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Uh oh! Could we have another Dilemma on our hands here???

Back in October, Jennifer Aniston's Break-Up co-star Vince Vaughn was dealing with controversy over a gay joke in his movie The Dilemma, and now Jen could be in a similar situation.

In her new movie Horrible Bosses, Aniston plays one of the less-than-pleasant bosses, and in a scene where her assistant gets uncomfortable because she's ONLY wearing a white lab coat, she says the following to him:

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Vanity Fair is covering all their bases.

They have apologized yet again for their writer Brett Berk's Glee article where he used an anti-gay slur.

This is what they have to say:

"With so many genuine homophobes stirring up trouble these days, the gay community doesn’t need any agita from an ally like vanityfair.com, so we are eager to set the record straight about the use of the word “fags” in Brett Berk’s latest 'Gay Guide to Glee' column. Brett, who has repeatedly referred to himself as VF.com’s 'fun and faggy editor' (a title the editors have declined to endorse), writes from a humorous and explicitly gay perspective, and his invocation of this complicated word was meant to critique the notion that the gay characters of Glee should feel obliged to 'play straight' on stage. That said, we recognize that the column caused genuine offense to many readers, and we apologize unreservedly to them."

Still seems like they may be giving excuses, but at least it feels like a genuine apology.

Do U agree?

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Vanity Fair writer Brett Berk has responded to the outrage caused by his use of an anti-gay slur in a recent article.

In the article, "The Gay Guide to Glee: Season 2, Episode 15, 'Sexy,'" Berk described the characters, Kurt and Blaine, as "f*gs."

When discussing their rendition of Neon Trees' Animal, he wrote:

"Nice singing. But how can having girls in the audience make these cartwheeling, foam-party fags straight-sexy?"

This is what he has to say today:

"I would like to apologize sincerely to anyone I offended with the use of the term 'fag' (now removed) in this 'Gay Guide to Glee' column. As an openly gay writer writing in an overtly overblown style, my intent in using the word in this offhanded way was to continue my consistent efforts to confront and challenge stereotype, to unpack the way in which language works, and to deconstruct the clever gender politics at play in the scene I described: teasing out the purposeful incongruity of this (foamy) attempt to make the conspicuously gay Dalton Warblers seem 'sexy' to females. Anyone with even a whiff of familiarity with my writing will know that I am, and have long been, a tireless agitator, here at VF.com and elsewhere, for gay rights, as well as a huge supporter of everything Glee has accomplished in advancing a meaningful dialogue about homosexuality in our popular culture—and in our youth culture in particular.

We get why he chose to use the word in his article, however, he has to remember that the word is offensive and very hurtful and shouldn't be taken lightly.

We're happy he addressed the controversy though.

What do U think of his explanation??

Tags: anti gay slur, apology, brett berk, controversy, explanation, vanity fair

Ughhh. Haven't we all learned this isn't cool???

In a recent online Vanity Fair article, "The Gay Guide to Glee: Season 2, Episode 15, 'Sexy,'" author Brett Berk chose an extremely offensive anti-gay slur to describe two of the show's openly gay characters, Kurt and Blaine.

When discussing their rendition of Neon Trees' Animal, Berk writes:

"Nice singing. But how can having girls in the audience make these cartwheeling, foam-party fags straight-sexy?"

We're very surprised that a magazine such as Vanity Fair would allow their writers to use this kind of language.

We need to make this stop!

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