'Homosexual' is banned (POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD ALERT)

The Sun ^ | November 27, 2002 | DAVID WOODING

[MadIvan]

I'm not happy about them taking the word "gay", though. A lot of songs from before the 1960's used the word to indicate "happy", not "homosexual".

"Homosexual" is neutral, scientific. I can't say I've heard it used in the same pejorative way as "poofter" is used.

They're getting worked up over nothing, darling. Language debates like this usually do more damage to those who are complaining about it.

Love, Ivan

[Happygal]

This reminds me of a sketch by Victoria Wood:

Can I tell you who I am?
I’m Pamela Patricia, but they call me Pam.
I don’t like shorts, or sling back shoes.
My only pair of trousers are my gardening trews.
I don’t say "who". I do say "whom".
I never use the toilet, just the smallest room.
I don’t say gay. I still say queer.
I think that Mussolini had the right idea.

[aruanan]

Car - selfish mechanized conveyance designed to cause environmental impact and avoid mass transit.

Oh, crap! How could I have been so insensitive to have forgotten about the environment and the public weal.

[OBone]

Does that mean smokers become fag suckers?

OMG!! I gotta quit!

[Snake65]

Arrgh...my latent Hamiltonian Anglophilia is being stretched like a bathouse condom, again.

In keeping with the times, how about using the Tolkienesque term "Ayrump Ranger?"

[Sparta]

Bump!!!

[Sparta]

I've made up "anal explorers" and "colon cowboys".

[sirchtruth]

Unless you are a religious nut, there is nothing inherantly wrong with homosexuality. It doesn't affect you. If it does, then hate THE PERSON affecting you. It's not like homosexuality is like Islam, where a code of laws encourages the hatred of us. There is a "Gay Pride Agenda", but it does not include all gays. It is all you hear about and I as well hate that side of the issue. But it is not all encompassing.

...And there is the lie! Homosexuality is inherently wrong, because human nature testifies against it's natural order. What homo's and people who have the same thought process that you express have is, you totally disregard the SELFISH EVIL DESIRE that's inherent within.

Homosexuality effects every one of us because it perpetuates the self-serving perverted desire of men and women...which is the proponate of evil. People who have a concentration that zero's in on their contorted sexual dalliances whether it be homosexual or adultrous actions or some other preverted activity are doing nothing more than catering to self-centerness that is depraved.

Same sex not only affects us all, but it effects all of society negatively because it's emphasis on self-aggrandizement leads down the road to degradation.

People who desire relations with the same sex have been nothing more than duped into believing that "their" desire to lay with someone of the same sex is a good thing for THEM, and that's ALL that matters.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

anti-discrimination laws drawn up by equality minister Barbara Roche.

Whew! I was glad to see that it was you who posted this Ivan. The above phrase gave me a start, since there was no solid geographical reference or dateline in the article. I was wondering when the hell the United States had allowed for the appointing of an "Equality Minister".

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"Meet the newest member of the Labour Cabinet."

"My neeples explode weeth deelight!"

[slimer]

This is so weird. It sounds really queer to me. Kind of freaky.

[FormerLib]

Turd burglar.

[FormerLib]

Unless you are a religious nut, there is nothing inherantly wrong with homosexuality.

Did you know it is now recommended for homosexuals to get annual anal pap smears due to their increased chances of anal cancers? "Nothing inherently wrong" indeed!

[Mackey]

Back Door Bruce.

[Mr. Silverback]

Instead they will refer to those with an “orientation towards people of the same sex”.

Replace one scientifically accurate word with seven words? Did dickens (paid by the word for his novels) come up with this one?

[MadIvan]

Replace one scientifically accurate word with seven words? Did dickens (paid by the word for his novels) come up with this one?

Well there is only one appropriate word for the people who came up with this change - "idiots".

Regards, Ivan

[Skywalk]

Ministry of Equality...*sigh*

Are we far behind?

[Mr. Silverback]

Like us, they are desperately trying to have a govt. office for everything. The Ministry of Silly Walks is probably already in place. Heck, the Min. of Silly Walks is probably where this ban on the word "homosexual" originated.

[N. Theknow]

I have always said that the word "gay" was coopted by the homosexuals because they could not stand to hear the word homosexual used as a desciptor.

The true meaning of the word homophobia is a homosexual that calls himself gay.