GLAAD Calls Mickey Rourke "Painfully Ignorant" For Using The F-Word

Mickey Rourke is "painfully arrogant," according to the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation after "The Wrestler" star used the derogatory word "faggot" numerous times in a TMZ video.

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The 57-year-old comeback actor felt the heat last year when he slipped saying the F-word. He apologized for the slip-up, saying it was "insensitive and inappropriate."

However, in a new video posted by gossip website TMZ, Rourke tried to explain the term, comparing it to a football situation. In the footage, he freely used the homophobic word numerous times, saying back in the days the F-word had "nothing to do with gay" and that it's just the same as saying "punkass."

GLAAD then released a statement to the website in response to the video. It does not agree that the word is harmless.

President Jarrett Barrios said, "This is a slur that, regardless of what Mickey Rourke has convinced himself that it means, is often the last word that gay people, and gay youth in particular, hear before they're bullied, harassed or assaulted."

"Rourke is showing himself to be painfully ignorant of how this vulgar, abusive slur feeds a climate of anti-gay hatred, intolerance and violence."

"Rourke either needs to figure this out, or media needs to stop giving him a platform for promoting these kinds of slurs."