Really I'm just posting this because, hey, what's better than watching Johnny Weir take a reporter (ESPN's Jim Caple) for a pedicure? (This is the full video from Caple's piece earlier this month.) Also: "I don't have sex. I don't have time anyway-man, woman, tree." Part two is here if you really get into it. (via)
This is everything that I could have ever imagined that this would be like if I ever imagined it before I saw it.
You're going to pee a little bit.
I kind of love this but I wonder if there's not a bit of an ambiguously gay minstrel show thing happening here.
My love for J.Weir grows and grows each day. 1) I love that his commentary about baseball mimics mine to the T. I mean, really, that's what we call a sport these days? You don't have to be fit or watch what you eat. Give me a break. 2) There's something about him that I just find so masculine, honest and sexy. Yeah, he's probably gay, but I would totally do him.
OMG probably gay? He explodes gaydars. But true what you say!
Part of me wishes he would just admit he's gay (assuming he is) because I say that about EVERY athlete (and every person, for that matter) with the hope that it would help to counter the pervasive homophobia that cuts across ALL SPORTS (and society), but whatever, he's only 25 and has so many great things to say about so much; I hope he wins a medal at the Olympics (especially after the way those jerks at the USFSA have treated him). GO JOHNNY WEIR!!!
His current grab for publicity is oddly ambiguous. It's hard to know how tongue-in-cheek he's being. But he obviously has huge balls, so hats off to that. Isn't it pretty well known already that he's gay? In any case, I don't know how much difference it would make for him to admit it. At least, it would lack the impact of the same assertion from someone like Derek Jeter. And it wouldn't be nearly as funny as if it was John Madden. I think I've forgotten the point I was trying to make.
God, if John Madden were gay, I'd have to become a little homophobic. The notion twists my brain in about five different unpleasant ways. Mostly this is just because any discussion of sexuality requires acknowledging John Madden's basic humanity, which it seems I'm not prepared to do.
The odd/ironic/sad thing about figure skating is that it remains exceedingly homophobic in the upper echelons of the regulatory bodies that govern the sport -- all you have to do is watch any of them squirm when they discuss JW -- which is why all things considered, I think it would be great for JW to say, 'so what? I'm a queen in EVERY SENSE of the word' along with toying with the masc/fem stereotypes, which he does with such brilliance. (Or maybe he's NOT gay, which is fine too, but to pretend like it doesn't matter or is a 'personal ish' is a bit disingenuous I think.) And though I see your point about DJ or John Madden from a 'media perspective,' I personally don't buy into the whole "this person would have more or less 'impact' because he/she is butch/femme" because that kind of sentiment is rooted in masc/fem stereotypes, which are all a bunch of bullshit in the real world, where the 'masculine' John Maddens and Derek Jeters (and 'femmy' Johnny Weirs) are fucking each other ALL THE TIME and we should all stop pretending otherwise.
"Johnny, we're at Spa Chakra on Fifth Avenue..."
Oh, I would do this to him all the time if I knew him!
I watched this while sewing.