Jared Leto Gives AIDS-Themed Acceptance Speech at SAG Awards. Everyone Happy Now?

Jared Leto came prepared to tonight’s 2014 SAG Awards with an acceptance speech that was careful to acknowledge “all of the people who lost their lives as a result of this dreadful disease” and dedicated the award to the “Rayons” of the world.  His speech was obviously a response to the internet-tongue-lashing/public shaming he got after his Golden Globes speech  was deemed to be lacking and insensitive.

When Jared Leto won a Golden Globe award for his role as the transgender character “Rayon” in the film Dallas Buyers Club, some people called him a homophobe. The internet was unhappy, it seems, that instead of giving tribute to victims of AIDS and HIV, he made a few jokes in his speech. Jokes like

“I did not ever use any prosthetics in this film…that tiny little Brazilian bubble butt was all mine.”

“It was a very transformative role, I had to do a lot of things to prepare. One of the things I did was wax my entire body including my eyebrows,” and

“I’m just fortunate that it wasn’t a period piece so I didn’t have to do a full Brazilian [wax]. Ladies, you know what I’m talking about though…and so do some of you men, I think.”

It’s not quite an apology but  the “internet justice police” will definitely go to sleep tonight feeling that they won this battle to get everyone to do and say the right thing. Here was Leto’s Golden Globe speech that was slammed as not sensitive and thankful enough.