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1. Why do celebrities allow cameras to be around to record their bad behavior? Like when Chace Crawford or whatever his name was got wasted. Maybe at 20 they don't know how to hold their alcohol, maybe they just always need the affirmation of a camera. Or maybe they're just total idiots.

   This video is no longer available, so I was blessed from enduring it.

   Posted by: Paul R | Jun 10, 2008 9:49:54 PM

   
   

2. This isn't news. Totally taken out of context. Who cares. I say faggot in private quarters.

   Posted by: ANONYMOUS | Jun 11, 2008 10:02:51 AM

   
   

3. Maybe he wants to get slapped because his movie sucks ass, and not in a good way.

   Posted by: Chad | Jun 11, 2008 9:45:50 PM

   
   

4. Tying together some of the thoughts from those who, like me, aren't thrilled with Shia's use of the word "faggot" in the way he used it - consider two aspects to the whole thing - (1) has to do not only with the use of the word as an insult, and, in today's youth culture, one of the worse insults you can use against someone, but also, (2) the fact that the entire premise of the exchange - both the verbal and the physical slap contest exchange - is that Shia is hoping that the result of calling his friend a faggot will be to get him so enraged (granted, within the context of a drunken, juvenile game) that the friend will respond with violence (that is, slapping Shia) thereby futhering the idea that if a gay guy flirts, comes on to, looks the wrong way at, or - in the specific case here - is put in the position of being perceived as a faggot - the one on the receiving end of the "insult" should respond with violence. The use of the word as a gay slur (and/or all the connections to that - using the word to mean weak, effeminate, not as good as, etc.) is bad, but the encouragement to respond to such a threat violently is even worse, and situations like this promote that perspective. From there, it's not too far to the unfortunate gay panic defense, which, as we remember Matthew Shepard and other victims of anti-gay violence, should prompt us to not just list this episode under a "(drunk) boys will be boys" tag.

   Posted by: trey | Jun 12, 2008 2:03:42 AM

   
   

5. Oh I wish we would lighten up for crissake. He's an actor; he's spent all of his young life looking for attention and being provocative. And he was kinda drunksy. And he apologized. What more do you sourpusses want? This has as NOTHING to do with Matthew Shepard,or for that matter Isiah Washington, who was stone sober and humiliating a truly gay guy on set in an ego tantrum. What a bunch of killjoys we've become. Are we such fragile little flowers? Lets resolve to toughen up our titties a bit.

   Posted by: patrick lehman | Jun 12, 2008 7:47:26 AM

   
   

6. PEOPLE LIKE PATRICK LEHMAN CRACK ME UP,THEY THINK THE FACT THAT NOW CALLING PEOPLE IN SCHOOL FAGGOTS IS AN EPIDEMIC AND FILLED WITH HATE AND THEY THINK WE SHOULD THINK ITS A CRACK UP AND IM SURE THE WORD NIGGE WOULD BE OK

   Posted by: CHAD | Jun 13, 2008 5:36:04 AM

   
   

7. it's obvious that deep thinking was not a high priority for this little episode... it's surprising that this is getting so much attention

   Posted by: patrick | Jun 18, 2008 3:53:27 PM

   
   
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