↵At issue: a movie crew member had wandered in on this final day of principal photography and - whether jokingly or not - called the muscle-bound movie star a homophobic epithet. Jackson had responded with barely contained fury. He threw the guy out, shouting him down with every conceivable gay slur. “You’re a punk!” Jackson finally bellowed.
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“Acting is kind of gay,” Jackson said. “It makes you soft. You got all these people combing your hair and putting a coat over your shoulders when you’re cold. I don’t want a coat over my shoulders! I’m a tough-ass [individual]!”
LA Times Piece Paints ‘Rampage’ Jackson In A Bad Light
↵↵- Via the LA Times
↵It’s never a thrilling thing to see an MMA fighter portrayed as a homophobic slur slinging bully, but that’s mostly what you get out of the piece. Rather than spend too much time talking about it I’ll just let Kid Nate of Bloody Elbow’s thoughts on this and the “Cage Fighting Killer” piece speak for me:
↵↵It’s so maddening that even after such a huge and successful event at UFC 114, the view of MMA in the “mainstream media” remains so awful.
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