Clyde Frog
formerly jay02
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Method Man wrote:
Apparently Kevin Garnett can get camera time to every opening of every game, drilling his forehead into a mat saying MOTHER F THIS MOTHER F THAT MOTHER F YOU and its ok. Kobe says 2 words to the dude next to him that in my eyes do no more harm than what KG said and gets fined 100k.Seriously its just the group that its referenced to are too sensitive. There's a reason homosexuals friends are majority girls. Sensitivity...
No more harm? Who are you to judge whether or not it's harmed someone? Clearly it has or there wouldn't be any controversy here. You're just choosing not to accept it as valid, which is a little like a White guy deciding that racist stereotype in Disney films was just good clean fun and that the rest of us are a bunch of PC pansies for ever objecting to it.
Of course, I suppose I shouldn't expect you to appreciate the distinction if you're busy stereotyping gay men. Kobe's competed against gay players in the NBA. There are gay men risking their lives in the armed forces at this very moment. To call gay men as a whole weak and "oversensitive" is, itself, kind of bigoted.
I certainly don't blame the LGBT community for being upset about this. It shouldn't be accepted in our society just as racial slurs should never have been tolerated in our society. I wouldn't call civil rights activists "too sensitive."
Obviously there are more important LGBT rights issues to be concerned about than a stupid comment shouted by a frustrated basketball player, but, even so, the action itself is a hell of a lot harder to defend than Kobe Bryant himself. It's no surprise, then, that you guys are flopping around like Vlade Divac in the attempt.
The point is swearing/slurs are seen as disrespectful. If KG can do that on camera and its fine but Kobe cant say what he said it means Kobe can be as disrespectful as he wants as long as it doesn't refer to gay people.
I dont get why people cant get the concept of intent. I use that word all time jokingly with my friends, not one of them are gay. Nor am i using it to say they are gay. Its the same as shut up B****. Shoot, i have a few questionable friends too that ive said it to. Like shut up ******, then laughter follows.
People are just too serious these days thats all im saying. Everyone needs to lighten up. I had to do a paper on the power of words and it really made me realize how dumb cursing or slurs are. Like its just a friggin word calm down. Who even made these words up to mean this.
People are too serious
Edit: I was just thinking. If you look at most curses they have been all transformed from the original meaning. It can be said the same for this. Just because you say it doesnt mean you have to take it literal given the context. I would understand if I say there and made fun of you for doing gay things and degraded you because of it. But thats not the case. Until then its just a word that can mean anything. I know you're not gonna agree with me on this but can you at least see what im getting at?