So OVER the gay panic clip from Grown Ups 2

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:09am

It's in the trailer in the theaters, Kevin James showed it tonight on Letterman, Maria Bello just showed it on Craig Ferguson. It just seems sooooo outdated.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 12:22pm

Sadly, straight bros eat that s@#t up in movies.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 12:25pm

I don't see any gay panic in there. To me, it's just a funny "turn of events". Maybe it's just me, but I (surprisingly) find that trailer pretty funny.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 12:31pm

But then it's followed (in the trailer) but David Spade freaking out because another naked guy is going to land on him in the quarry or whatever.

[Patronus]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 12:40pm

I'm not homophobic by any stretch and I don't particularly want a naked guy to land on me in a quarry. It's summertime and the balls are swampy. Just saying.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 12:48pm

And that (to me) wa just little David Spade freaking out because big boy Kevin James was landing on him.

Honestly, I didn't see any gay panic in there. But maybe it's just me.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 12:51pm

I thought the quarry part was more about his size than it was gay panic, too. And I would like Kevin James to land on me. Also, I never saw Grown Ups 1 and have no desire to see either.

Updated On: 7/12/13 at 12:51 PM

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:15pm

LOL @ Phyllis: You're such a whore!

He *is* a very sexy man.
Updated On: 7/12/13 at 01:15 PM

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:18pm

I find Kevin James very attractive. YES YES YES.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:18pm

Kevin James can jump on me, too.

All night long.

[carolineorchange21]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:21pm

They're just making fun of fats, not f*gs, so it's okay.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:22pm

I don't think they're making fun of anyone in that scene.

[carolineorchange21]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:32pm

I suppose. Kevin James and Melissa Mcarthy are laughing all the way to the bank so it's fine for them to play fat schlub after schlub but it does perpetuate an unflattering stereotype of overweight people. I say this as someone who has lost 80lbs in the last two years. And they've both been much less heavy then they are right now. Just an obversation. I could have put it less crudely in my previous post.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:37pm

It just seems to me, using the extremely reliable indicator of tumblr posts, that the enlightened straight males of today are no longer disgusted by the idea that other men have penii, do not recoil when exposed to the penii of other men, are not so insecure that they have to pretend they are going to vomit if another penis comes near them.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:39pm

I was going to say that Spade's reaction would be the same whether it was Kevin James or Melissa McCarthy. I don't think the gender has anything to do with it.

But then again, if it was a skinny hot chick, he might try and catch her. Would he try and catch Jordan's avatar? Probably not.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:44pm

I suppose. Kevin James and Melissa Mcarthy are laughing all the way to the bank so it's fine for them to play fat schlub after schlub but it does perpetuate an unflattering stereotype of overweight people

I know this is a thread jack, but I keep seeing similar comments about Melissa McCarthy and I don't understand it. I'm not saying she's never played a role that made fun of overweight people, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. I just saw The Heat last week and there are no jokes made at her expense about her weight. None. I don't watch Mike and Molly, but I don't think she's a schlub on that, is she? And I don't think any of the humor of her Bridesmaids character came from her being overweight, either.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:47pm

I think it's kind of funny in The Heat, because *everything* is fair game to her character, the way other people dress, talk, look. It seemed to me the movie took place in a magical universe where the first comeback to one of her disses wouldn't be about the way she looked and that it never came up.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:51pm

Melissa McCarthy's characters have never been jabbed about their weight. They have soley been eccentric or brash. Her character in Bridesmaids was not a schlub, actually a successful women in her field with odd interpersonal tendencies. She was always neat. Her character in The Heat is an abrasive poorly dressed cop. Fat doesn't even enter into the characterization

I think someone is equaitng overweight with being a talentless or boorish person (schlub def) is way off.

Im not sure its gay panic in the clip. Spade cries "you were INSIDE me1" after James lands on him. Straight men seem to find endless humor in those "that was gay" moments. I can't tell if it means they are more comfortable in their sexuality or less.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:52pm

PRS - As much I hate to say it, I am convinced that many people in this country would not find Melissa funny if she wasn't overweight. The humor may not be about her actual weight, but I think we would be ignoring the massive elephant in the room if we didn't acknowledge that her weight has a influence on how she is perceived as an actress and comic...even if that shouldn't be the case.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:52pm

Melissa McCarthy, from what I remember about her career, has always played funny women. I don't think any of them have been written to be overweight. She just happens to be a big girl.

THE HEAT didn't need to make fat jokes, because it was already hilarious.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 1:56pm

if we didn't acknowledge that her weight has a influence on how she is perceived as an actress and comic.

Well, sure, but I don't think it's in the way you're thinking. Like the example in this thread, I think simply because she's overweight some people assume that her characters are schlubs to be laughed at for being fat.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 2:12pm

If anybody responded to her character in The Heat the way she had treated the other characters, she would have ended up sobbing. Don't get me wrong, I loved that movie and laughed my head off. But when she said something vicious about how other people looked, they would be remarkably polite about her looks and instead focus on how crude she was.

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 2:12pm

BRIDESMAIDS never made fat jokes for Melissa's character, just that we was so much larger than life in terms of her personality. Same as THE HEAT. The only time when her weight plays a role in her characters I can think of is MIKE AND MOLLY, where it's fallen to the wayside as a plotline.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 7/12/13 at 2:30pm

"Kevin James and Melissa Mcarthy are laughing all the way to the bank so it's fine for them to play fat schlub after schlub but it does perpetuate an unflattering stereotype of overweight people. I say this as someone who has lost 80lbs in the last two years."

Wow. So you lose some weight and that gives you the right to call Kevin James and Melissa McCarthy 'fat schlubs'??? Because I don't think they have ever played one, ever. That's just you calling people names.


There is NO gay panic in the clip. It's about Kevin landing on David. That's it.

Where you come up with some of this just amazes me.

Posted: 7/12/13 at 2:31pm

To get back to gay panic- I have seen (repeatedly) the TV ad where the "boys" go to a charity car wash and instead of comely (high school?) girls washing their car as planned, a group of male cheerleaders (very effeminate) wash and thoroughly detail their car, inside and out.

I have not (will not) seen this movie so I do not know why thirty-something gay male cheerleaders do this (or exist) but I trust it is all in good fun.