WTF: John Mayer Gets Mad Creeptastical With Playboy Magazine
I get that it's a periodical dedicated to pornography and the proclivities of the heterosexual male. Totally understand that. But what shit was John Mayer ON when he gave this bizarre, narcissistic, misogynic, N-word dropping, TOO-MUCH-INFORMATION Q & A to Playboy?
For those who don't have time to read the whole thing ... here's the Cliff Notes version:
On "entertaining" one self:
I’m a self-soother. The Internet, DVR, Netflix, Twitter—all these things are moments in time throughout your day when you’re able to soothe yourself. We have an autonomy of comfort and pleasure. By the way, pornography? It’s a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a Pandora’s box of visuals. There have probably been days when I saw 300 vaginas before I got out of bed.
On "self-love:"
PLAYBOY: Masturbation for you is as good as sex?
MAYER: Absolutely, because during sex, I’m just going to run a filmstrip. I’m still masturbating. That’s what you do when you’re 30, 31, 32. This is my problem now: Rather than meet somebody new, I would rather go home and replay the amazing experiences I’ve already had.
PLAYBOY: You’d rather jerk off to an ex-girlfriend than meet someone new?
MAYER: Yeah. What that explains is that I’m more comfortable in my imagination than I am in actual human discovery. The best days of my life are when I’ve dreamed about a sexual encounter with someone I’ve already been with. When that happens, I cannot lay off myself.
On having a "hood pass:"
Someone asked me the other day, “What does it feel like now to have a hood pass?” And by the way, it’s sort of a contradiction in terms, because if you really had a hood pass, you could call it a nigger pass. Why are you pulling a punch and calling it a hood pass if you really have a hood pass? But I said, “I can’t really have a hood pass. I’ve never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, ‘We’re full.’"
On how he's kind of like a black person -- because he suffers sometimes:
What is being black? It’s making the most of your life, not taking a single moment for granted. Taking something that’s seen as a struggle and making it work for you, or you’ll die inside. Not to say that my struggle is like the collective struggle of black America. But maybe my struggle is similar to one black dude’s.
On how his penis feels about black women:
I don’t think I open myself to it. My dick is sort of like a white supremacist. I’ve got a Benetton heart and a fuckin’ David Duke cock. I’m going to start dating separately from my dick.
On the attractiveness of black women:
I always thought Holly Robinson Peete was gorgeous. Every white dude loved Hilary from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. And Kerry Washington. She’s superhot, and she’s also white-girl crazy. Kerry Washington would break your heart like a white girl. Just all of a sudden she’d be like, “Yeah, I sucked his dick. Whatever.” And you’d be like, “What? We weren’t talking about that.”
On Jessica Simpson:
MAYER: That girl, for me, is a drug. And drugs aren’t good for you if you do lots of them. Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me.
PLAYBOY: You were addicted to Jessica Simpson?
MAYER: Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.
PLAYBOY: But before you dated her you thought of yourself as the kind of guy who would never date Jessica Simpson.
MAYER: That’s correct. There are people in the world who have the power to change our values. Have you ever been with a girl who made you want to quit the rest of your life? Did youever say, “I want to quit my life and just fuckin’ snort you? If you charged me $10,000 to fuck you, I would start selling all my shit just to keep fucking you.”
On "whores:"
I feel like women are getting their comeuppance against men now. I hear about man-whores more than I hear about whores. When women are whorish, they’re owning their sexuality. When men are whorish, they’re disgusting beasts. I think they’re paying us back for a double standard that’s lasted for a hundred years.
Some quick observations:
1. Before we get our collective panties in a wad over his penis' disinterest in black women, let's remember that people are attracted to whatever they are attracted to. Mayer's mistake was he phrased it in the most ridiculous, assholey way possible. A lot of people will say, "I only find blah blah blah attractive." But, seriously, to compare your penis to David Duke? David Duke wants to either string me up a tree or send me back to the fields. I didn't know your dick belonged to the Klan. NOT FUNNY. The Klan is NEVER FUNNY. They KILL PEOPLE. So unless John's penis is a murderous racist, that was a case of him trying waaaay to hard to be clever. Just say, "I find some black women attractive, but I've never seriously dated any." HOW HARD IS THAT? But nooooo. You had to inject Dicky McKlansman into the conversation.
2. My GOD, does he hate women. I mean, really. Why would you talk about women in this manner? Again. Perfectly understandable to be all "I luvs da pussy" when talking to a porno mag geared towards straight men, but what was up with going on and on about masturbation and how he actually PREFERS it to sex with a woman? Most men jacking off to Playboy are doing it as a substitute for actual sex with human beings. While I'm sure there are men who prefer masturbation to sex, I'm going to go out on a limb as say those mfers are in the minority. Given a choice between actually getting laid and just staring at a photo of a va-jay-jay, 9-out-of-10 would go for getting laid.
3. Also, what was up with all the yakking about Jessica Simpson and "Privacy Queen" Jennifer Aniston? What happened to NOT kissing/fucking-and-telling? Throughout the interview he talks about the paparazzi and loving Jen so much that he wants to respect her privacy, yet he talks about her throughout the interview?
4. While I realize that there will always be some women who will date Mayer despite this crazy ass, self-love obsessed, questionable interview, don't expect the rest of us to feel sorry for you when he gets all skevy on your ass. He pretty much spells it out in this interview that he's 32 (which is really more like 12) and that he would rather masturbate to a photo of Jessica Simpson in mom jeans that meet your parents. So YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
5. Who gave John Mayer this thing called a "hood pass?" Dave Chappelle? I don't remember us having a vote. It's not like the dude is Robin Thicke or Robert DeNiro. Of course if you HAVE such a thing as any sort of "pass" with black people you would never actually SAY you have a pass. Black people LOVE them some Bobby DeNiro but Bobby DeNiro isn't dropping the N-word in casual-fucking-conversation. Even Justin Timberlake, who is kind of always on this love you/hate you bubble with black people has enough sense not to ever say he's got a pass of any kind no matter how far Timberland is crawled up his ass.
6. If you see Kerry Washington and her crew in the club and they KNIFE YO ASS, don't be surprised. If I was Kerry I would be all kinds of "Get my name out of your mouth, son." And she's "white girl crazy?" What does that even MEAN!
Conclusion: John Mayer had to be high because I read that WHOLE INTERVIEW and he sounded like he was suffering from a severe lack of an internal editor. It's no excuse, but he should probably try it anyway just in case Rev. Al shows up wanting some kind of apology.
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^^^^^ dude, you're on that purp
i'd drink kerry washington's bathwater
One of the issues here is when non-Black people think ignant rappers rep the entire Black race. On another site that has the full rambling mess (i won't call it an interview), he says at one point "...that's why Black people love me". NO DOOFUS -That's why a bunch of stupid rappers hang out with your big, ugly jughead ass-it has nothing to do with Black people as a whole. And that's actually where the question about Black women being attracted to him came from, after he said that bs about all blacks loving him. I really wish someone would start a site about rebuttals to the daily doses of stupidity we are getting nowadays, so when a Blagovich says he is Blacker cause he shined shoes at one point, we could all tell him to sit his ass down. Same with "others" who want to believe all Black people use the n word. I would attempt it but i'm not trying to make my blood pressure higher than it is.
and yeah, i would not blame Ms. Washington if she called that cave dweller out. And ?uestlove from the Roots had the nerve to twitter some nonsense about how its a shame mayer is dickkked cause Black women would be mayer's #1 fans and would "do him in a minute". I'm like, cool, let's all remember that next timie there's a mainstream comment about how all BM are thugged out, illiterate, hypersexed, etc.
I'm back at sexual napalm.
So I went to UrbanDictionary to figure out what a "hood pass" was. Didn't even know that I was born with the pseudo-privilege of a ghetto pass. Thanks for the, ahem, enlightenment Dickey McKlansman.
This story's ridiculous. I mean WHAT does he sing again?
As a trained journalist, I'm utterly fascinated that the reporter kinda just dragged him down Stupid Lane. Just reading this ish, you know Mayer's high. Don't know whether to shake the reporter's hand or not.
As absolutely insane it is, dude is extremely honest. He's also a consistant douche-bag. I admire that. I don't think he's a racist or even sexist, he's just not as Bill Maher says "saying things to make women smile and nod" He'll never get a warm "AWWWWW" from the audience on The View from saying things like this but his views on sex in the context of the male psyche and relating to women are really on point.
Wow!!!! Two snaps & an Unfollow! A Hot Mess!
Never heard of this dude.
Now I know he's an asshole.
Good to know.
Carry on...
Well, shit! I liked John Mayer. Do I still get to love the song "Daughters"? How did this jerk write such a beautiful and serious song? Where did he get the emotional maturity to write "Gravity" ? I hate when this happens. It's like Michael Richards all over again. I loved Kramer on Seinfeld!
Shit, shit, shit! I blame Jennifer Aniston. All of her exes end up being annoying douchebags.
Black women are always saying how they'd never date or sleep with a white guy or even a light skinned black guy for that matter. They want that "Amistad" "GIVE US FREE" in their bed. Does that mean they have "Marcus Garvey" Vaginas? LOL.
If a black man gave an interview where he claimed to only be attracted to (stereotypical) thick black women with natural kinky hair, big lips, a wide nose, a book shelf booty and deep brown skin, would that make him racist?
I'm disappointed because I actually liked his music and I actually thought that he was cool up until he started talking about Jennifer A. after they broke up. I'm not a fan of hers, but there is such a thing as having diarrhea of the mouth and this guy has a bad case of it. He's either high, stupid or mentally ill-- I'm thinking all of the above. The fact that he doesn't like BW is definitely not our loss although I think he's pretty much slept with every White actress there is. But that is one White boy they can just keep. I'm confused about why he even through Kerry, Holly or Karyn Parsons into it. He could have just not commented at all. The article only proves that his ego is bigger than his capacity for having any common sense.
I'm disappointed because I actually liked his music and I actually thought that he was cool up until he started talking about Jennifer A. after they broke up. I'm not a fan of hers, but there is such a thing as having diarrhea of the mouth and this guy has a bad case of it. He's either high, stupid or mentally ill-- I'm thinking all of the above. The fact that he doesn't like BW is definitely not our loss although I think he's pretty much slept with every White actress there is. But that is one White boy they can just keep, really. I'm confused about why he even threw Kerry, Holly or Karyn Parsons into it. He could have just not commented at all. The article only proves that his ego is bigger than his capacity for having any common sense.
1. I agree with the post where no one seems to question the suspect randomness of the question "Do black women throw themselves at you?"
2. Reading the article, I don't think he meant to put black women down---he was simply answering the question---in a JACKED UP way, and then trying to clarify it by saying he should start considering being open to it. But again, why the question at all? Carrie Prejean got set up in the same way methinks--- the question had no place at all. Agenda??
3. Lastly, I couldn't work myself up to get racially offended (I'm a BW). Why?? Just LOOK at himmmmm. Really. A).Is he a man that ANY emotionally intelligent woman would want? Any self-esteem or self-preservation instincts would have to be missing or discarded in order want to be with or be validated by this guy. B). Any man who throws women in front of a train (not under the bus) in the way he did with Jessica Simpson and Kerry Washington cannot be even considered as a potential date or mate. Not complimentary at all.
Last: Come on, LOOOK at himmmm (disbelieving whine). Looks aren't everything, but if I was to answer the question in the way he did....I would at LEAST MAKE SURE I COULD EVEN CALL IT.
Dude is an arrogant jerk. Plain and simple.
WHITE SUPREMACY AT IT'S FINEST ... I was trying to find a reason to like JM and just when I relaxed my views on him - I hear of this ... to bad cuz he probably knows once you go black you never go back and is just trying to ruin as many white women as possible until he gets to that point in his desires ... The rate he is going he will be joining the Republican party and running with Sarah Palin ...
SEXISM
CLASSISM
RACISM
AT IT'S FINEST HOUR OF INFLUENCING ANOTHER GENERATION ON HOW IT'S DONE. DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE'S PREFERENCE IS WHEN ALL WOMEN ARE TREATED LIKE SEX OBJECTS ... HE DROPPED JESSICA AND JENNIFER CUZ HE COULD NOT SUSTAIN ANY OTHER TYPE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH THEM BUT SEX AND THAT WAS GETTING OLD SO HE WOULD RATHER BE THE SEXUAL CONQUEROR AND NOT THE MAN THOSE WOMEN DESERVE. HIS RESPONSE ABOUT BLACK WOMEN - IN PARTICULAR KERRY WASHINGTON [WHO IS A SELF-PROFESSED WHITE MALE WHORE MONGER] HE WAS SAYING BLACK WOMEN DON'T PLAY THAT GAME VERY WELL AND SHE WOULD DO HIM IN BEFORE HE GOT TO DO HER. WHITE WOMEN ARE STILL COMPARABLY EASY TO HAVE A BANG-UP GOOD TIME WITH NO OTHER RESPONSIBILITY TO THEM ... BLACK WOMEN ARE MORE DELICATE IN THEIR STRENGTH OF NOT LETTING ANYBODY LEAD THEM INTO MAJOR RELATIONSHIP WITHOUT 100% COMMITMENT - WHETHER FOR AN ARRANGED THING OR MORE PERMANENT ... JOHN SOUNDS LIKE HE WILL HAVE ANOTHER CAREER ALREADY AND WAITING FOR HIM TO WRITE - DIRECT - ACT IN - PRODUCE AND RECORD THE MUSICAL SCORE ... THIS RUINS HIS CHANCES OF ROCKING TAYLOR SWIFTS WORLD ... HE IS A KISS AND TELLER ALL THE WAY AND THE NEXT SCUMMY WHITE CHICK WHO GETS WITH HIM IS THE SAME ...
I was actually getting my Chocolate Rain fix for the morining. No joke. John Mayer did a Chocolate Rain remix so I 'tubed it next. Lo and behold there was this clip of Mayer with Kanye West. You get the idea that his sense of humor is simply odd. He may have been joking.
Just sayin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_z-shZL1KU&feature=related
yes he's a dumb ass...and although it might not apply to K Washington, we all knew what he meant by "white girl crazy:...lmao
ps, im over this mythical "hood pass" issued by some black monolithic group ish.
Black women are always saying how they’d never date or sleep with a white guy or even a light skinned black guy for that matter. They want that “Amistad” “GIVE US FREE” in their bed. Does that mean they have “Marcus Garvey” Vaginas? LOL.
And again -- which black women are you talking about? What subgroup? What ethnicity? (No, black is not an ethnicity, it is a race, which is different.) What country? What area? Have you done a poll, or is this hearsay you’ve overheard amongst your friends and peers who do not actually constitute the entire universe? I can quote my friends too, but that doesn’t make it a general fact. This does not constitute actual evidence. My last bf was a Polish Catholic, but you do not hear me claiming my experience as the experience of “black women.” Not. A. Monolith. We do not have a Hive Mind.
If a black man gave an interview where he claimed to only be attracted to (stereotypical) thick black women with natural kinky hair, big lips, a wide nose, a book shelf booty and deep brown skin, would that make him racist?
A liar, more likely. Or someone who had made a conscious choice, because you’re postulating an extremely false equivalence: Society does not tend to condition us this way. When non-black standards and images of beauty are touted everywhere, you have to work at finding “nonstandards” attractive, and even if you naturally do, there are messages all around you telling you to stop and that you’re wrong. Humans are hard-wired to find other people who look like them attractive in order to pass on that DNA, but when one group is a minority in a dominant culture, this natural instinct is pushed around and shaped by the standards of he dominant culture. It is not hard mental work, in U.S. culture, to find blondes attractive. It is, however, work to remind yourself that you’re SUPPOSED to like yourself. It’s self-esteem, not racism. The two situations are so far from equal or comparable that it’s kind of hilarious. But I think deep down you knew that already.
@aldenst, No, actually I don't know what he meant. Care to clarify for those of us who have no idea?
I think the politicians, athletes and celebrities have a secret contest going on. Who can say and/or do the craziest, wackiest thing to stay in the press and/or ruin one's career. So far it's a tie between Tiger Woods and John Edwards, with the athletes who like to carry and shoot guns for no apparent reason, running a close second.
Let's be honest. If John Mayer was into black women, the lline would be extremely long. A whole ot of sisters love white boys. And that is exactly what John Mayer is! A white boy.
Sooooo many things wrong with that interview it would take me all day to touch on every single thing. But one thing I find disturbing is that the "hood" or a ghetto mentality is always associated with the entire black population. As if we all live in the ghetto, have limited experiences outside of the ghetto and speak, dress, act or live like we live in the hood. So a "hood pass" translates into being accepted by all black people? Just because you hang with a bunch of rappers and were featured on a few of their songs does not mean that the majority of black people like you. I am sooo tire of black, white and pretty much all races within this country making the assumption that if you are black, the ghetto is an integral part of you life. In their eyes, no matter how successful, intelligent or respectable a person you are, you are still low-class, because in my opinion that is what being "hood" is. We need to get it out of our heads that blackness=ghetto/hood.
Just the ammo I need to get my daughter to stop listening to this ghastly white desperate to be relevant individual.
"BLACK WOMEN ARE MORE DELICATE IN THEIR STRENGTH OF NOT LETTING ANYBODY LEAD THEM INTO MAJOR RELATIONSHIP WITHOUT 100% COMMITMENT"
LMAO, REALLY?????
@Mac
I cannot even count the number of times that I have heard black women make similar statements. Yes black women don't share one mind, I never said that, I was just alluding to the hipocracy of the black community's tendency to hold non whites to standards that they themselves fall short of. If you dive into the archives of this very blog see: "http://blacksnob.com/journal/2009/2/1/personal-rants-you-could-say-im-a-little-sensetive-about-the.html" A lot of black women even as I said have taken issue with The Black Snob's Choices in including non black or black folks of mixed heritage or who fall into the "lighter than a paper bag" catergory in her "Wall of Sexy" . I don't think what I said was any different from what TBS said in her post :
"Mostly because if a black woman says she looooves Taye Diggs, loves dark-skinned men, does not find light-skinned men attractive, finds them effeminate, whatever, no one says boo. There are slaps on the back all around as if somehow light-skinned black people are the enemy."
So theres one example of a person who gets my drift....
As far as the second part, I do not think that people are "hardwired" to find people who look like them attractive in order to maintain som genetic profile. Throughout history, humans have tended to ghetto-ize them selves in communities that are ethnically or racially homogenous and were forced to pick from a particular pool. If I'm not mistaken, it was illegal for blacks and whites to marry in this country for quite awhile. But there were many who went as far as to leave the country to be with the person they loved. Now with all of this globalization and the disentergration of taboos and social stigmas, the doors are open for people to do whatever and whomever they like. They reeeaaly like.
I agree that society is a strong force that has the ability to shape minds and inject prejudice and self loathing but not everyone is as sensitive to those forces as you project. To put it short, Some black men just like white girls. It makes blk women feel better to believe that the black guy with the snow-bunny on his arm hates himself and has been brainwashed but sometimes thats just not the case. It may just be a preference and or L.O.V.E. Both of which we don't have a great deal of control over.