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 thats quickly falling out of favor with major news outlets due the terms 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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Homosexuals are Homosexuals. They are not gay. If truth is now unacceptable then the end is already here.......
Will it ever end?
No, unless we stand up and end it.........
Working in the restaurant industry in college I met a lot of Gay Guys (I know, shocker, GAYS work in restaurants). Anyhow, many of them could not stand Transvestites (sorry 1980’s term) and I can not repeat the jokes they said about Lesbians. I often wonder how GAYS and Lesbians feel about being lump in with Transgender?
Yes, and yes again, I second your post-these people want to argue with a distinction and term that goes all the way back to the Greeks-who openly practiced it? Well, that is too f’in bad-I’ll continue to call them “homosexual” because that is what they are. The only pejorative I use is mojado-or wetback, if you like, and I’ll continue to say that, too...
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The fact that they don’t like it means we should use it.
The opposite of a “breeder” is an “extincter”, one who contributes to the extinction of their species.
So if you order your BLT with Gucamole, ....
Seriously ?
If they don't like homo, they'd probably like b___f____r even less.
I think Incompetent Sphincter played at the Astrodome in the late ‘70s.
I am sure humblegunner would remember.
I seem to recall him getting in trouble for throwing spitballs.
On another note, “Incompetent Sphinctre” would be a great name for a band.
1982, reunion tour.
“So is colored, just ask the NAACP.”
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NAACP=Nauseating Association for Advancement of Crime Perpetrators
Or National Association of Criminal Professionals, something like that, I’m not sure exactly.
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