So, on Wednesday -- five days after Tyler Clementi's suicide after he was outed by a college roommate -- rapper 50 Cent posted the following on his Twitter feed:

“If you a man and your over 25 and you don’t eat pu**y just kill your self damn it. The world will be a better place. Lol.”

He doesn't seem to quite get why this may have been an objectionable comment.

(This post originally appeared on

fandom_wank by mistake largely because of wanka ignorance. I thank you for your patience.)

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rewil
2010-10-03 05:13 pm UTC (link)

Weird. It reads more like a "(straight) men with hangups about cunnilingus: Get over it" joke more than anything.

I know there's an unfortunate-to-say-the-least history with 50 Cent remarks, but the article doesn't mention that possibility at all — even to go into detail why that reading would be wrong and discredit it — and they have much more room for explanations and nuance than a 140-character tweet.

Titling it "50 Cent Tells Gays To Commit Suicide" seems misleading. But then, to be fair, how many clicks would "50 Cent Makes Poorly Timed Heteronormative Tweet" generate?

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	skarrow 2010-10-03 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	The joke was obviously about oral sex and just happened to be heteronormative, but his responses to it were fairly crappy and awkward. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snarkhunter 2010-10-05 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	That's how I read it, but it's still a shitty thing to say. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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