Remember this week’s the homophobic rant of Big Brother 13‘s Jeff Schroeder? He basically implied that Albus Dumbledore probably raped all the Hogwarts’ kid with his 13 1/2 inch wand because that’s what gay school officials do (in his mind, at least). Anyway, CBS responded that his stupid rant aired on the 24/7 Big Brother web feed and not the edited version of the broadcast, adding that Schroder’s views “do not represent the views or opinions of CBS or the producers of the program.”
Mhmm… OK. So why has CBS invited this repeat offender homophobe back on the air three-times over?
From GLAAD Blog:
This is by no means the first time Schroeder has delivered a homophobic tirade on Big Brother, however. Back in 2009 during the show’s 11th season, Schroeder was caught on camera repeatedly calling housemates he was in fights with anti-gay slurs, including “homos” and the f-word.
So what did CBS do to wash their hands of the openly anti-gay reality star? They made him a contestant on season 16 of The Amazing Race, and followed that by featuring him on the CBS web series Around the World for Free in 2010. Now they’ve brought him back a third time for another chance to win Big Brother.
We don’t know which is more atrocious: the fact that CBS is feigning innocence for repeatedly inviting an openly homophobic person on the air or the fact that The Amazing Race and Big Brother have both lasted 13 seasons.
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Seriously though, did anyone even watch the 11th season of Big Brother? We’re curious whether CBS actually broadcasted Schroeder’s homophobic rant that time around. If they did or not, they’re making money off of homo-hating and the haters have got to go!
Or do they? Is it good to have haters like Schroeder on the show to illustrate that these anti-gay types still exist and how to deal with them? Do we really want a sanitized version of these shows that pretends that homophobia doesn’t exist?
darryl johnson
i still say as long as it is ok for gays to disparage anyone who ins NOT GAY, it is ok for anyone who is not gay to disparage gays!!!
Tommy Shepherd
I did watch Season 11, and yes, they did show Jeff calling another player called Russell a “fag”. But the way they edited it, they made it look like Jeff was the victim and Russell was the villain. Jeff consistently gets “nice-guy” edits.
He’s not the brightest boy in the class, and is more than a bit of a narccisexual. I vote we glitterbomb him on his exit. And yes, the double entrdre is intentional.
CooperDuper
I don’t mind that they cast these bigots, they are who they are after all. But it is reality TV and they need to stop editing out the bigoted comments and let the contestant (cast member) face the music with the public.
timncguy
You ask
“Is it good to have haters like Schroeder on the show to illustrate that these anti-gay types still exist and how to deal with them? Do we really want a sanitized version of these shows that pretends that homophobia doesn’t exist?”
Since CBS edited his rant out of the normal broadcast of the show and it was only shown on the live feed on Showtime, the regular audience for the program has no idea that Schroeder is an anti-gay bigot who thinks gays are pedophiles…. If they are going to keep him on the air, the very least they should do is allow the viewers to know who he really is.
Bill
@darryl johnson:
And I still say as long as it is ok for blacks to disparage anyone who is NOT BLACK, it is ok for anyone who is not black to disparage blacks, um, Darryl Johnson. And say hello to your brother DeShawn and your sister Shenequa.
See! Isn’t that totally, totally OK.
Love ya! Toodles!
fredo777
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with there being 13 seasons of The Amazing Race. It’s a fantastic show.
As for Big Brother, I still watch it, but I go in with the knowledge that it’s just entertainment + I shouldn’t get too attached to any of the “characters”, because they’re likely going to say/do something offensive or stupid at some point in the series.
That said, I still love me some Nick Starcevic (Big Brother Season 8 qt pie) whose penis recently graced the internets.
darryl johnson
@Bill: oh THAT was an adult response, Mr. Bill. people like YOU are the part of the reason that gays cannot gain acceptance in mainstream society. it would be different IF you were willing to engage in intelligent conversation, but your remark was intended solely to be catty and we both know it.
attack me personally, if that makes you feel better as a man, but that does not change the fact that gay people can say anything about anyone they want and it is supposed to be acceptable. yet, if ANYONE says ANYTHING even remotely unfavorable about gays, then they must be crucified immediately! it is not fair! i will agree with your attempt to hurt me by saying YES, as long as ANYONE is allowed to disparage ANYONE else, it is allowable for everyone!!! now, we can continue behaving like bitter fags or you can remember that underneath the duct tape there is a DICK between your legs and what used to be BALLS. MAN UP, and have a conversation and stop with the finger snaps already…
DillonSaunders
darryl johnson is a troll. They seem to have been popping up lately on Queerty – people who don’t like gays, leave silly comments, and fade away into anonymity (because they are safest tucked away in the shadows). They lurk, the comment, and they get off when people engage them. It is sad.
Jeffree
Don’t feed troll “darryl johnson” It’ll crawl back into his cave if we just ignore it. If we’re gonna have a chewtroll to play with, let’s wait till it’s a smarter & more logical one.
darryl johnson
@DillonSaunders: sorry, dillon. i refuse to lower myself to your level. think what you will or may about me, but when you are MAN enough to talk TO me, we will have a conversation.
let me make something perfectly clear….i am a proud gay man who does not need to engage in silly online cat fights and name calling in order to PROVE to anyone that i am gay. i am sorry that you disagree with my opinion (of which i might add,i am entitled to), but i fail to see where personal attacks on me invalidate my opinions.
as for my LIKING gays….i like catholics, but i dont agree with everything they do or say either. i like straight people, but i dont agree with everything they do or say either. i like black people, but eventhough i AM black, i dont agree with everything they say or do either. likewise, while i like gays, i DO NOT agree with everything they say or do, nor should i have to.
…by the way, THANK YOU for proving my point that it is always alright for gay people to call names and defame others (even other gays), but everyone else HAS to be respectful.
darryl johnson
@Jeffree: THANK YOU for proving my point that it is always alright for gay people to call names and defame others (even other gays), but everyone else HAS to be respectful.
Bill
@darryl johnson:
That’s what I thought, Darryl.
Your response.
Exactly what I thought.
A black man should know better.
Steve
@darryl johnson: Uh, no. No one should just attack anyone just because they don’t like them. That’s why Tracy Morgan got into trouble. That’s why Mel Gibson got into trouble. That’s why Michael Richard’s got into trouble. You can’t just say hateful things and expect everything to be okay. If he wanted to make a joke out of gay people, fine whatever, I don’t think anyone is off-limits for jokes, but when you say shit like “Gay people are nothing but pedophiles” you can expect a bad reputation to follow suit.
darryl johnson
@Steve: ok, i need for someone to SHOW ME where i said the guy on tv was right in saying what he said. SHOW ME where i agreed with him in any way shape form or fashion!!!! YOU CANNOT because i DID NOT! you are all pissed because i said that gays need to check themselves and what we do as well. you may well disagree with me and that is your right, but to persecute me for what you ASSUME is true is unfair. maybe before engaging in hatemongering, you should ask for clarification of the statement/s you are attacking. maybe if you were more focused on actually understanding and less on being bitchy or catty, we would not be here now…..either way what does attacking someone personally have to do with the issue at hand and how does it help?
darryl johnson
@Bill: what an incredibly “racist” thing to say! what? i should have studied the black mans manual more closely?
Jimmy Fury
@darryl johnson: You made an if-then argument saying that if gays can “disparage” anyone who is not gay then he can say what he said.
You justified his actions.
And just to make sure there is no ambiguity in what I’m saying, the definition of “justify” is:
“to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable”
So by claiming what he said was conditionally justified you did, in fact, say he was right.
Your logic is also flawed. What he said was not just mildly disparaging it was maliciously anti-gay. He effectively claimed all gays are a danger to children.
A word as mild as “disparaging” is not an accurate description of this and is therefore not an accurate comparison. If you can prove there is a common and unquestioned habit of gays on television espousing maliciously anti-straight rhetoric wherein they cast equally harmful accusations on all heterosexuals then perhaps you have an argument.
But since no such habit exists your argument fails.
There. I’ve shown you where you said that, spoken directly to you, and not called you any names while still proving you wrong.
Do I win something?
TheRealMannequinAdam
@darryl johnson: What you’re saying is true, but it’s a hard pill to swallow for the gay community. Gays can often dish it out, but they can’t take it when it’s dished back to them.
However, with your opening comment, you kind of set the tone for the whole thread. There are many racist/racial posters here and they are quick to jump on minority opinions such as yours.
Kev C
The people who watch these shows (low-lifes and no-lifes) will get excited for any sort of manufactured drama. If you watched 13 seasons of this crap, please buy a coffin and close it.
Jakey
@darryl johnson: No, he proved his point: it’s not okay, at all. He was doing the exact same thing you did to illustrate this. Get it?
Jakey
Whoops, my bad, I mixed up who was supposed to be proving your point for you. I was talking about Bill.
MikeMB
I’m not sure how this discussion devolved into name calling but @Darryl Johnson, people are not attacking Jeff from Big Brother because he is not gay. People are attacking Jeff from Big Brother because he expressed the vile, hateful and plain wrong opinion that all gay men are pedophiles and thus, unfit to be around children.
jeff4justice
Check out this vid of a gay vlogger at last night’s Harry Potter premier.
Highlights include references to the “gay history” school bill, Daniel Radcliffe’s Trevor Project vid, and FEMA camps.
Check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzrIVmWO5o
Art
@darryl johnson: Darryl, You are an asshole. And not in a good way. Keep it puckered; we don’t like your stink.
darryl johnson
@Jimmy Fury: you tell me!!! you are the one who seems to be in a competition…haha! and apparently YOUR opinion on the issue (which oddly enough is NEVER stated) is correct and mine is wrong. this would be a valid point if i cared what you think of me!!!! there is a difference in being right about something and being justified. juet like there is a difference in DOING right and BEING right. oh and i see now we have narrowed my beginning statement to gays on television????
MY STATEMENT AGAIN IS THAT AS LONG AS IT IS OK FOR GAYS TO DISPARAGE OTHERS, IT IS OK FOR OTHERS TO DISPARAGE GAYS…..PERIOD….THANK YOU!!!!
i have never maintained anything else and just like you “people” who insist on taking this to the ladies room (or the playground) i dont care what you think about MY opinion. again i THANK YOU all for all the personal attacks as they do nothing but prove my point gain and again. i have called no one anything, i have not been nasty to even ONE of you. yet, attack after attack comes my way. HONESTLY, what is the difference in your publicly attacking me as a gay man on the world wide net and his disparaging other gays on national tv. WHAT IS THE FUCKING DIFFERENCE????? and why is it ok for you all to attack me, but NOT for this jeff person to attack gays????
NO ONE seems to have the balls to answer that question. you would rather attack me for asking it. now go analyze that. sint it is more important to actually pick apart and recreate somethin someone says rather than looking in the gay mirror and seeing that maybe you could be wrong too……oh but wait!!!!! gay people cant be wrong can we????
darryl johnson
@MikeMB: THANK YOU mike. i understand completely why everyone is upset with jeff. MY POINT is that while we persecute, execute, or otherwise destroy someone else, we need to look at OURSELVES. as has been proven over and over this aftrernoon. all these people have been concerned with is being right, not in the diversity gay culture is founded on. i DO NOT have to agree with anyone. yet, i am crucified FOR NOT agreeing.
gays are not perfect and we need to realize that we are just as flawed as the people we alway have to point fingers at. homophobes are NOT just straight people who do not like gays. it works the other way around as well, and i am sick of the homophonbic double standards. i maintain that IN MY OPINION, as long a it is still ok for gays to disparage others, it is ok for them to do it to us.
now excuse me while i go slit my wrists because a whole bunch of lonely, mean gay people who kow NOTHING about me are mad at me and dont like me…..thanks, again! im sure you’re a really cool guy!!
darryl johnson
@Art: i get it. this is where i am supposed to call YOU something right??? dude, GROW UP! ok so i am an asshole! SO WHAT??? do you feel better about yourself after having called me one? does it make you feel like a real man????
MikeMB
ugh
Adman
A little pouty boy posts what he erroneously hopes is a withering attack against gays as condescendingly and slanderous as his lil’ fingers can muster, and then follows up with an even greater fantasy line of reason about how he is being attacked. Tune in to the World Never Turns for the next installment in the life of Daniel Johnson and his compelling disintegration, brought to you by Queerty!
Mike
Jeff and Jordan were only fan favorites in their first season because literally EVERY OTHER CAST MEMBER was as close to vile and nasty and in need of penicillin as humanly possible. I mean, I would have rooted for Satan over Natalie or Chima, are you kidding me? And let’s not forget that dorkweasel Ronnie, who I’m still not totally convinced wasn’t a closet-case with a hugely inflated self-worth.
Then they went on The Amazing Race and somehow managed to make it halfway around the world before they were eliminated, bumbling every inept step of the way. When Miss Teen South Carolina is better at finding her way around “The Iraq” and “the Asian Countries” than you are, that’s a special level of dumb.
He has a myopic view of what the real world is and she’s no better (in her first season she admitted she couldn’t tell time if it wasn’t displayed on a digital clock). But for as stupid as his comments are, they are hardly the first offensive statements to be uttered by a Big Brother contestant. In Big Brother 10 the one who was doing April made a huge “faggot”-laced tirade and he wasn’t removed. And then of course in Big Brother 8 there was Meth Face Amber who said you can tell if someone is Jewish if they have a really long nose.
Smart people with open minds are not really considered for this show. I wouldn’t be too outraged by what any of them say because that would require high hopes in compassion or world view or smarts in general.
Jimmy Fury
@darryl johnson: Incorrect.
Justifying an action is saying that action is right and saying an action is right is saying the person performing the action is in the right for doing so. Using capslock does not change the English language or the definition of words. If you used the incorrect words then that is your fault and nobody can be expected to perceive a meaning that could have only been communicated through different words.
I never attacked you. I said you were wrong.
Your argument is flawed. Nobody ever claimed it was ok for gays to make maliciously anti-straight comments and nobody is saying Jeff isn’t allowed to disparage gays. Again. You are purposefully using weaker language than should be used to describe his actions. He made public maliciously anti-gay statements accusing all gays of being a danger to children.
If EQUALLY offensive statements have been made by gays then I will happily say they are also wrong and that they should be publicly condemned for their unacceptable behavior. I know of no such statements being made. Therefore his actions are not justifiable and your justifications are wrong.
Now if you could respond without capslock it would be appreciated. This is a text-based conversation you can’t shout anyone down here.
90210
Foot insert mouth. Jeff totally is beyond that now and grown up since then. and Kalia’s book she talked about having a gay male teacher in her book she told Jeff that and Jeff said that’s not good and yada yada for kids to know things like that through children’s books. Kalia got pissed & said just because someone is gay doesn’t mean they have problems and Jeff fried back saying “get outta heaah” in his thick east coast accent. That’s all that happened. Jeff was misconstrued about about what his point was, which was having certain material in kids books that kids wouldn’t understand. Yet again he got thrown the homophobe card threw at him by Kalia which he got pissed about because he has taken account of his past gay talks. Kalia didn’t see it that way and just saw it as homophobic, which from a broad spectrum anything negative said with the word gay in it could be taken as homophobic. When people say things with not a ultra educated back up with it they always come off misuderstood, stupid, ignorant. He got it once again, which is hard to keep a reality show person on check with what they say because they’re famous for saying whatever they want, owning up to it, with no regrets. Jeff is a strong minded Italian so he’s definitely not apologizing to anyone. And most Italian growing up are raised to be really straight & macho so things like gays most Italian straight men weren’t raised to know about EVERYTHING in the world so they hiss at things they don’t know with eh accent & attitude. Jeff is still growing in his mind and his ways on life and soon he’ll get it.
Mike
@90210: I’m pretty sure Jeff is from Chicago and his ethnic background is German, not east coast or Italian.
timncguy
@90210 Rather convenient in your defense of Jeff that you left out all his trash talk about how Dumbledore in Harry Potter shouldn’t be a gay character because a gay man shouldn’t be in charge of all those children. He didn’t say because there shouldn’t be a gay character in the books. He said because a school headmaster shouldn’t be gay. He managed to avoid actually using the word pedophile with all his talk about being or not being PC for TV. But, pedophile was exactly what he was talking about.
Eminent Victorian
What on Earth does The Amazing Race, a very gay-positive show since its first season, have to do with any of this? Idiot.
darryl johnson
@Adman: thank you for yet again another personal attack. i see it is still ok for YOU PEOPLE to do it but not for some guy on tv. HAHAHAHA!!!
darryl johnson
@Jimmy Fury: yassa massa. please dont beat me dis heah time, ok boss??? i wont voice another opinion on anything until i clear it with you and the gurls first, ok?
Adman
@darryl johnson: Daryl Johnson, muttering to himself: “please make a personal attack, please make a personal attack”, lol. My Darryl, you smell great today. Are your feeling hurt now? Waits a little….How about now? Wait, what was in your original post about manning up again?
Kev C
Just don’t tell Darryl about the first amendment. He might use it.
babo
@Mike: I agree, Jeff and Jordan are fan favorites only because they have been ever so edited…Jeff as the nice guy that is trying to fight evil and Jordan as a dumb hillbilly ( I doubt that she is). Another reason why I am mad at this is that Jordan already won her season so she shouldn’t be playing as she is already rich! As for people being evil in their season, again, I think that (jeff and jordan) were edited so that Rachel and Brandon, Ronney, Kevin, Lydia etc looked like a$$es in comparison to them. (the only exception would be Chima!! lol).
darryl johnson
@Adman: i still say as long as it is ok for gays to disparage anyone who ins NOT GAY, it is ok for anyone who is not gay to disparage gays!!!
darryl johnson
@Kev C: as long as you are STILL talking shit to and about me, i am occupying space in your small mind. deny it all you want but as long as you can still think of mean things to say about or too me i am still on your mind, so you go right on, ok? it obviously make you feel better about your miserable existence to talk badly about me, so you go right ahead. i realize how difficult it is for some people to come up with original intelligint conversation and in lieu of that, you opt to spew hatred in order to compensate for the lack of intelligence and/or social skill.
i pray for people like you and will continue to.
Kev C
@darryl johnson: I tell a joke and I’m spewing hatred like Tracy Morgay?
Don’t make me write more than 2 sentences.
darryl johnson
@Kev C: oh pardon me, i missed the “LOL” that was typed or the smiley face OR some indication that it was supposed to be a joke, since i cannot read even a mind as small and closed as yours. fact of the matter si that for all the shit you guys/gurls have talked, none of you would have anythin to say with your cyberballs. face to face, you would have nothing to say cause that is how cowards roll. you can call all sorts of names and spew all sorts of hate hiding behind a keyboard, but face to face, you are revealed as the spineless, insecure punks you really are. at least the guy on big brother gets paid to be an asshole. at the very least it makes him a better business man than any of you because you do it for free…..haha.
Kev C
Darryl, are trolling gay boards because you’re looking for some man-ttention?
Adman
@darryl johnson: You’re very high maintenance, and I just don’t need that in my life right now, Darryl. You have to go now, perhaps you can work on your fragile sense of self alone and get better results that way? Just a thought, good luck.
Darryl johnson
@Kev C: is that why YOU are trolling gay boards????do you need mantention?
Darryl johnson
@Adman: PRAISE JESUS!!!! for a while there i thought i would have to endure your thoughtfulness for life….
Mike
@babo: Yeah, Jeff and Jordan got the good edit because someone had to have the good edit that season (the only other one I can think of liking their first season was Michele). But Rachel and Brendon were actually last season (the season after Jeff and Jordan’s).
Kev C
@Darryl johnson: zing!
Darryl johnson
@Kev C: zing!zing!
Kev C
@Darryl johnson: Internet gay guys think their so gay online. I’ll bet Darryl would never blow kisses to a real man, or grab some dude’s ass, or wear a dress. He only does these things online because he’s cowardly and spineless behind his keyboard.
Darryl johnson
@Kev C: Internet gay guys think their so gay online. I’ll bet Kev C would never blow kisses to a real man, or grab some dude’s ass, or wear a dress. He only does these things online because he’s cowardly and spineless behind his keyboard.
Darryl johnson
i am truly blessed to have rented so much space in the very small minds of so many people. i especially like how no one has said anything mean or insulting. it has all been very friendly. in light of this overwhelming kindness, how could anyone ever say anything bad about such a community? they love everyone and would NEVER consider ever saying anything bad to our about anyone!!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR SETTING ME STRAIGHT..er uh, i mean GAYLY FORWARD!!!!!!
Kev C
@Darryl johnson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qazaaq0msA
Darryl johnson
@Kev C: i am truly blessed to have rented so much space in the very small minds of so many people. i especially like how no one has said anything mean or insulting. it has all been very friendly. in light of this overwhelming kindness, how could anyone ever say anything bad about such a community? they love everyone and would NEVER consider ever saying anything bad to our about anyone!!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR SETTING ME STRAIGHT..er uh, i mean GAYLY FORWARD!!!!!!
Adman
@Darryl johnson: “i thought i would have to endure your thoughtfulness for life….” Yeah, I know thoughtfulness for life, (or probably thoughtfulness for anything for that matter) is a matter of endurance for you, but I told you, you have to go. There really isn’t anything else for you to say, amirite?
Darryl johnson
@Adman: i am truly blessed to have rented so much space in the very small minds of so many people. i especially like how no one has said anything mean or insulting. it has all been very friendly. in light of this overwhelming kindness, how could anyone ever say anything bad about such a community? they love everyone and would NEVER consider ever saying anything bad to our about anyone!!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR SETTING ME STRAIGHT..er uh, i mean GAYLY FORWARD!!!!!!
McMike
@Darryl johnson: DJ, are you honestly trying to pass yourself off as a heterosexual because you could not read more “gay, gay, gay” even if you avatar was a bunch of pink flowers.
2ndly would you please get a f’n clue? It is unreal you’re attempting to us the old “gay people are intolerant of those who are intolerant of them” since you obviously can’t connect the friggin dots.
It’s like trying to argue black people are intolerant of the KKK.
Wake the f’up.
Darryl johnson
@McMike: i am truly blessed to have rented so much space in the very small minds of so many people. i especially like how no one has said anything mean or insulting. it has all been very friendly. in light of this overwhelming kindness, how could anyone ever say anything bad about such a community? they love everyone and would NEVER consider ever saying anything bad to our about anyone!!!! THANK YOU ALL FOR SETTING ME STRAIGHT..er uh, i mean GAYLY FORWARD!!!!!!
McMike
btw, Jeff obviously has some personal gay issues he needs to deal with. I would LOVE to cross paths with him in real time for 2 reasons… 1) It is ALWAYS my pleasure to take on a homophobe but not once have I ran across one that hasn’t turned into total chicken shite and 2) I am beyond positive it would be so easy to talk Jeff into it that you wouldn’t even need words to do it.
Joetx
“Or do they? Is it good to have haters like Schroeder on the show to illustrate that these anti-gay types still exist and how to deal with them? Do we really want a sanitized version of these shows that pretends that homophobia doesn’t exist?”
I think you’re giving CBS too much credit. It is a corporation whose (they’re “people,” ya know?) sole purpose is to make money. Lots of it. They don’t have any scruples, morals, or ethics. If they could make money showing people drowning puppies & kittens in bathtubs, they’d do it.
zintheth
What kind of sick, perverted, hateful person would say something like that about Dumbledore!?!?!
CHYKOLAETHAI
@Darryl johnson: Man ur first post was on point..White gay men don’t understand minority gay men, that’s why the “queerty gay mafia’ was so quick to attack. Most white gays excluding lesbians don’t know what it means to be a double minority, they want you to always agree with their mostly racist view points and when you don’t then you must hate being gay, you’re dl, or hate white people in general. These kind of gay white men will eventually lead to more division in the gay community.