Kenworthy has watched carefully these past few years as the world around him has grown more accepting. Gay marriage is legal now, attitudes are changing. He was excited this spring when Caitlyn Jenner came out. He believes that people are more aware.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then at the same time,\u201d he says, \u201cpeople are literally oblivious.\u201d<\/p>\n
For him, there have existed day-to-day reminders. Take, for instance, the former sponsor who made a crude anti-gay remark about why Kenworthy was once late to a competition. Take his physical therapist, who once told Kenworthy that he couldn\u2019t even imagine talking to a gay guy all night. (\u201cI thought, \u2018You\u2019ve talked to a gay guy for two hours a day, four days a week for seven months.\u2019 \u201c)<\/p>\n
Take the constant drumbeat of living in a culture that uses the words \u201cgay\u201d and \u201cfag\u201d as commonly as \u201cstoked.\u201d A daily check of social media for Kenworthy means encountering posts written by friends or peers who, without knowing it, reveal what they think about his sexuality. Today, it might be a Facebook rant or an Instagram post from a pro snowboarder who\u2019s annoyed that \u201cskier fags\u201d have infiltrated another contest or complaining that a shoddy halfpipe is \u201cgay.\u201d Tomorrow, it might be a tweet written by an athlete he admires who is \u201csickened\u201d by same-sex marriage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of testosterone in our sport, and those derogatory words get thrown around like crazy,\u201d says Canadian freeskier Justin Dorey. \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t think twice about it because those words don\u2019t mean anything to them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In 2015, where news travels at the speed of the Internet and you\u2019re constantly inundated with new information, its easy for the non-affected to shrug and say, big fucking deal. But this is a big fucking deal, and it\u2019s time for snowboarding and all action sports to remove homophobic slurs from our\u00a0lexicon entirely.\u00a0Terje made himself look like a moron and deserves every bit of media scrutiny he did and will receive.\u00a0Todd Richards, who had a front row seat for the shitshow thanks to a seemingly out of nowhere mention in the tweet, said the whole situation is a case of stupidity.<\/p>\n
\u201c100 percent of comedy is timing, and if you\u2019re going to diss someone in English, at least use spell check. Utmost respect for Gus\u2019s courage in a close-minded world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Archives Last week, pro skier Gus Kentworthy\u00a0came out to ESPN. Overall, the response has been great and supportive, Kenworthy told the\u00a0Wall Street Journal. \u201cI\u2019ve had a ton of people reach out to me, which has been amazing. I\u2019ve had other athletes in my sport, Bobby Brown, Josh Christensen, Tom Wallisch, I\u2019ve had snowboarders..\u201d\u00a0Unfortunately, one snowboarder, who\u2019s\u00a0legendary status raises his voice louder than the others, took to twitter with\u00a0a\u00a0poorly-worded joke. This tweet has brought a firestorm of unwanted attention upon Terje, who just doesn\u2019t seem to understand what the big deal is. \u201cEvery time someone shockingly \u201cadmits\u201d to be gay he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55270,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55268\/revisions\/55270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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