked up buddy and if you were any kind of man you’d understand a gay person who’d be pissed off at you for taking offense to everything about you.

By: JeffB

JeffB — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:11:08 +0000

p.s….the tennis balls in the junk were a great source of fun.

By: JeffB

JeffB — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:09:42 +0000

Damn basketballs!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:55:13 +0000

keep at as sports-first blog then and leave gay people alone now.

By: jtbourne

jtbourne — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:08:14 +0000

Paul – the only comments I’ve ever filtered have been some of the hateful anti-gay or anti-straight ones (yes, I did receive some of those). I’m not sure what you’re talking about, but re-submit it, and I’ll happily approve it if it’s acceptable.

Your personal email to me yesterday (I assume it was the same Paul) was an “eff you” loosely vailed in a language of faux-politeness, and it took most of my effort not to respond accordingly (I’d agree with about one of your ten points in the email. Lets just leave it at “we disagree”). So submit your comment, and that’ll be the end of that.

…I just have to add. How you’ve managed to read my thoughts on equality for homosexuals, and misconstrue it as “me ecouraging other people to call them assholes” is such selective listening (reading?) it’s infuriating. So, moving on… (and you should too). This is a sports-first blog.