Breaking News - Manhunt Co-Owner To Step Down

J.C. Adams is breaking the news that Manhunt.net co-owner Jonathan Crutchley under increasing pressure from blog-fueled indigation  has successfully met his karmic match and been forced to resign by the Board of Directors of his company. Andy Towle, who first broke the MSM-elusive story here, has forced the issued into the sunshine. (Three Cheers for Honest Journalism!) What I'm not so comfortable with, though, is the mass gay hysteria about why what a private individual does with his own money matters to anyone. Is it disgraceful? ABSOLUTELY! John McCain would be ruinous not just for gays but the country. But it's his money and as far as I understand there is absolutely no proof that he used money earned from Manhunt.net to engage the enemy. Now a $100K contribution funded by a pro-McCain organization? That would be outrageous. But $2300? Yawn. What he does with his own money is his business. Repugnant or otherwise. If he wants to give his $2300 to the Brand-The-Homos-With-A-Geisha-Tattoo party, so be it. He's still a douche bag. But so what? He exploited a bunch of horny gays. So does Obama. Besides, the site is inherently self-destructive anyway.

 

Comments

[Xavier]

Thanks for a sane take on this hysteria. I agree that $2300 is not a big deal and what the person does with it is his business however offensive and self-loathing it is. I know Jonathan and have worked with Manhunt. His Republicanism is no secret so I don't know why the board was SHOCKED to find out he gave to McCain. But in defense of his company, they have been VERY generous to AIDS causes around the world and particularly to AIDS prevention work. They also give to GLBT and pride causes. My guess is that they have donated more cash and in-kind advertising to AIDS prevention work than some of these mainstream sites like Gay.com. And Jonathan personally signs off on these generous donations on behalf of his company. I hope whoever replaces him is as generous.

[me]

ummm, he owns the company....or half of it, so "stepping down" means nothing. the $$ you're sending to this douche for mancunt access is still going into his pocket so he can send more to republican assholes and (apparently) keep going to krispy kreme every day.

[Tre Xavier]

You're right. It is his money, and he can spend it any right or wrong way he wants to. The same way some married men (be their spouse male or female) spend their money on prostitutes.
I use that compairson because that like Manhunt is inherently self-destructive as you stated.
Plus Crutchley's co-ownership of Manhunt.net, as well his donation to a candidate that actually has no love for him, speaks volumes about his psyche. It shows Crutchley's own self-loathing. I feel that way about any gay that would side with anyone or any movement that is clearly anti-gay, like gay Blacks trying to force their way into mainstream hip-hop. It's the only logical explanation as to why he would do such a thing. He's probably still harboring whatever guilt was put in him about his sexuality in his younger years. I should know because before I realized and came to terms with my sexuality, I covered my butt by having drawn out analyzing conversations with my religious mom about how people become gay. If I had Crutchley's money, and while realizing my sexuality, never fully coming to terms with it, I could see myself doing the same thing.
This vresion of hiding can go on in some gay men for decades. Crutchly is a perfect example. So I feel more sorry for him, than angry at him.