but it doesn't sound like she meant to say anything negative about gay people. So, perhaps ill thought, but soul-searching-bad? I don't think her comment was THAT bad...if she'd said "Assholes" instead of "Faggots" no one would have cared, but her intended meaning would not have likely changed. She was celebrating her team's victory by insulting the other team. That's far from unusual or some cardinal sin against humanity.
but it's the fact that in her lexicon it's insulting to call the other team faggots. That she considers it insulting to be queer.
Yes, it does require some soul searching. She claims that she is not homophobic, but thinks it's a horrible insult to call an ostensibly heterosexual group of men queer.
Take another example, the word "nigger." Most people in modern America wouldn't be caught dead saying that particular word unless they are rappers or from the ghetto. But, if you sit down with some seniors, who grew up in an era when that was "just what you called them" you'll hear it much more often. It was internalized in their culture and behavior.
My own grandfather, a Baptist Minister, used to tell the most horrible, offensive jokes, but he didn't mean anything by them. He loved the blacks in his church just as much as the whites.
Language has power, and the words you speak, speak about you and what's inside you.
For this woman, she obviously thinks it's an insult to call someone a faggot, which most would agree on. Why is it an insult? Because it derives from the negative stereotypes about queer men. When you call an athlete, a jock, a faggot you are questioning his masculinity because of course all faggots are nelly queens.
So, yes, I do think she needs to do some soul searching. Actions speak louder than words, and in this case the action was posting that tweet, and the words are her claims to not be homophobic.
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Interesting way to bring people together
08/09/2010 04:36:19 PM
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1. That girl is an idiot who needs to do some soul searching...
08/09/2010 07:07:47 PM
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? not that her comment was excusable...
08/09/2010 07:45:59 PM
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It's not a cardinal sin against humanity...
08/09/2010 07:55:55 PM
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or it just means...
08/09/2010 08:18:57 PM
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Societal problems don't go away from the group level.
08/09/2010 08:25:21 PM
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You have an odd definition of homophobe (or at least that's what your last paragraph implies).
08/09/2010 10:04:52 PM
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I was trying to use her words...
08/09/2010 10:17:32 PM
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Ah, okay. Her apology does seem rather clumsy, agreed there.
08/09/2010 11:05:34 PM
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Glad to clear up that confusion.
08/09/2010 11:11:35 PM
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I don't think you should read too much in the exact wording of her apology.
08/09/2010 11:24:21 PM
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You should watch that Southpark episode where they change the meaning of the word faggot.
08/09/2010 09:24:16 PM
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I've seen it, and it was funny.
08/09/2010 09:40:43 PM
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Suspect you need to consider the way the word is used in other countries.
08/09/2010 09:46:05 PM
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I admit, I don't know many (any) kiwis personally (in person that is)...
08/09/2010 09:52:45 PM
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The insult word for homosexuals Downunder tends to be Fruit or Queer.
08/09/2010 09:58:04 PM
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OK, I can see that.
08/09/2010 10:09:16 PM
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I think it's unfair to people to assume that there's some underlying bad nature...
08/09/2010 10:18:29 PM
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I'm not assuming there's an underlying bad nature, I am saying she should look to see if it's there.
08/09/2010 10:27:21 PM
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And I'm saying that you're instantly looking on the negative side of things instead of
08/09/2010 10:46:11 PM
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I don't think I'm looking at the negative side of things, merely saying that she needs to look.
08/09/2010 11:01:11 PM
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Or, she was replying to interview questions and thinking on her feet.
08/09/2010 11:10:26 PM
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She said she needs to learn to think before she tweets lol
08/09/2010 08:14:38 PM
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Yes, but that's just a surface change.
08/09/2010 08:20:59 PM
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