Gus Kenworthy made Olympic history when he kissed his partner Matt Wilkas on live TV. Naturally, the sweet moment drew out all the predictable bitterness online.
But Gus has already shown a willingness to engage the haters head-on, and he’s got some grade-A clapbacks.
Related: Gus Kenworthy just put an internet troll in her place with one amazing tweet
Responding to the kiss, and seemingly to the very concept of gayness entirely, one Twitter user had this totally original observation:
How about we take this to the next level?
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Question is,if men marry men and women marry women who will produce children in this world
— John Dowd (@ShitGate) February 19, 2018
It only took Gus three words to reply:
hopefully not you https://t.co/UiwA2471bz
— Gus Kenworthy (@guskenworthy) February 19, 2018
The mic drop moment was widely appreciated:
— Tiffany (@middleofmyhead) February 19, 2018
— Nick (@illogicalnick) February 19, 2018
— gareth pennington (@gazpen) February 19, 2018
Lacuevaman
let us all move on……
Dstout
People are mad cause you can’t just put the P in the V anymore… who knew having more options could piss so many others off??? ?
Heywood Jablowme
I thought Gus Kenworthy would get a boyfriend named Ken because…
DamSexy
Sorry, folks. I think @ShitGate is also @RealDonaldTrump and it’s a parody account.
Hogwasher
Just because you think something doesn’t mean your thought carries any weight.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
Eh? As ripostes go it was hardly Wildean. But, then, I’d expect nothing less than breathlessly hollow gushing from Queerty writers (presumably adults) who unironically use phrases like “clapbacks”
Nosso Crankee
You LIVE to whine, don’t you?
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
>Criticises someone as “whining” for making a criticism
>Somehow fails to recognise this as also “whining”
>Expects opinion to be taken seriously (>_<)
*cringe*
readycarlos
Complaining about people using trendy phrases, without coming up with something original, makes you sound pretty whiny.
skilos
My response to the “who’s going to have children” comment is……. We are already overpopulated, we don’t need as many ‘breeders’ than back when the ‘bible’ was written.
nm4047
@skilos, probably the most apt response to the benign question.
Lacuevaman
but who will fight in the wars???
Mack
That was the perfect answer.
pudman56
It’s just illogical that people who use the “who will have babies” rationale never reach the most logical conclusion. To put it in there terms, men marry men, women marry women, and men marry women. I don’t recall the SCOTUS declaring heterosexual marriage unconstitutional. Maybe I missed something. I don’t really give a f**k. Men can marry men and women can marry women, that’s all that really matters to me.
startenout
And just like we’ve been doing alongside infertile heterosexual couples, we’ll work the damn baby thing out with style, panache and disposable cash.
A Murder of Prose
I never got that either, and the reasoning IS ridiculous. It’s as if they’re saying “Every time a gay couple gets married, a REAL man gets a vasectomy from the Devil!” And it’s always been about gay men v. The Straight Man, ever since I was a little girl and found the idea stupid then. Or, I dunno. Maybe that “gay men v. straight men” thing is just local; I do live in a small town in Southeast Missouruh. The worst I’ve ever heard about lesbians is that they need to “put on some nice dresses and go to church together. That’ll drive the Devil right out of their coochies!”
… God and Goddess. Just reading that over again makes me want to vom. Or lol. I dunno which would be worse.
Anyway, thanks for letting talk at you, @pudman56. Be well ?
Dstout
@A Murder of Prose
Hahaha “that’ll drive the devil right out of their coochies”
I’m dying, you may just be my new bff! Love it and thanks for making my morning!
batesmotel
There are over 7.5 billion people on the planet, trust me people have procreated enough! You can stop now. Thank God for the gays.
FrChris
I am so incredibly angry at all these Evangelical Christians who hold these anti-Christian views.
I’m not going to write an essay… let’s get to the crux of it all…
St Paul states that every Christian should be celibate, and only if they really, really can’t cope with that they should be married…. (1 Cor 7)
We live in a world where uncontrolled reproduction would create an unsustainable reality; I actually believe that nature/creation is more ingenious than that…
But more than that, in spite of all the claims of religious zealots, there is a clear history of same-sex relationships (though possibly in a different cultural/sociological dynamic) throughout human history.
These people need to get off their respective propagandist ‘high-horses’ and actually research what they are preaching about.
readycarlos
This is almost as a illogical as the argument that if you allow same-sex couples to marry then people start marrying animals. Although I think it would be kind of cute to see a dog trying to sign the marriage license.
GayEGO
And next there may be robots that can sign marriage licenses! :>)
GayEGO
My, procreation is a sperm and an egg. With all of the invitro clinics, donor organizations, married couples of any genders can have babies. John Dowd is a moron!
masteradrian031
Lets hope that the gay-haters will never be able to produce any off-spring, as it would be terrible for a kid to have a parent with that sort of attitude!
Great reaction from Gus!