I love this so much it almost hurts. In a prank suspected of Sacha Baron Cohen:
Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing.
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An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600’s reaction as the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. “It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”
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Those in attendance were told by several signs on display that they’d be filmed, Holland said, and signed waivers before the event. Convention center sales director Karin Hobbs declined to name the event’s sponsor Monday.
The jarring turn of narrative from what the audience expected to what it actually saw had to be surreal.
Yeah right. Cohen was not behind this. He doesn’t put himself in any situations where he’s going to get his ass kicked (like, for example, when John Stossel got bitch slapped for asking that wrestler if pro wresling is fake. Now that’s putting it on the line).
You saw a bit of danger in Borat when he was in the NYC Subway, and people were going to kick his ass. He got out of NYC pretty damn fast, to the heartland, where people are a little more polite than New Yorkers.
Or maybe this stunt was him. He wasn’t there, right? Send his flunkies in there for him, and they all get killed when they start a riot.
See, the guys that did it were in the cage…
Little did anyone notice as they were drinking their beers that the cage locked from the INSIDE…keeping them safe.
However, those poor, poor cameramen!
Why would you post this homophobic bit of trash. This is very disrespectful. I’d urge you to remove this post as I find it hurtful, though I support your right to leave it as free speech.
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//He doesn’t put himself in any situations where he’s going to get his ass kicked//
Buzzcut, have you seen the film clips from when he went to the rodeo in Salem, VA?
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/xp-16655
I used to live in Salem. If that’s not putting yourself into harm’s way, I don’t know what is.
And there’s nothing homoerotic about REGULAR cage fighting?
I have to say the best Borat moment was when he was at the newscast and butted in on the waeterman’s report. Although that scene was completely out of context, as it happened in Mississippi and the next scene was in Virginia.
Is the lavender green guy above joking? I hope so.
The stunt doesn’t help much of anything – enflames people’s homophobia, and potentially reinforces a lot of negativity towards gay people. It also undermines a truth that being gay is not just about the sex, which is one of those key things that helps opens people’s minds, rather than closing them.
They guys pulling the stunt may have gotten a lot of laughs, but I worry about the LGBT person who has an unsuspecting run in with an audience member later on…
The key to figuring out who produced this depends on the cameras used. If they were using expensive digital cameras look for the next Cohen movie. If they were $1000 or less models available at the local big box, it’s something for YouTube.
It does sound like it could make for some hilarious viewing one of these days.
Interesting. Whomever came up with this must have been in Vegas recently. Cirque du Soleil has a show with exactly this act in it. I mean, it’s dancing and acrobatics, but they have two guys in a cage going through some of the silly motions of ‘pro wrestling’, and they end up giving each other a big, deep french kiss. It was an awesome spectacle- all these tourists really getting into the girl-on-girl stuff of the same stripe, but a hush then a groan when the guys did their thing. I laughed my ass off.
As between me and you, it’s not so much a free speech right as a property right. Free speech protections primarily protect a speaker from government action.
In any case, I’m not going to argue that the gay cage match was classy or even respectful of gays. But, I think it’s abundantly clear that the butt of this particular joke are the subset of cage match attendees who happen to be raging homophobes. (I suspect without knowing that this subset is a large portion of the whole.)
I fully admit having a juvenile sense of humor. But I have this vision of the dawning horror of a guy who is totally not gay, because being gay is totally un-Biblical and shit, who just likes to see two other totally not gay guys rolling around in a cage as he realizes that maybe something gay is going on. And it cracks me up.
I just hope there are better ways to get your kicks than at the expense of an oppressed minority community. I usually respect your ideas and it surprises me that you included this. Again, I support whatever right you want to claim to keep this posted, but I’m hoping to appeal to your sense of dignity to not continue promoting the disrespect of the ilgbtq community.
Is it disrespect? I wrote about the thing in Vegas, and that I laughed my ass off. It wasn’t at the men kissing. It was at the double-standard of the audience.
I thought there was great value in that. Some people in that audience were going to see their double standard. Obviously, not everyone would. It came at them in a way they couldn’t avoid, and I think that’s a good thing, because there are a lot of people in this world who a) pretend that some things don’t exist, and b) when they consider those things, they assume the world would end if they did… and they find out the world did not end, and maybe, just maybe, we can all coexist.
I’m with Steph on this. It’s poking people just to see them jump – which is different from poking people to make them aware of something. I’m not convinced that a single person in the audience is going to go home and do some deep thinking on why they reacted the way they did. Now, the people who end up *seeing* a video of it might get it, but it’s just too close to Bear Bating for me.
Bear Baiting?
Sorry, got distracted by the spelling issue and didn’t circle back to close up my comment. With bear baiting all you end up with is an enraged bear…
So it’s “homophobic” to be uncomfortable seeing “two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other,”?
Would it have been any less disturbing if it had been a guy and a girl?
Just to be clear, what does the “ilgbtq community” object to in the OP? The fraudulent act itself, or that the post references it?
oh noo… the world has stopped spinning… I agree with Buzzcut on something! (grin) If I were there to see wrestling (next to zero chance, for the record), the actions of the actors (be they of any assorted combination) would have made me go “Ewww” – PDAs not being high on my list. Note: “Eww” is a far cry from “enraged.”
Gee, why do I suspect that two women going through the same motions would not have “enraged” the crowd.
To be honest, I hope to see this in the next movie.. while it can reinforce the view that being gay is all about sex.. isn’t that really the only thing that enrages the homophobes? They don’t seem to much care (or even notice) when I pay my taxes, take care of my house or do a good job at my work.. just that I MIGHT be having unrestricted HOMO-sex. (By the way, they way overestimate the percentage/numbers.. unless I am a way under-performing member, so to speak, of the community.)
speaking of- i watch the fights on spike every now and then. it makes me sick- no boxing. no HS /college quality wrestling, no marine/airborne ranger- kick their ass into the mud in 30 seconds hand to hand. it usually ends up like a gay prison bitch fight- nut to butt, or so on. I’m no expert in hnad to hand/martial arts, and am too old to do the gladiator battles- takes too long to heal anymore- but you ould think if these guys were going to realy fight, that any army /marine/special force unit soulcd enter a platoon, and clean up on the cash, and trophys.
sure it hurts- same as WWf, i’m just saying- i want my moneys worth. and i cant fight- i know a few moves- enough to save my ass, and do enough damage to escape with my ass, and leave a few scratches and dents- hate the 2 weeks afterwards- pain, and suffering. owucHH!