Comments on: NBA Commercial Snuffing Stereotypes http://thehoopdoctors.com/2011/05/nba-commercial-snuffing-stereotypes/ NBA Basketball News, Rumors, Videos Fri, 20 May 2011 13:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Carter http://thehoopdoctors.com/2011/05/nba-commercial-snuffing-stereotypes/#comment-24769 Fri, 20 May 2011 13:15:00 +0000 http://thehoopdoctors.com/?p=39045#comment-24769 I’m not anything-ist. All people are the same whatever their color, religion, social group etc etc. However (and shoot me down right away) this is dumb! ‘Gay’ until the mid-70’s mean pink, fluffy, and flowery, then the homosexual community decided to use it to describe themselves – it was not a derogatory term used against them, it was embraced by them.

So when a player pulls up for a 10 foot floater instead of attacking the rim, describing them with the word gay means weak (and pink, fluffy and flowery). A call on a touch foul is the same – it is not being used in a derogatory homophobic way, it is actually being used descriptively for the original meaning of soft.

Don’t get me wrong, gay is not a word I’d use anyway, but this politically correct BS as a result of a group claiming ownership of a word, then everyone claiming to be offended when it’s used for its original meaning is just a bit mad.

]]> By: Carter http://thehoopdoctors.com/2011/05/nba-commercial-snuffing-stereotypes/#comment-24770 Fri, 20 May 2011 13:15:00 +0000 http://thehoopdoctors.com/?p=39045#comment-24770 I’m not anything-ist. All people are the same whatever their color, religion, social group etc etc. However (and shoot me down right away) this is dumb! ‘Gay’ until the mid-70’s mean pink, fluffy, and flowery, then the homosexual community decided to use it to describe themselves – it was not a derogatory term used against them, it was embraced by them.

So when a player pulls up for a 10 foot floater instead of attacking the rim, describing them with the word gay means weak (and pink, fluffy and flowery). A call on a touch foul is the same – it is not being used in a derogatory homophobic way, it is actually being used descriptively for the original meaning of soft.

Don’t get me wrong, gay is not a word I’d use anyway, but this politically correct BS as a result of a group claiming ownership of a word, then everyone claiming to be offended when it’s used for its original meaning is just a bit mad.

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