Zac Hanson - Rightwing Nut Job

Just own it.

Anything for a headline

When people show you how they are, believe them.

Beauty Fades, Dumb Is Forever.

R2, why would this be included in THAT thread? Why should it be buried in that one about ANOTHER brother being an asshole?

Leaking nudes will help us forgive faster, Zac.

I wouldn't describe him as a beauty.

I am always bemused by the whole “doesn’t reflect my views” defense.

Yes I wrote it, but it doesn’t reflect my views.

Yes I pinned it on my Pinterest page, but it doesn’t reflect my views.

Yes I liked it on Twitter/Instagram/whatever but it doesn’t reflect my views.

It’s so nonsensical.

Hasn’t been relevant for decades. And where is his onlyfans

How does he have time for all that with 4 freaking kids?

On what planet would anyone be shocked about this coming from a Mormon?

Not all Mormons spend their free time being hateful.

R12, they didn't even accept black people until the 70s. They do absolutely look down on other groups.

If you said it, you meant it, you fugly washed up bitch. Don't be a pussy now and backtrack, now that you're caught! Or are you only a manly man with a gun in your hand or behind a computer screen on (lol) Pintrest?

I see that most of their output has been self released, except for a Christmas album in 2017.

Pinterest?

Wow! I always liked Hanson for being legitimately talented group. But man these guys are dumb as rocks. In 2020 alone, they have managed to alienate a majority of their fans who have been supporting them for decades.

But at the same time, what do people expect? They were homeschooled white boys from Bible Belt Oklahoma from a big Evangelical family and they never left the South for a more liberal/secular place like LA/NYC which would have opened their minds up. But it's kinda hypocritical of them as some fans pointed out. Hanson should be more vocal of Black American causes and rights because they were heavily influenced by blues, soul and Motown artists. Other rock bands including those from red Southern states have been vocal on these social issues.

R17 to answer that headline, even without them being assholes, they haven't been relevant since Dawson had a creek.

[Quote] they never left the South for a more liberal/secular place like LA/NYC which would have opened their minds up.

I don't buy that. How often have they toured the world?

[quote] but it doesn’t reflect my views.

Their views are that this might hurt them financially. Conservative religious Christian nutjobs love their dollars more than their Jesus.

I find Zac aesthetically pleasing and attractive but he's dumb as fuck and it's clear he's spoiled and immature. It's that stupid Evangelical culture that allows for "boys to be boys" and not be emotionally mature and socially responsible men. The Hansons tour and make money sure but are just oversized boys who still get to party, shoot guns and sleep around. While their stepford wives stay at home barefoot and pregnant raising and homeschooling their kids. It's misogynistic really

“He first tried to explain it away as a joke saying “Maybe it’s in bad taste, a lot of comedy is.””

MMMPlop!

I know Christians who have "toured" the world doing missionary work and that never made them more open-minded to different views. Traveling for work or school doesn't automatically make you more liberal or tolerant. The guys from Hanson did travel as kids but mostly stayed in Tulsa when they weren't touring and all of them got married relatively early. Their father is a wealthy accountant for an oil company. They don't seem like particularly hateful and seem to get along with everyone. But they are still most likely Republican and complacent with the ways things are which will justifiably make a lot of their fanbase who are LGBT or a racial minority upset. Hanson doesn't even seem to get why people are so mad with them which goes to show no matter how much you travel and tour, if you don't leave your comfort zone, you are still a sheltered uneducated idiot.

I wonder if the Taylor Hanson Troll is affected by this?

It's absolutely hateful to work against social distancing. It shows a complete disregard not just for COVID-19 victims but the healthcare workforce.

Taylor was Shawn Mendes of the early 2000s it seems with all the gay rumor threads on DL

I still can't figure out which one is which.

[Quote] Taylor was Shawn Mendes of the early 2000s

Mendes pings from space. Taylor had girlish looks. Hardly the same thing.

R27, I can only tell them apart when they’re naked.

Looks like he had his nose thinned and ears pinned back since he was a child. Hmmm.

Taylor absolutely does have a gay vibe to him and not just because he's pretty and was a soft voice. I remember the rumors between him and Ben Jelen and Alex Greenwald. He seems the least religious and Republican of his siblings too though being silent is just as bad as he's an enabler.

^ Fuck that Silence-Is-Violence shit.

Not issuing statements is in no way equal to posting hateful shit and conspiracy theories.

I agree with the poster upthread: he should just own it. He’s now middle-aged at 35. He can’t chalk it up to foolish youth. He’s got four kids of his own.

R32 I think silence can be damaging when you have your siblings posting dumb shit and potentially ruining the reputation of the band that you worked hard to maintain. Since Taylor is the face of Hanson and all it isn't a good look. So his silence is violence to the band and their reputation.

Does he have “an” Onlyfans?

Damn Vice wrote a whole expose on them.

He sounds like one of our trolls.

R36 I think he may be one of our trolls. Literally the only things I have ever heard about any Hanson since their nonsense song 25 years ago have been posts by someone on DL talking about how hot one of them has grown up to be. It's probably one of them or a publicist trying to sell records to gullible gays.

Haha. All you queens lusting over these guys must be disappointed.

That's a huge article for such an itty, bitty fading band.

All you queens = one or two trolls at most.

I wonder if they'll get bold and start complaining about the liberal media and "Hollyweird."

[Quote] They went from being the princes of pop to the kings of being tone deaf

Even when Mmmbop was big, they were never consistent enough to be called princes of pop.

[Quote] "It's a joke," he wrote in defense of one meme that showed a man being consoled by a woman with the caption, "I told her guns make me feel uncomfortable. She said we should both see other men."

[Quote] "Maybe it's in bad taste, a lot of comedy is," Zac continued to the fan. "Yes she's putting him down, cause she's hard core [sic]. It's the woman that 'gun guys' daydream about."

Jesus Fucking Christ.

[Quote] In an emailed statement to VICE, Zac wrote, "The leaked Pinterest page provided a distorted view of the issues surrounding race and social justice, which do not reflect my personal beliefs. I apologize for the hurt my actions caused."

Are Pinterest pages not for everyone to view, i.e. "on public"?

[quote] Even when Mmmbop was big, they were never consistent enough to be called princes of pop.

I’ve never heard a single one of their other songs.

How can a Pinterest account be “leaked”?? He used a pseudonym.

I didn’t know straight men used Pinterest at all. Is he the first?

No. Mick Lovell of Bel Ami had one as well.

You can be proudly Anti American but you'll get cancelled for merely not saying the words Black Lives Matter. What a time to be alive.

Who's cancelled, hon?

R49 Dude, the guy has shared memes championing George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin. What is wrong with you?

Trolls be trollin', r51.

And can we see some of these racist, transphobic and homophobic memes or should we just judge by hearsay.. from... "queerty“?

One is referenced at r43, r53.

Thanks r54. I don’t get it...

You don't understand the following:

[Quote] "I told her guns make me feel uncomfortable. She said we should both see other men."

What's Hanson?

R56 guns as in biceps? Still doesn’t make sense to me. If male muscles make him uncomfortable why does the woman make a gay reference?

Is he the one who's a covidiot, claiming that COVID is a ploy to cancel Christas or some such nonsense?

Yes, that's Zac.

Zac thinks homosexuality is a choice in an interview with Advocate.

[quote] My feeling toward gays is always just... everybody chooses. People's sexuality and how they live their lives-they have to decide, and it's not for me to tell them or not to. I don't walk to the marching orders or anything like that.

He is a moron. But he admitted though that he and Taylor are aware of all the gay incest fanfics about Hanson and he called Taylor a "good-looking pretty boy". Not just fangirls writing this too, Nifty has a bunch of stories involving Hanson in their celebrity category that date back to the late 90s when they were all still underage LOL.

Fun fact: Hanson worked with Gus Van Sant for the "Weird" music video which Zac praises Gus's talent and knowledge of guitar. I imagine Gus had a crush on Taylor since he looked a bit like River Phoenix.

R13 says "they didn't accept blacks" until the 1970s, when about 75% of Mormons were boring after that.

I don't defend this cult, but remember that being excluded, as we gays are, by such a self-deluded, narrow, fabulist, shallow, materialistic, lost tribe of gullible and indoctrinated cases is rather win-win. Unless you're a rationalist trying to live in Utah or other cult environs.

Even the Mormons I know loathe it, as they are dependent on and trapped in it.

They were boring before, dear.

Just a heads up that I just fucked this dude in the ass and then blew him, but it does not reflect my personal beliefs.

You couldn't make him cum from fucking him?

Always be weary of these "mild, soft spoken" bible beaters.

[quote] "I told her guns make me feel uncomfortable. She said we should both see other men."

The joke is bad for attempting to associate unmanliness with being gay. The connection between being uncomfortable with guns and being unmanly should have been made in a different way.

[Quote] The connection between being uncomfortable with guns and being unmanly should have been made in a different way.

Or not made at all as it is stupid as fuck.

Branson, Missouri ahoy!

Hit too close to home?

R67 ahhh I get the joke now. It was so not based in reality and so unfunny that I just couldn’t understand it at all.

Are you on the spectrum, r71?

R72 No. I just did not connect being uncomfortable with guns with anything gay. My first instinct was to think about biceps "guns“.. which made even less sense.

Maybe because I’m not American, so I’m not used to the cultural belittling of homosexuality rampant in America..

You're from Lesbos?

R74 no.. was that a joke?

[Quote] no..

Paradise Island?

R76 I don’t know what you are insinuating...

Lesbos is the place of origin of a myrh related to lesbians and also where all the migrants/refugees are stranded in camps in Greece.

You're from somewhere free of misogyny as it relates to homophobia, no?

[quote] I just did not connect being uncomfortable with guns with anything gay.

Nor should you. The connection between being a man who is uncomfortable with guns and being unmanly should have been done in a way that didn’t imply that gay men are unmanly.

[Quote] The connection between being a man who is uncomfortable with guns and being unmanly should have been done in a way that didn’t imply that gay men are unmanly.

It shouldn't have been done at all. And a key part of the joke is that (good) women also like guns. A "good" woman is by definition unmanly.

The joke doesn’t indicate anything good or bad about women, but it does presuppose that women prefer manly men.

Given that Taylor is [italic]Hanson[/italic]. He's the face, the voice and the songwriter. He was always the charismatic one too. He could easily go solo.

[Quote] it does presuppose that women prefer manly men.

Which makes them "good" women.

Funny thing is Zac is not masculine in any way. He is a nerdy boy with a fem voice just like Taylor is. Liking guns doesn't make you manly. I know a few women who shoot guns. I think Zac just has issues with his manhood because he's part of a group that faced a lot of homophobic insults back in the late 90s due to their look and sound when he was a child.

Doubtful. Most gun nuts weren't in a childhood boy band.

R84 which is exactly why he (and other weak men) need external props and gimmicks and words to showcase "masculinity“, making a parody of themselves and masculinity.

[quote] Funny thing is Zac is not masculine in any way.

Yes, thus trying to appear more manly by way of comparison to men uncomfortable with guns.