I suppose next they will ban the Christmas Carol "Deck The Halls" because it says "Don we now our gay apparel"...
Last weekend we met with some friends, ate dinner and played some card games. There was a lot of laughter and joking around. I haven't felt that gay in a long time.
This is SO perv.
It seems there is a lot of evidence around that the term is used generically rather than specifically. I know the kids in my town use it regularly. It's the current term for being vapid or silly. While the gay community can argue to remove the term from popular lexicon, one has a hard time proving that this young woman meant it as a harassment of homosexuals, especially where it was in response to being teased herself based on stereotypes. I think the school should lose on this one and remove the notation on her record.
That's so fudge-packy.
When do playground insults used every day all over America cross the line into hate speech that must be stamped out? (from the article)
Ah!.,,,Here it is again: The fundamental conflict between government owned and run schools and the First Amendment.
It is impossible to respect free speech and run orderly and safe schools, therefore, when government own schools government will trash the First Amendment or have disorderly schools. Government schools can not do both simultaneously.
Government can NOT both have free speech in its schools and protect the children from proselytizing ( or conversely attack) by the other children regarding religion. For instance, this Mormon girl was attacked verbally for her religion.
Also in punishing this girl, ( a permanent mark on her record and public humiliation) I doubt that the government respected any of the girl's constitutional rights.
The Courts will rule on this case ( if they accept it)very narrowly, and fail to address the fundamental and irresolvable conflict between government schools, free speech, and the First Amendment.
Solution: Begin the process of privatizing universal K-12 education.
When I was young, I was taught to absorb little insults and humiliations and move on; to laugh them off; we all were. The saying was, sticks and stones, you know the rest. This was for the best, we grew up with thicker skins and didn't waste time agonizing about little insults. We are moving in the wrong direction. This shouldn't be in the courts. The logical extreme somewhere down the line after this is to be like the muslims and riot and starting the heads rolling because of a cartoon. Time spent agonizing over little insults is time not spent in productive pursuits and is the mark of an immature and declining culture.
I must have missed the part of the story where the school also disciplined her classmates for their harrassment of the girl over her religious faith. It was perfectly ok for these other classmates to bully her and belittle and ridicule her faith with epithets about polygamy, but she must be punished for saying "That's so gay"?
That school administration couldn't be any gayer if you put nipple clamps on it.
P.C. police are so gay!
I'm assuming the other kids didn't get in trouble for making fun of her Mormon beliefs?
What if she meant "that is so happy?" that is what the word actually means.
I have a lot of old old sheet music. The word gay in it's real meaning is everywhere
there's a big difference between beating a kid up and using a slang term... what's funny is that I've heard many a gay person say "that's so gay." it's the people who know and won't admit to themselves that homosexuality is weird and should be dealt with accordingly who take such offense to calling something "gay."
My husband will say, "That's gay" about a lot of things. He used it to replace his "you're a commie" phrase, since people seem to have forgotten what a commie was.