Odell Beckham Jr. vs. Toxic Black Masculinity

If Odell Beckham looked like this....black gay dudes would have *crickets* and *shrugs* for days...

 

Black men have allowed themselves to be painted in narrow little box and much of the time we do it to ourselves. Full disclosure I have joked on CA about Odell Beckham being "suspect" but that's was just me being a jerk, as I often am. However all jokes aside considering OBJ is from a different generation than me. A lot of millennial bruthas aren't as bound to hypermasculine tough guy image as dudes from my generation and that's overall a good thing. There's nothing wrong with Odell dancing and having a good time. That doesn't make him gay. But even if he is gay, which I doubt he is, being gay is not a crime. It's funny how the black community puts so much emphasis on finding out who is gay. I've said this before and I'll say it again in the black community you can be drug dealer, a thief, a murderer, a rapist, even a child molester *cough* R. Kelly *cough* and people will still love you. Just don't be gay. That's the worst possible thing for a black man to be.....at least that's what many black people think.

 

Believe it or not I would totally date this brutha.

 

I'm sick of this shit, honestly, and I hope he isn't gay. Black people worry about the dumbest shit.

However, having a girl on his arms after these rumors is too soon, too much of a publicity stunt/cover up, so I hope he just chills and does him.
But you know who would be a dope partner for him? Keke Palmer. She's silly and a little immature (on her off time) like him.

 

Well...maybe.... Ok you right. You right. Lol

 

I was thinking the same thing. If OBJ was white he wouldn't be considered gay. The black community is so obsessed with trying to out people. It's like we really have a hard time believing that one of our own is gay still.

 

People are so corny dude...I'm so tired of hearing about this...OBJ can do wtf he wants...I hope he's not gay either...I would hate for him to give all of those people the satisfaction...black men are painted a very narrow box...your either a thug (if you wear baggy clothes and talk a certain), an Uncle Tom (if you speak correct English and your clothes fit) or your gay...there's no in between for us and it's kind of unfortunate...I appreciate that he sort of breaks the mold of what we usually see from NFL players, which is these hyper masculine dudes with no personality and a scowl...

 

So let me take it a couple of steps further...
If Odell Beckham is/was seen looking "suspect" with a white dude or white girl, black gay dudes would have not only raked him over the coals but stated in regards to the homophobic slurs allegations "oh well, that's what you get for dating them white folks."


with a side of and two tablespoons of *crickets* and *shrugs*

 

Wrong forum bud.

 

How you figure?

 

Not True. Young Thug looks worse than this dude and and black gay dudes have been after him since he hit the scene.

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Yeah, Ocktavia, stop being messy

 

I don't believe that OBJ is gay but black people do it to themselves with the fragility behind the constructs of masculinity. If OBJ was white or Latino, people wouldn't care and they would just laugh it off. Those that are accusing him of being gay are really just black people.

 

Sigh.. typical and expected but no worries...

This is a topic of conversation for a reason. If the root of the topic you're bringing fourth is not understood, you’re just being reactionary to the hype without really examining the issue. You know how I didn't do with the article that ‘featured’ Yusaf Mack towards the end? AND my reaction has nothing to do with Beckham but the ni@@as who really are only following this story because they view Odell as thirst trap pic fodder or bea. This is in the same vein how I don’t “dislike” Beyonce, I’m just not a follower of her music nor do I care for the stans who look at you with a side eye if you’re not a gay stan of hers …it’s no difference for me in this instance.

I’m able to separate the majority of the issues surrounding this and not just lump them together for gay click bait. Like most articles I’ve read about this on gay websites they are all in the same one dimensional theme jumping on the victim bandwagon which is masculine = bad, non-masculine leaning = victim. I got my own mind…so I’m good.

And to think this is coming from some who had a far worse reaction to Tre Melvin and Frank Ocean. Just do you..

 

Nope not at all...maybe you didnt read. My issue isnt fully with Odell but the stans who feel he can do no wrong. No hypocrisy here dude.

 

Sigh... The topic is fine however its reactionary but yet again, just like the "Friends with Ex's" topic what's the point of conversation if minds are already made up? I'm learning that lesson not just with gay folk, gay feminist, white feminist and white conservatives, racism deniers and cop apologists on social media but here also. I'm good.

 

Again information, substance or logic is not relevant when minds are made up. If that was the case many people would not support Trump if they absorbed facts or listened to other logic when presented.

The majority of gays was not checking for the NFL or Odell outside of eye candy thirst trap fodder. ONLY when allegations of "homophobic slurs" came out in the media AFTER (days later) Odell's fuked up actions on the field; gays jumped all over it to speak up and out against homophobia and hyper-masculinity (typical and understandable of the gay blogosphere). No one asked ANY questions but simply took the "homophobic slurs" and Odell supporters with face value.

Having run this website for years, of all people you should know how agenda driven gays can be once something is in their cross hairs...seriously dude? Again the subject matter is fine and needed; however what is being presented is from a narrow gay lens focused on demonizing masculinity. Whomever can be fine with that; however I choose not to be. I can do that right?

 

shots fired!!! LOL

 

@ockydub I'll respond properly this time.

The man is good looking but I'm not sweating the nigga like that, it's all jokes. If he wasn't attractive I'd still question why do people care so much about his sexuality. This isn't from a gay perspective, I'm just a regular person wondering why do our people care so much about nonsense like this. Put your energy into something else.

Why must I be an avid NFL fan in order to have any say in this? It doesn't matter if I follow NFL or not he makes headlines, so I see his ass everywhere on my timeline and news feeds just like everyone else and I have the right to comment. I see my facebook friends and relatives sharing articles from Bossip and Mediatakeout that have an agenda of outing or branding every heterosexual Black male as gay. Just nitpicking every fucking thing and calling it gay. Why do black people, gay or straight, want everybody to be gay so bad? That's my issue. That's a hit to their sexuality and masculinity. But people eat that shit up, posting "faggot this, faggot that", "agenda!", "Gay EPIDEMIC" without reading, doing research or realizing that its all fake/click bait. I'm talking heterosexuals that don't even follow football themselves but have so much to say about this Odelll shit. But if you want my gay ass to butt out then I gotcha.

Nothing Odell does is "gay" and "effeminate" to me. I don't even know what masculine or feminine is anymore at this point (I'm dead ass). I'm also not seeing the "demonizing masculinity" from gays defending Odell either, can you explain further?

And as for this, I see what you were doing here but I can only speak for myself and say that I don't give a shit. I'm not bothered by rich black men or athletes that date or hang out with white people. I just figured that most CA members here don't really care about that stuff either, so my previous reply was basically: "go take that up with those other gays." [that sounds arrogant but yeah...]

 

My point is still the same as explained with the very last reply I typed above. The game two sundays ago is the root or basis for the whole controversy. You can have your opinion but like with many gay bloggers who are writing these essays about "hyper-masculinity" and the parallels of Odell, are being reactionary when they don't have a clue on how it started. For many gay bloggers and many gays...the PR diversion worked on them. However for a lot of sports followers (gay and st8) or people who saw and followed this controversy from its origins, easily saw through this almost week long foolishness that Odell started.

The actual topic is needed and valued (you know because I have discussed it numerous times on Cypher Ave); however using the NFL and Odell's umprofessionalism as the jump off is highly misguided (to me) and as with a lot of topics, simply muddies up the waters with lack of clarity.

 

There are literally two conversations going on here. Im clear with my outlook on EACH of the topics that have haphazardly been lumped up into this big ball of fuckeries.

If you don't know the origin, how can one properly make and present a full thoughtful opinion? I'm good bro.

 

We get what u were goin for, but u cant be using innocent folks as examples mofo!

 

Yall nigras be goin in lolol

 

I just love how the kid is doin him, n genuinely loves bein a ham (doesnt stand for hot azz mess, btw). I think its a great thing that he's enjoying a life that many guys would kill for. Not to mention, the kid has on field receipts.