Wentz: I Kinda Wish I Was Gay

2007-12-03 by Jom | 43 Comments
Fall Out Boy singer Pete Wentz, in an interview on National Public Radio (NPR - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16699161), stated that he "sometimes wishes that he was gay" and exemplifies his firm handle on reverse discrimination.

In the interview, Wentz said the following about his gender-bending in music:

I would never come out and say I'm gay, because I'm not gay. There's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that comes from anybody constantly wishing they were in the minority and constantly wants to be fighting everybody off.

The rocker also stated that he's obsessed with make-up, especially eyeliner (or, "guy-liner," as he supposedly calls it):

I started wearing it because I felt like it tested some boundaries. Smear it. Because if you're a guy, you don't want your make-up to look perfect. My whole point is I think there's something in art where you should be making people feel uncomfortable.

Certainly people are feeling uncomfortable after these seemingly-insensitive statements.

Tagged: Fall Out Boy

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Tyler
Emeritus
December 4th 2007
7927 Comments


omgomgomgomg he is a gay lol he wears make up lol fagt

AtavanHalen
December 4th 2007
17919 Comments


This guy just loves digging holes, doesn't he.

Intransit
December 4th 2007
2797 Comments


Pete Wentz and Tom Delonge are like in a neck and neck battle to see who can be the biggest d-bag in pop-punk.

Bfhurricane
December 4th 2007
6284 Comments


Fag!

NortherlyNanook
December 4th 2007
1286 Comments


How nice! I almost wish I was gay so that I would be able to say that his comment offends me.

Oops.

6stringtaffer
December 4th 2007
25 Comments


I wish he was gay too then maybe he would get AIDS and do the world a favor.

McP3000
December 4th 2007
4121 Comments


Wentz is my new favorite person

CushMG15
December 4th 2007
1810 Comments


What a douche. You're in Fallout Boy...you're not pushing any boundaries.

DekWannaBFlea
December 4th 2007
284 Comments


Pete Wentz is such a gay activist.

StrizzMatik
December 4th 2007
4232 Comments


LOL on the pushing boundaries. Pete Wentz pushes boundaries about as much as Britney Spears succeeds at parenting/life. I dunno if he heard dudes have been wearing make-up in music for over 60+ years.

ninjuice
December 4th 2007
6760 Comments


Being in Fall Out Boy means he's gay already.
Seriously though, if I was gay I'd be offended that an idiot like Wentz said this.

cometuesday
December 4th 2007
959 Comments


Because if you're a guy, you don't want your make-up to look perfect.

Haha yeah srsly guys don't want their make-up to look too fabulous. What a fgt.

Thor
December 4th 2007
10384 Comments


There's part of me that kind of wishes I was gay, and I think that comes from anybody constantly wishing they were in the minority and constantly wants to be fighting everybody off.

What a badass non-conformist.

nick962
December 4th 2007
377 Comments


I don't like when people make themselves out to be a victim of something to create 'negative' but 'buzz-worthy' attention toward themselves, especially something as silly as this. "Reverse discrimination" is pathetic, just be who you are.

botb
December 4th 2007
19802 Comments


Didn't he say he enjoyed kissing guys?

Pete Wentz and Tom Delonge are like in a neck and neck battle to see who can be the biggest d-bag in pop-punk.


This may be one of the funniest things I've ever read on sputnik and it's stated for truth. AMEN.

Acre
December 4th 2007
847 Comments


Hehe... It's funny, because he say "gay".
As in, like, Homosexual. Hehehe... You get it, right?

...Ya, me neither.

NOTINTHEFACE
December 4th 2007
2167 Comments


What a dork. Lolz to the delonge/wentz comment.

hummer
December 4th 2007
228 Comments


He thinks this makes him some badass non conformist rebel, but in the end he's a pathetic, completely untalented piece of shit who only 14 year old girls idolize.

patrickbateman
December 4th 2007
28 Comments


I always saw Wentz as a poor man's version of Jade Puget. Eh, this is about as stupid as when Pete compared Fallout Boy to Bob Dylan saying that people back then didn't understand ol Bobby and people now don't understand Fallout Boy.

pulseczar
December 4th 2007
2385 Comments


can you say attention whore.

descendents1
December 4th 2007
702 Comments


This finally gives me a decent reason to hate this band.

BoSoxorz
December 4th 2007
56 Comments


He's an idiot.

TheStarclassicTreatment
December 4th 2007
2910 Comments


Pete is suuuuuuuuuuuuuch a cutie...

barbu
December 4th 2007
26 Comments


seems like we got a new clown in the industry
always count on wents to say/do/be something stupidThis Message Edited On 12.04.07

Steerpike
December 4th 2007
1861 Comments


It's a sad statement that we have something this tragically hilarious, and maybe two people thus far have worked up a decent joke about it.

Then again, the headline is kind of a punchline already. Does present a certain challenge, doesn't it?

Akira
December 4th 2007
328 Comments


I am a religious NPR listener and caught a bit of this story, and it was a serious "wtf" moment. Very strange report.

mattb91
December 4th 2007
68 Comments


wow what a fag. I used to love fall out boy, but then they sold out and now their bassist is a fag. I'm not sure I like this band anymore.....

Daedelus
December 4th 2007
162 Comments


*sigh*

fall out boy thread.

gay references.

attempts at comedy.

another day at sputnik.

takingbacksanjose
December 4th 2007
7 Comments


he's gay he's a faggot i knew it all along

Altmer
December 4th 2007
5714 Comments


SOP is only saying this because if he doesn't he will have to stop covering up that he is gay :#

Mr_Coffee
December 4th 2007
631 Comments


He is not gay. He's a fag.

thesystemisdown
December 4th 2007
416 Comments


Dudes Pete Wentz sucks but think about what he's saying... I used to wish I was gay because at my high school people would just casually say "gay" and "fag" about things like it was no big deal... if I was gay then maybe they'd shut the hell up and learn to speak proper fucking English without relying on inaccurate and lazy slurs. As it happens I'm not gay, but I still make a big deal of not using the word "gay" lightly because it's very obnoxious. It takes balls for a guy with a girlfriend to say he wants to be gay, I mean he's basically implying that he wishes he wasn't attracted to her.

BallsToTheWall
December 4th 2007
52578 Comments


^^ that is indeed a ballsy move. Pete Wentz... the Manny Ramirez of pop punk. Nothing this guy does suprises me anymore.

duckies
December 4th 2007
143 Comments


SHOCKING!!!

astrel
December 4th 2007
2615 Comments


*unfunny and homophobic comment* (just wanting to fit in)

AggravatedYeti
December 4th 2007
7683 Comments


Man is an idiot.

icaught fire444
December 4th 2007
622 Comments


I knew he wasn't gay! ha

Electric City
December 5th 2007
15756 Comments


Lol, timed perfectly with sputnik's brand new advertisement.

JimmyPopAli
December 5th 2007
174 Comments


He doesn't want to be gay, he wants to be a constant victim. I'm guessing he has a persecution complex about the size of Jack Chick's.

Misfit_Fiend
December 5th 2007
35 Comments


well isn't that grand.

liebherk
December 5th 2007
164 Comments


Gay kinda wishes it were Pete Wentz, too.

industrialjunkie92
December 24th 2007
167 Comments


wonderful...

peteygurl0490
April 5th 2008
1 Comments


he's not fucking gay. might be bi but not gay!



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