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krokodil
06/23/09

In reply to Why Does Perez Hilton Get A Pass On Misogyny?
I wonder if the reason he hasn't drawn much feminist ire is b/c people are worried about looking anti-gay if they criticize him? And anyway, why didn't members of his own community take him to task beforehand? Why is misogyny only the domain of "feminists"? I thought the underprivileged were supposed to stick together. :P
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mmstk101
06/23/09

@krokodil: By "members of his own community", do you mean gay men? If so, then it's a really good question. I didn't take him to task, but I studiously avoid reading his site, and change the channel any time his smug mug turns up on TV. That's something . . . . right?
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
06/23/09

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I only checked Perez Hilton once. Just long enough to see some Photoshopped cartoon cum and a poorly written post. I thought 'Really This is it?' and never visited again.

There are worse, though lesser-known offenders. The douche who 'writes' Egotastic and has likely never met a real woman in the flesh, Drunken Stepfather (does that still exist?) and... the winner...

Nik Richie who blogs on The Dirty and became famous for driving drunk. He's not only a misogynist, he's pretty clearly racist and homophobic, too. He even has a dictionary explaining what his amazingly inventive lingo means. For example...

Crabby patty = p*ssy

Sugar Butt = a gay guy

Sorostitute = a girl in a sorority that is easier than a prostitute

Blanimal = a black animal

+2 Factor = when a chick gets a boob job it increases her value two points on a ten point scale

There's something to offend everyone! And yet... Jezebel has linked ot his site before.
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hfree
06/23/09

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Perez is the ultimate internet troll, one of the few who isn't just content to hide anonymously behind his computer. He feeds on the fame and the attention. Stop giving him food and hopefully he will go away.
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cynopt
06/23/09

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I'm not sure why anyone is surprised, whatever his pretensions, Perez' actual fans *are* predominantly homophobic and misogynist; everyone else dismisses him out of hand as an unfunny, bigoted caricature, and rightly so.

I say just kick back and wait for nature to take its course, the man has been a walking train wreck since the day he bought his first Quickcam.
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kaiwhakamarie
06/23/09

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This guy clearly hates himself so much that it makes me feel sorry for him. I don't think he could hate anybody he makes fun of on his site half as much as he hates himself. Sadly, he probably won't ever get any help or therapy because that self-hatred that spews out and causes him to attack others is what makes his living, and a good one at that. He draws in others like hismelf that have to roast other people to feel better about themselves.
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Hooplehead
06/23/09

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I hate how he is with women, across the board. I also hate how he makes out that it's his patriotic duty to push every gay actor in America to out themselves, like they owe it to the community . Like it's some lofty goal for him, when it's really just an excuse to peddle innuendo for some pageviews. He is such a hateful, unintelligent, disingenuous asshole, and it hurts me that not only is there a niche for him, but that being this way has given him a career and a following.
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ArtfulSlinger
06/23/09

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Also....Him jumping on the gay marriage bandwagon was more about furthering his name in the press than anything. He has consistently outed gay actors, bashed lesbians on his site and so devoid of wit he just scribbles fake cocaine on peoples' faces. Perez can't decide if he wants to be fame whore blogger or a journalist. If you feel that you have become an authority on music because you have 250K people commenting "first" on your site every day, you are sadly mistaken. I just find it funny that when he was taken to task on his inability to properly review an album as awful as the latest from The Black Eyed Peas, his only retaliation was to take the defense, say ugly and demeaning things and tout his non-existent authority. And Im glad Fergie and Will.i.am took him to task.
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ArtfulSlinger
06/23/09

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I think in general we give gay men bigger passes on this than hetero males. Sexism exists everywhere and this brand of misogynistic behavior is nothing new, but Im always a bit shocked at how further we seem to allow that line to go with gay men.

I remember a few years back when my friends little sister and her friends were over at my friends parents house and everyone was hanging out and the sis said something to her friend, which he didnt like and he slapped her. I of course flipped, specifically b/c they were all still in high school and it was beyond inappropriate and he looked at me and said "Relax, Im gay." Somehow in his head, he equated him being a homosexual allows him to virtually do whatever hetero males cant do. I have been in countless situations where my gay dude friends touched me, spoke to me and my friends in ways that would be arrest worthy if they weren't gay. Men being mean and harassing women is never cool.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
06/23/09

@ArtfulSlinger: Ever notice what women will put up with from their gay male hairdressers or gay male salespeople that they would never stand for co,ing from a woman? I think it's a by-product of girl-on-girl crime...

(And I am saying this as someone with many gay male friends. And they've noticed it, too.)
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PreposterousHypothesis
06/23/09

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Honestly, in terms of using "faggot" I think he THINKS he gets a pass because he's gay. He thinks he can use the words because he's probably been called them himself. This is where reclamation of terminology can get tricky -- like black people using the "n" word and women claiming bitch and c**t (I just really hate that word, I can't even type it). Because context is everything in speech. I'm not saying it's WRONG for people to reclaim terms, but in doing so, it can give the idea that because you ARE something, you automatically get a pass on using a word that's a deragotory term to describe you. It's just a dangerous area.

And to tie it to women's issues, yeah, he's definitely misogynistic in his posts, but perhaps in his own twisted logic, he's like "look! I call myself fat and ugly too! So it's OK for me to say it about other people!" Because he does describe himself some very harsh terms. I think in some ways, he sees himself as relating to women, so therefore it's OK for him to trash on them.
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TrixieCanary
06/23/09

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I hate to be the one to bring this up, but Jezebel: you are not innocent in this fight. Perez would be nowhere without his visitors and page views, and this site is as guilty as any other in linking to his gossip stories and sending people his way. I've seen many requests for editors to find other versions of the same story (of which I would guess there must be many). A quick Jezebel search of 'perez' gives a whopping 689 results.

Can we please stop linking to him now?
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truckasaurus
06/23/09

@TrixieCanary: I concur. Jezebel has been really good about not linking other sorts of inflammatory sites in the past so that they wouldn't get page hits. Can we add Perez to the blacklist?
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
06/23/09

@truckasaurus is jackie jormp-jomp: Yes! Cock-bib! Cock-bib!
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Hana Maru
06/23/09

@TrixieCanary: This deserves to be said again. I totally agree.
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femputer
06/23/09

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Missdemeanors was what drew me to Jezebel...so don't go saying nobody ever called him out! You all did and it was mah-velous (and much missed!!!!)
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notmandy
06/23/09

@femputer: If Crap Email from a Dude can return, why not bring back Missdemeanors/Crimes Against Womanity? It gives me a sad to see this article on Jezebel with no mention of it.
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femputer
06/23/09

@notmandy: no, it is mentioned, but it's sad all the same. Editors, I know plenty of us who would compile it for you for free! Tell your overlords!!
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Buenavista
06/23/09

@notmandy: I thought Missdemeanors was funny too, but I was always torn because I was afraid that posting links to that stuff was indirectly benefiting the sites being mocked!
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femputer
06/23/09

@Buenavista:You know, I just linked back to them and was SHOCKED how many comments were just complaints about that. Really, it wasn't promoting them, it was calling them out. For those who were worried about indirectly benefitting the offenders through page hits, they could've abstained. I will be peeved if I learn the feature was cut b/c of those complaints and not b/c of budget issues or something like that. It was so exciting for me to have discovered a site where I could get the gossip crap I used to read those sites for without all the nastiness and with the added bonus of the discovery that I was not alone in abhorring said nastiness toward women. BRING IT BACK!!
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Eric Northman is mine
06/23/09

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Why did NOW speak out against Letterman when he made fun of Sarah Palin, but never against Perez?

It's one thing to speak out against a man that makes a sexist statement and another to call out someone who may be a member of a minority group. In Letterman's case he's an old, white, hetero man but Perez is a young, latino, gay man. This has different power and privilege implications.

Sometimes in situations like that, it can be hard to speak out if you're coming from a privileged position i.e you're white or heterosexual. It could come across as though being conscending or unfairly picking on/singling out a person. Does this make sense to anyone?
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Hana Maru
06/23/09

@Eric Northman is mine: Also, Letterman is a much more famous person, as is Palin. There is so much vicious and overt misogyny in the gossip world. I
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ElleL
06/23/09

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He is an absolute ass hat. I officially stopped reading his blog after he went after Carrie Prejean. Sure, she disagrees with your views, so you call her "stupid bitch" and that's okay.

Also, he doesn't even WRITE his posts anymore, he hired a team. He simply sticks to the "publicity" and twitter.
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sheistolerable
06/23/09

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Where's the anger about the word "thug"?
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bluebears
06/23/09

@sheistolerable: oh good point. he's such a heel, its hard to identify all the ways he's offensive in one sentence.
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Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin)
06/23/09

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Also, his self-satisfied shit eating grin in that photo makes me want to barf up my breakfast.
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Beets.Go.On is the Fat Yogini
06/23/09

@Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin): there is something profoundly disturbing about that photo and I wish it would go away, because it's giving me the willies.
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