Posted on 03/25/2014 7:13:26 AM PDT by mandaladon
Media Matters, the website of choice for Fox News haters everywhere, attacked the cable news network on Monday for using the term “homosexual” in its programming — advancing the peculiar argument that the scientific term has a “pejorative connotation.”
The online “media watchdog” contends that calling gay people “homosexual” is “a practice that’s quickly falling out of favor with major news outlets due the term’s often pejorative connotation and frequent use by opponents of LGBT equality.” Fox News, they chide, “has yet to update its language when referring to gay and lesbian people.”
Buttressing their argument? A weekend piece in the Fashion and Style section of the New York Times entitled “The Decline and Fall of the ‘H’ Word.” In it, reporter Jeremy Peters likens the term to using “colored” to address black people and asserts that the word contains “the ring of disapproval and judgment.”
That was all Media Matters needed to pounce, accusing Fox News of not getting the memo clearly received by the New York Times and other “responsible” journalistic outlets. Specifically singled out were hosts Sarah Palin and Megyn Kelly, although the blog post provided no specific instances of when either of them used the term.
But Fox News anchor Shannon Bream — who Media Matters described as “a pro-discrimination champion” — was caught in the act of using the “H-word” as part of a tweet promoting on a news segment. That tweet, however, was over two years old.
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You’re just making it worse for yourself!
Homosexual Fridays at Media Matters must be a hoot?
Homo Sapiens, Homo Erectus, Homogenous, Homogenized.....
” I call blacks “negroes” and whites, “caucasian”. That drives ‘em nuts too.”
They don’t care for the term American-African either.
Just say “homo” or “queers”.
It has come to mean what it labels.
Soon “gay” will also be banned, because it will come to mean what it labels.
This is the same with all the perverted leftist ideas, concepts, and groups. They change their label to make them more acceptable, but people soon are using that label to describe the truth about that which is referred to, and the label then is discarded.
“Homosexual” has a clear, specific, technical meaning. “Gay” has several meanings, only one of which relates to sexual preference.
All homosexuals are homosexual.
Some homosexuals are gay (depending on which meaning of the term one is considering or intending).
They are NOT the same! Try telling that to the “Colored People’s Front”, and then the same to the “People Of Color Front”.
No. Because what the labels describe will forever be unacceptable, no matter what label you put on it.
Think “honey wagon”.
It can't keep it all straight (so to speak). "Colored people" is incorrect, but "people of color" is the preferred term. Now, referring to people who engage in homosexual behavior "homosexuals" is incorrect? (Calling them, "people-who-engage-in- homosexual-behavior" seems kinda awkward.)
ho·mo·sex·u·al
adjective \ˌhō-mə-ˈsek-sh(ə-)wəl, -ˈsek-shəl\
: sexually attracted to people of the same sex
: based on or showing a sexual attraction to people of the same sex
Homosexual, sodomite, and a thousand other phrases to say a faggot hat sticks his body parts into the asshole of other men.
"Will it ever end?"
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