A picture is worth a thousand words. And sometimes a lot of those words are homophobic.
Last week, Vanity Fair published an interview with actor Michael B. Jordan and director Ryan Coogler. They've collaborated on two films now — Creed and Fruitvale Station. But, as an official picture of Jordan and Coogler from the Vanity Fair interview circulated online, a lot of disparaging remarks followed.
Here's the photo in question:
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The image of Jordan with his hand on Coogler's head drew crude sexual and homophobic remarks from commenters on more than one Facebook page. When celebrity gossip blogger B. Scott, who runs LoveBScott, posted it on his Facebook, it garnered almost 300 comments, many of them negative.
Most spoke about their problem with the pose, saying the pose seemed emasculating and effeminate.
"No self respecting heterosexual males pose like this naturally," one commenter wrote.
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Some other commenters were quick to clap back.
This shows the ignorance of some people...how dumb can you get. It's not even a sexually suggestive photo. If it was 2 women, nothing would be said.
Sporting players; often deemed 'height of masculinity', embrace each other similarly on field all the time. Don't these people have better things to spend their time doing?
Sporting players; often deemed 'height of masculinity', embrace each other similarly on field all the time. Don't these people have better things to spend their time doing?
No these are the idiots that live off of Food Stamps and Well Fare. I hate people sometime.
They do look like brothers. I'm not surprised by the comments...