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FKAGobucks877 said:
Horseshit (no offense). We're asking for people to stop gay-bashing so that it doesn't tarnish (or further tarnish) BP's reputation, let alone its chances of cultivating any serious relationship with tOSU in parts or as a whole. Mililani can compare this to bashing of scUM, but nobody has ever complained about that, and we have gotten specific complaints with regard to all the "homo" talk. It is definitely NOT too much to ask to let this subject drop.
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Okay, well what's next? Do you want me to stop cussing? Stop making fun of how little alcohol you can handle 'cause it hurts your feelings? Quit telling Donny and TG05 that they're jackasses when they do something stupid?
 
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The issue isn't whether we can talk about gay rights, or even a story about a gay rights group being mad at some stupid fucking TV show.. the issue is use of the word "Homo" over and over and over and over and over....

There is nothing wrong with conversation about whether GLADD should be pissed at Idol. There is something wrong with the continued gay bashing. I guess I don't know how else to say it.

There may have been a time when Thump typing "Homo" was funny. It's not funny anymore.
 
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
While I don't disagree with anything you or Clarity have said or asked of the rest of us members, I do think that it goes against everything that this site was founded on. If this has to change, where does it end? Eventually we will have to restructure the entire site.
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Clarity founded the site. Clarity asked that this specific type of bashing be stopped.

Any questions?

FWIW, we COULD have a rational and reasonable discussion using the terms in question. Fact of the matter is that 95% of the time these terms are used in a derogitory manner. Enough. Maybe if folks showed that they could handle the responsibility of discussing such topics without resorting to bashing and demeaning a segment of society we could allow such freedom again. We deal with much more difficult and passionate topics in the political forum without resorting to the lowest common denominator ... why not this topic?
 
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
Okay, well what's next? Do you want me to stop cussing? Stop making fun of how little alcohol you can handle 'cause it hurts your feelings? Quit telling Donny and TG05 that they're jackasses when they do something stupid?
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Well, let's see, you got half right...:lol:

Look, I don't see a problem with most of this thread...except for one thing - Clarity has asked us to tone this down. Even then, the beginnings of this thread are toned down, but then we get people trying to take it just one step further, and all the sudden we're past joking and we're into insulting. On top of that, we have Thump (and others, I'm not trying to single him out here, but he is kind of where this innocently started) just spouting off the word "homo" left and right for no reason whatsoever. I don't think that it would change the integrity of this site if, as a favor, us masses laid off the homo stuff for a while. That's all.

By the way, BKB can't spell for shit, and you can't drink at all. Besides that, you have twigs for arms, and you throw like a girl.
 
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FKAGobucks877 said:
Horseshit (no offense). We're asking for people to stop gay-bashing so that it doesn't tarnish (or further tarnish) BP's reputation, let alone its chances of cultivating any serious relationship with tOSU in parts or as a whole. Mililani can compare this to bashing of scUM, but nobody has ever complained about that, and we have gotten specific complaints with regard to all the "homo" talk. It is definitely NOT too much to ask to let this subject drop.
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Just so no one missed it. Well said, FKA.
 
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If the main concern was the fact that "other" people can see what we are saying here in OD, then why not make this a private area? Which I suggested in the "Buckeye Planet" discussion???

I thought another point of this was that the PC police were not going to be invading this area? Which apparently it has with full force. Am I wrong? Was that not said?
 
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The original post of this thread had nothing to do with gay-bashing at all, except for asking if AI was itself guilty of bashing. Then some posters followed up with some humorous, but no where near insulting, comments on how they understood why the AI panelists made the comments they did. Sheesh, look at the kid's picture...he purposely and brazenly dressed to make himself look effeminate and when panelists made the obviously expected comments, he went to a hissy fit (oops, is "hissy fit" non-PC?).

To tell the truth, I was a bit surprised to hear that Simon called the kid out, because I always suspected Simon as being gay himself...
 
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I'm saying right now - again, for those who didn't hear - that we are not talking about widespread censorship. What we are talking about is a request of BP members and an expectation of those who directly represent the site to not engage in the excessive denigration of any race, religion or sexuality or any individual affiliated thereto. If a healthy debate arises from the use of a word like "homo," then get your camera ready because I'll be dancing the cutest little jig you ever fucking saw, because that's what I love about this place. If we continue to see threads like this, that serve no other purpose than to give outside observers a reason to discount or discredit the site, then prepare for the repercussions to which 3yards referred previously. Furthermore, likening all this to saying "Fuck Michigan" is not a reasonable justification. This site was created for the sole purpose of harboring and engendering the fanbase of The Ohio State University and its athletics.

"I hate homosexuals."

"I hate Michigan."

One of these statements is widely accepted to be part of the culture of Ohio State and its fans.

One of them is not.

This is a pretty crystal clear issue, and I'm getting frustrated about the difficulty we're having getting it under control. There is a hell of a lot to do and say here on BuckeyePlanet that doesn't involve the things we're discouraging here, so don't pretend that anyone is saying anything unreasonable. If all this needs to come from Clarity, so be it. I will implore him to repeat himself.
 
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