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'Homosexual' is banned (POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD ALERT)
The Sun ^
| November 27, 2002
| DAVID WOODING
Posted on 11/26/2002 11:42:29 PM PST by MadIvan
GAYS have had the word homosexual banned by the Government because they say it is offensive.
Ministers want it written out of their vocabulary after complaints that it was outdated.
Instead they will refer to those with an orientation towards people of the same sex.
Homosexual, coined 130 years ago, will be ditched under anti-discrimination laws drawn up by equality minister Barbara Roche.
Whitehall officials will be told not to use the term in official documents, speeches, press releases or white papers.
Last night a spokesman for Mrs Roche, 48, denied the move was political correctness.
He said: There was a strong feeling that homosexual wasnt the way forward in defining sexual orientation. There were various concerns.
Gays objection to the word homosexual was revealed while mum-of-one Mrs Roche was doing a consultation exercise last year.
The paper, called Towards Equality and Diversity, contained the Governments plans to tackle sexual and religious discrimination.
For decades homosexual was regarded as a non-discriminatory alternative to words like queer, fairy and poof.
But since gay took over as the most popular description in the 1960s, homosexual is seen by some as a term of abuse.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: homosexual; homosexualagenda; pc; pcpolice; poofters; samesexdisorder; sodomites; vocabulary
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To: MadIvan
Well that took you all of 3 minutes to post. I love this stimulus/response thing...
To: Prodigal Son
Hmmm. How long before they consider it hate speech to use the word homosexual?That's still better than "turd miner" or "f__kin'faggot".
To: The Real Deal
That's still better than "turd miner" Wow! 21 minutes and it's part of the vocabulary.
To: MadIvan
Dear God, please tell me someone else out there sees the humor in that John Cleese photo. If you can't have a sense of humor (sorry - humour) on a thread like this, you really should check yourself by breathing against a mirror.
Ivan and I can't be the only ones who remember the Ministry of Silly Walks bit, can we?
To: Jeff Chandler
Good - but I'm kind of partial to "turd burgler" myself. It has just the right larcenous connotation for my sense of humor.
To: aruanan
Your definition of Banana will be permitted to stand but that definition for Car just won't suffice:
Cars will now be referred to as "multi-passenger mechanized conveyance".
Car - selfish mechanized conveyance designed to cause environmental impact and avoid mass transit.
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posted on
11/27/2002 12:59:05 AM PST
by
weegee
To: Jeff Chandler
Well what about the time honored: fudge packer, daisy, blue boy, d*ck-sucker, ball grabber....?
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posted on
11/27/2002 1:00:44 AM PST
by
Stavka2
To: Jeff Chandler
Oooh, oooh, wait: pillow biter....yeah, can't forget that one. :0)
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11/27/2002 1:01:24 AM PST
by
Stavka2
To: chance33_98
instead use the phrase "orientation towards people of the same sex" to define gays and lesbians. Doesn't this discriminate against trees?
To: constable tom
You're not, you're not. How can England, the land that brough us Monty Python and Benny Hill, have sunk so low into PC quagmires?
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11/27/2002 1:05:26 AM PST
by
Stavka2
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To: The Real Deal
I had a friend of mine almost start a fight in front of me in a London steak house when the guy who had sat there before us asked him if he'd seen his faggots? T. jumped up and was ready to throw down, when I "humbly" interrupted him to inform him that the guy was looking for his cigarrets.
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posted on
11/27/2002 1:17:57 AM PST
by
Stavka2
To: MadIvan
So... if you call a c*ck-sucker...
a c*ck-sucker, is it an insult...
or a descriptive phrase???
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posted on
11/27/2002 1:31:21 AM PST
by
Nitro
To: MadIvan
Me too. Homosexual sounds like a statement of fact, not a slur. But I learned the hard way when running for a seat on my university's student government some 11 years ago that it's a no-no. I met before the GLAAD group to seek their endorsement, and used the term homosexual in our talks. One guy corrected me, said that they prefer the word gay.
I didn't get their endorsement, but neither did anyone else.
To: MadIvan
Well once they bann the word all the problems will be over..
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posted on
11/27/2002 1:45:25 AM PST
by
.45MAN
To: MadIvan
orientation towards people of the same sex Won't orienteers be offended? That's a bit wordy. Orientation Towards People Of The Same Sex = OTPOFTS. *L*
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posted on
11/27/2002 1:46:39 AM PST
by
Happygal
To: MadIvan
Stamping out the word homosexual.....
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posted on
11/27/2002 1:49:42 AM PST
by
.45MAN
To: Happygal
Won't orienteers be offended? That's a bit wordy. Orientation Towards People Of The Same Sex = OTPOFTS. *L* It could create a backlash. If I have to worry about the word "homosexual" being offensive, I may just as well say "poofters". ;)
Love, Ivan
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11/27/2002 1:51:05 AM PST
by
MadIvan
To: MadIvan
What I find funny, is that the majority of gay men I know..prefer to be called gays over anything else. How many words do they want?
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11/27/2002 1:53:14 AM PST
by
Happygal
To: constable tom
>>Ivan and I can't be the only ones who remember the Ministry of Silly Walks bit, can we?
My son has the t-shirt.
I think we should all settle on the classic "fudge-packer".
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