Reply #8: Mark Lund is such a jerk. Legend in his own mind. [View All]

[Berry Cool]

No one would be paying any attention to him (he had no career of any note in competitive skating) if he hadn't begun a skating magazine in which most of the pictures are shots of him hobnobbing with skaters at various parties.

Johnny Weir is no more obligated to come out of the closet for the gay community than anyone else is who isn't ready. Nothing has been said about him that wasn't said about Rudy Galindo years ago, and he too was outed against his will. What it comes down to is, nobody is obligated to be anybody else's poster boy to make them feel better about themselves.

Oh, and I add: I am so sick of all this garbage about who skates with a "masculine" style and who doesn't. Who gives a crap? I'd rather see someone who can skate with feeling and expression to the music than some stiff robot who makes everyone think he's "macho." That was the problem for most of Elvis Stojko's career. It was always about how UN-feminine he was. Heaven forbid anyone should think he was sensitive or expressive! That was girlie-man stuff!