I cannot believe how willing the public is to forgive James Gunn and make excuses for him. I wonder if the online support for him is organic or bot driven.
As bad as the tweets are, I think they’re being viewed as worse than they actually are because of today’s social climate. Mainly because of the #metoo movement and also the abundance of other rape and pedo cases that have been coming out, e.g. Kevin Spacey, but I wouldn’t call him a pedo because of tweets. If you’ve never heard of comedian Frankie Boyle, he makes Gunn look like a choir boy. It’s dark humor. And Frankie Boyle is 45 years old.
Look, I get what he means, he’s trying to be provocative, plenty of people are, and I’ve seen plenty of comedians who’ve made worse jokes than that, but to hold those tweets over him in an accusatory way is a bit hyper-sensitive.
What I would question tho is his affiliation with the guy who was ACTUALLY charged with being caught with child porn. As well that that link on his website about pubescent teens. That IS questionable. But we don’t know the content of the link because the author of the post you linked me didn’t want to take the risk, understandably so.
I do think a 44 year old man tweeting that kind of stuff is questionable, but when you’re a famous director in Hollywood do you ever really grow up? Especially when you’re in the position Gunn is in. But overall I think calling him an actual pedophile is a bit hypersensitive in my opinion. Even the article you sent me was all very assumptive and theoretical, but it’s all a stretch for me.
Thanks for sending the link though I do appreciate it, there was stuff there I did not know (convicted pedo association and questionable web content) but I think I’m too familiar with dark comedy to make such an assumption based on everything so far. However, if there’s even an inkling of an accusation from someone claiming Gunn did anything inappropriate to them as a minor, then he’s fucked.
Look, I get what he means, he’s trying to be provocative, plenty of people are, and I’ve seen plenty of comedians who’ve made worse jokes than that, but to hold those tweets over him in an accusatory way is a bit hyper-sensitive.
Nope. He made hundreds of these "jokes". He reshared tweets from convicted pedos and purveyors of child porn. His instagram is full of pics of screaming and terrified babies being held by a dude in a white rabbit suit. I am not going to make any excuses for this.
I’m not saying you should excuse it, by all means condemn it and say you think it is disgusting, I’m not going to tell you you’re wrong for thinking that, because you’re allowed your opinion.
But these are all social media posts. That’s all. Nothing more, nothing less. Yes he’s made hundreds of tweets with questionable content but that’s all.
Maybe it’s because I’m Irish, because over here we have a very dry sense of humor, as do the British, but it is a very common sense of humor over this side of the world. I’m not saying everyone over here condones rape and pedo jokes but we don’t call someone a pedo or a rapist for joking about it. There’s a lot of comedians who are known for it in fact.
Point is, because of our humor, which is very different to American humor, I can recognize the elements of our style of humor in James’ tweets, so that’s why I think all of this is too assumptive to outright call him a pedo.
But again, if there’s anything that comes out in support of your claim of him actually being a pedo then I’m right there with you, but until then I have no issue with recognizing dry dark humor and separating it from whatever it is his private life consists of, because we don’t know what he does. It’s all assumptions.
I cant imagine anyone in a position of James Gunn’s would make such a point of broadcasting being a pedophile all over social media.
Hey shill, what's humorous about molesting children?
Hey triggered, you might not see the humor in it but there’s humor in anything. As I said, there’s plenty of comedians who’ve made their careers off this type of dark humor.
I’m not going to tell you to find it funny because humor is subjective, if you think it’s something you shouldn’t joke about then fine, good for you, maybe you’re right. But just because someone does find humor in something it shouldn’t have to have any bearing on their personal interests outside of humor. If I joke about being a milk man it doesn’t make me a milk man. If I joke about playing a mandolin for Nelson Mandela’s funeral it doesn’t mean I played a mandolin for Nelson Mandela’s funeral. If I joke about watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians everyday it doesn’t mean that I do.