If you offend me, you must be homosexual
World-class tennis asshole Lleyton Hewitt has done it again, this time offending gays in Australia and anywhere else where people follow sports.
As obnoxious as we may find Hewitt's remark, though, is calling someone who upsets you a homosexual any different from callling a man who upsets you a woman? Or a douchebag? Or a personal body part of either gender? Liberals are always faulting conservatives for treating sexuality as though it were sinful, but they are just as quick as anyone else to imply that all sexual body parts equal dirt and slime.
Where I come from, that's called hypocrisy.
As obnoxious as we may find Hewitt's remark, though, is calling someone who upsets you a homosexual any different from callling a man who upsets you a woman? Or a douchebag? Or a personal body part of either gender? Liberals are always faulting conservatives for treating sexuality as though it were sinful, but they are just as quick as anyone else to imply that all sexual body parts equal dirt and slime.
Where I come from, that's called hypocrisy.
posted by Diane at 6:02 PM
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Half of the insults referencing homosexuality have something to do with insulting women anyway. Most notably, the Guvernator's "girly men" comment. And how many times a night does Jon Stewart call someone a pussy?
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Anonymous, at
8:26 PM
Absolutely. Recently, a young male friend of mine was ranting about some terrible persona and said, "Pardon me, but he's a douchebag, and that's the only appropriate word for him." "No," I said, "it isn't appropriate because you're saying my vagina is objectionable."
He had to stop and think about it.
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Diane, at
8:50 PM
Yeah, Stewart loves to call people douchebags, too, especially Robert Novak. And tonight's show included a nice little segment about how the Beltway & media are like a sorority house.
The whole douchebag thing never made sense to me. Do douches actually have bags? Plus, who wants a vagina that smells like rain or freesia? Creepy.
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Anonymous, at
12:13 AM
Yes, the old ones had bags.
Douchebags--or whatever paraphernalia--are offensive, too, I agree.
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Diane, at
8:21 AM
And that's one of the reasons I don't watch Jon Stewart that much anymore.
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Diane, at
8:20 PM
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