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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Too muscular.
What do homosexuals call themselves?
“I prefer the term “bone smoking butt pirate”.”
I go with fairy. They hate that.
You'd be correct in referring to men or women as homosexual.
Latin, homo means "man" but Greek, homo means "same".
As the Mexican taxi driver said to some men (touring Juarez) who did not want to go to a wh*re house.....”You queers-s-s!
You don’ like girls you queers-s-s!”
You’d be correct in referring to men or women as homosexual.
Latin, homo means “man” but Greek, homo means “same”.
“Some homosexuals are gay (depending on which meaning of the term one is considering or intending).”
If you are a homosexual you say hello. If you are gay you say hellloooooooo!
But if they won't refer to me by the term I want used for me and those like me, why should I refer to them by what they want?
I'm heterosexual and they are homosexual; hetero and homo. What's the problem, have they changed the clinical names?
I prefer the term “sodomite”.
actually, they are Queer.
Queers are deviant but they hate being segregated by being called deviants. So, to keep the peace, just use the catch all Queer.
So if you mention a study in the Journal of Homosexuality is that also being homophobic? See
http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=readership&journalCode=wjhm20&&mobileUi=0#.UzGZ78p5uw8
Actually “homophobic” is short for “homosexualphobic” so we need a new word for that too.
I refuse to give the term “gay” to homosexuals, just as I refuse to give the term “progressive” to liberals, socialists and fascists.
Words have meanings and should not be perverted to advance someone’s agenda (unless it’s my agenda).
I refuse to use the term ‘gay’. Words have meaning and the homos I’ve met are so far from gay it’s sad.
We have a perfectly serviceable word for them and that is homosexual.
” I am a Sailor at heart after all”
Milwaukee girls used to call the Sailors on leave from the Great Lakes Base—”Fishsticks!”
What about Fags and Dykes?
“Milwaukee girls used to call the Sailors on leave from the Great Lakes Base—”Fishsticks!””
Bless their hearts for their “service” to the fleet.
As long as they can tell us what words to use, they are in charge. Control of the language is a way to power. To the left, power is life itself; it’s all they care about.
Well .... isn't that precious.
Queer. Flamer. Faggot. Dyke. Fairy. Poofter. Rump Ranger. Pickle Smoocher. Pillow Biter. Rug Muncher. Taco Eater. Sodomite.
Hmmm .... Some other words they might not like ...
AIDS. Syphilis. Anal Warts. Hepatitis. Incompetent Sphincter. e. coli. Gonorrhea.
Friday and Saturday nights, cruising Wisconsin Avenue was a blast!
A gook is a gook, a wetback is a wetback, a negro is a negro. I refuse to call them African-Americans. They are more of a brown that a black, so black is out too. It seems that all want to be called something they’re not—illegal immigrants, gays, whatever. There will always be queers and homos. Just leave me alone.
Thank you for your Service and Sacrifices jimt.
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