You have an odd definition of homophobe (or at least that's what your last paragraph implies).
Legolas Send a noteboard - 08/09/2010 10:04:52 PM
Her professed self-image is different than what her actions show, so she needs to look inside to see what she really thinks. If she really doesn't want to be someone who offends people with her words, if she doesn't want to be a homophobe, she needs to address this issue within herself.
Did you mean to suggest that the definition of a homophobe is someone who offends gay people? Seems to me homophobia has to do with that person's own feelings towards gay people, more than with gay people's feelings about that person. Plenty of homophobes out there who don't make that known in public for fear of a backlash, I'm sure, and on the other hand people who aren't homophobic but insult gay people because of group pressure or whatever.
Anyway, that's a bit nitpicking maybe, I agree with Celia that most likely Rice doesn't fall into either of those categories nor that of open homophobe. It's likely she doesn't have much in the way of gay friends or sensitivity for the issue, yes, or she would have chosen a better word, but that's a wholly different thing.
The most important lesson she should learn from this, if you ask me, is how very deceptive Twitter is. You type in a few words from the privacy of your home or cell phone, the sort of thing you might say out loud to your friends, and next thing you know the whole world can know about it.
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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