Schlopy's (controversial) IG Post

NS is officially TMZ. Get the fuck out of here

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As a professional athlete you are used as marketing. The more valuable you are to a company the more money you will receive. It came off in my opinion a little salty that Gus will now have a much larger market share to sponsors with his puppies and being gay. Do I think that was Gus's intention? Fuck no. But I can easily see how Schlopy could get jealous.

That being said, look at any gay athlete. Chances are they have a few articles written about them. It's pretty hard to be an olympic silver medalist and an in the closet gay and not receive some form of media attention when coming out. Or maybe ESPN put the idea to Gus. But at the end of the day don't take Scholpy words out of context and make him sound like he is homophobic, because I've met Schlopy and he is a genuinely nice bloke and just wants to be friendly to everyone

HC__skierThere was a skier who died recently and in one of the threads I said he skied sloppily.

(in fact, to me he looked like a flying bowl of spaghetti)

I ended up with a note from the head mod, and a lot of downvotes. Words can hurt, but I think also people choose to stir up conflict just for the sake of conflict - no matter how diplomatic or sensitive you are -- in fact the more you are diplomatic, the more people will feed off that.

Also, I think sometimes controversial messages should just be stated outright.

"I think the kid skied real sloppily. The end."

"I'm 101% homosexual. Let's move on."

"I do not like how you used your coming out to build yourself up. So what."

So the idea is to remove the fluff language around it, to limit the ensuing debate.

Get the fuck out of here with that shit dude. You must be one pathetic loser. I can't imagine why you would have made those comments. It wasn't the time, nor the place.

THEDIRTYBUBBLEI can't imagine why you would have made those comments. It wasn't the time, nor the place.

I agree with you that the comments were inappropriate in that thread, and that's why they were both deleted (the 2nd on my request) and I stopped commenting in that thread (because I wanted to) (although there were a few threads running about him.) I also offered to apologize via PM with those that got hurt (because I thought that was right.)

But it doesn't change the fact of what I thought of his skiing, though.

Schlopy just doesn't get it.

"I know it must have been tough and we all fight our own battles."

Sure, "we all fight our own battles," whatever that means, but we don't all live in the closet for the first ~20 years of our life. Schlopy clearly doesn't understand how tough that is. I don't either, not first hand, but my friend came out at 26, and his story was a punch to the gut. I knew there was something wrong in his life, but I had no clue he was gay. He put so much effort into passing that it worked. I didn't understand how profoundly miserable he was, even when accomplishing great things and appearing happy. When he came out, he shed all of that misery. It was beautiful. It made me incredibly happy. But it was also a punch to the gut to find out that a close friend had been deeply miserable all these years, at times suicidal, and that he had struggled pretty much all his life unnecessarily. It was also rough to here the specific details. Trying to come out in high school, but then going back into the closet when he was met with ridicule. Trying to come out in college, but not finding enough support in the eight students in the gay-straight alliance at his rural college.

Which bring me to this:

"We all knew ... ha ha"

What a piece of shit. You are not this guy's friend. You're his tormenter. You and your friends knew Gus was gay, and you didn't do shit to help him come out. And all you can do now is laugh at the fact that you knew his painful secret all along.

And what a cowardly, jealous little hater doing this on Instagram, pretending to be Gus's friend and an LGBT ally.