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GLAAD isn't laughing at "South Park" F-Word episode

On Wednesday night, the writers of "South Park" took on the F-Word.  I'm not talking about fuck.  Fag was the word of the night.  Now, GLAAD says they got the joke - they just aren't laughing.

Regular readers know that I use the word Fag and all of its dirivitives (fag, faggot, faggoty, faggish, fagged out).  In a sense, I guess am trying to own the word.  If someone is going use the word, I figure it may as well be us.

GLAAD seems to want to pull all of the negative stigma from the word all together.

In a press release, members wrote: "Though this seems to represent a well-intentioned effort by the creators of South Park to delegitimize a vulgar anti-gay slur, the fact is that the word is and remains a hateful slur that is often part of the harassment, bullying and violence that gay people, and gay youth in particular, experience on a daily basis in this country."

So what do you think?  Should we all stop using the word fag or is it ours to own? Leave a comment below with your thoughts!






Comments

word are just words. nuff said

@ Gabe

Words are NOT just words,when they are meant do degrade and demean an indvidual or an entire group of people.Especially when that group is a historically oppressed group.People need to get educated and understand the social concept of RESPECT,ACCEPTANCE,and TOLERANCE.Using such words to demean a group shows lack of all of all 3 elements and lack of intellect.Americans really need to learn and start using more intellect.Its even sadder when gay people actually defend such tyranny.Because in the end,you are part of the problem.Its not just the homophobic bigots,its you TOO!!!

by the way that's individual

you guys are fags

Um. So does this mean that I can say NIGGER whenever I want and does it mean that South Park can and SHOULS write an episode where the word NIGGER is used constantly?

Um. So does this mean that I can say NIGGER whenever I want and does it mean that South Park can and SHOULS write an episode where the word NIGGER is used constantly?

Omg you guys r such faggots. I have no disrespects for homosexuals any where. Im straight and ive been called faggot for years. it means douchebag. As much hurt as it has caused to just be called a faggot in the end IT HAS MADE ME STRONGER. and if you cant get over the word and build some proper social eddicates then your still being a faggot. No one caresif your homosexual. Im sick of GSA people crying over my school at the word. The word is a word that has ALWAYS CHANGED MEANINGS.

BY the way NIgger has always refered to as a black slave. So GSA members get off the same oppresion train as blacks and calm the fuck down.

OBAMA 2012 for president

Here's the deal, the word fag has been around much longer than homo bashing.

As it was stated in that episode in south park, the word has had a variety of meanings, some of which are still in use, such as europe where the word fag is still used in reference of a cigarette.

The fact is most people who use the word use it as a derogatory term towards annoying or irritating people, or douchebags.

Yes there is a prejudice minority in America that use racial slurs and terms to demean an entire people, group, or belief, but if the word fag disappeared they'd use another word for their purposes.

The word is always going to be around, it's going to be used, you're not going to be able to change that fact, so toughen the fuck up, get used to it, because in the end, it's just a fucking word. Ignore it.

South park does have a nigger episode, it was actually quite a funny one.

It's a show meant to be funny, it made me laugh, mission accomplished.

Stop reading too much into shit.

P.S. words are words, ignore them you fucking queers (definition; strange, different [does not mean homosexual])

I have one thing to say to GLAAD: f*ck you and get a brain.

There's nothing I hate more than conservative mormons than Politically Correct hippies that make me ashamed to vote blue.

I got called fag for being a punk rocker, a skateboarder, a musician, for drawing, for being sensitive, for appreciating women and not just wanting to fuck them, for not playing team sports, for not wanting to shower with other men, for reading books, for being a liberal, for being a political activist, for just about anything any meat head didn't understand or whatever didn't make the herd oriented type comfortable. Anne Coulter called John Edwards a faggot cause he's a wishy washy opportunistic douchebag. I'd call her a fag, but douchebag and cunt seem more applicable. I call yuppies and other cookie cutter herd turds fags. The word has definitely changed it's meaning. Everyone needs to evolve past this oversensitivy and have enough confidence to be themselves and not give a damn what anyone else has to say about it. P.S. South Park already addressed the word nigger. Trey and Matt have been using satire for 13 seasons in the same spirit as Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Doug Stanhope, the writers of All In the Family and countless others who use comedy as a vehicle for social comment. Grow up fags.

Actually words ARE just words, you self righteous hypocrite.
"People need to get educated and understand the social concept of RESPECT,ACCEPTANCE,and TOLERANCE"

Yes, you do. Since the word has changed so much what right do you have to tell when and how they can use it. Don't be such a fag.

First off,judging by the comments of the ignorant douche-bags here,just shows and proves my point of how ignorant and uneducated people (especially Str8 people) are.Words are NOT just words.Apparently you uneducated neanderthals dont know who Martin Luther King Jr. is.He gave his "I have a dream" speech,which made history.Secondly,what main ingredient do you think helped get President Obama elected? His words.You have to be an ignorant person with the IQ of a fucking 3 year old to think words are just words.Words are what give many things value.You racist white bigots who use the word "nigger" in your vocabulary to refer to a black person,your kind is nothing but ignorant uneducated white trash,which gives respectable intelligent white people a bad name.If I were a supreme being,your sorry pathetic ignorant ass would be zapped into dust.And it figures heterosexuals and their anti-gay rhetoric would start spouting about how faggot is just a word.Ok let me break it down for your uneducated ass:

Faggot or "Fag" is what a homophobic heterosexual (especially heterosexual males) call a gay man or a man that they suspect as gay to degrade them and attempt to take their humanity away.

"Nigger" is what racist white people call black people,because only uneducated ignorant white people would see a black person as less than human.

If anything white people should be called every insulting name in the book since they have done more harm than any other race to the world.White people have been known theives,stealing the American land from the Native Americans,stealing the africans from their land and using them as slaves and even today,committing corporate fraud and stealing money from people and attempt to get out of paying taxes,insurance fraud.

@ Rebby

Im not even gonna get into it with you because you are an ignorant piece of shit and I have no interest in dealing with you,Id rather argue with a kitchen table.

If you call me a "faggot" in person be prepared to get slashed from navel to nose.I have a 6 inch switch blade,Ive already used it twice.I also have a 44 magnum in which I have a license to carry around with me and only would use it if truly necessary.So you try any shit with me,prepare to get turned into swiss cheese.With ignorant bigots like yall around,I need to be prepared to you out.The less of you sick bigots around the better off civil society will be.

I need to be prepared to *TAKE* you out

I should explain to my sister that when she was harassed by douchebags in high school and called 'fag' that they really just thought she was one of them? or maybe a biker?

Its ridiculous for anyone to claim it just means 'douchebag' and that people develop using that word without any homophobic overtones. If Trey and Matt were as honest as Louis CK was about how he uses the word, they'd admit they just like how it sounds and deal with the blowback instead of such bullshit excuses.

I am not straight, and I think this whole argument is ridiculous. A lot of words have more than one meaning. I personally use the word fag in many contexts, both to describe actual gay people, and to describe people who are lame; The former I consider a term of endearment and the latter is an insult, which has nothing to do with gay people. The truth is, as I see it, that people want to ban certain words, because those words cause certain people pain. But get real, America, and grow up! There will always be ignorance and bullying, from now until the end of time, because it is human nature. If it's not the word fag or the word nigger, it's going to be some other made up stupid sounding word that people decide is offensive and use to harass eachother. When we seek to forbid certain words, all it does is give those words more power. If we all lightened up a little bit, I think the world would be a much nicer place.

The saddest thing is when gays defend the homophobes.

"Words are NOT just words,when they are meant do degrade and demean an indvidual or an entire group of people.Especially when that group is a historically oppressed group.People need to get educated and understand the social concept of RESPECT,ACCEPTANCE,and TOLERANCE.Using such words to demean a group shows lack of all of all 3 elements and lack of intellect.Americans really need to learn and start using more intellect.Its even sadder when gay people actually defend such tyranny.Because in the end,you are part of the problem.Its not just the homophobic bigots,its you TOO!!!"

Sounds to me like YOU are not respecting Gabe's opinion and that YOU are being intolerant and especially NOT being accepting of other's views.

Does this mean that you demand Tolerance, Respect and Acceptance as long as it's something that you personally agree with?

If you were offended by the episode then you probably didn't understand it.

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