http://www.theadvocates.org/ce.....arker.html

Annnnd the award for over-analysis goes to…

Yes.
They did that episode too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.....se_Jackson

GLAAD dwelling on just one word is not productive, kids can and will make any word an insult, I’d be very surprised if bullied child they mentioned didn’t hear a full rainbow full of off color remarks.

Why must things be one or the other? Extremism and absolutism does not result in productive discourse.

Even when it comes to LGBT people rush to categorize and exclude instead of focusing on larger shared goals, those four letters didn’t always go together.

The next time a gay person gets bashed or killed and the perpetrator uses the word “fag” as they did when Jorge Steven Lopez was beaten, killed, decapitated and burned on November 14, 2009 in Puerto Rico, I suppose you’ll just shrug off the “fag” slur. When these bastards are apprehended for hate crimes, they can now plead that they only used the term in jest, just like the panic defense m.o. Like the old addage…never is a truer word spoken in jest. With indifference like yours, you enable these haters to commit violent crimes against us, no matter the context in which slurs are used. Maybe if you’re the next victim you’ll think twice before dismissing dehumanizing slurs.

Didn’t think so.

I’ve been called ‘fag’ thousands of times probably but I just ignore it. Why? Because I can. To me the word ‘fag’ has long since lost its meaning.

GLAAD does not speak for me. I am not a member of some separate ‘gay’ community. And why would I want to get married and be all miserable like most married folks usually become after a few years of that marriage stuff.

Grow up people. I’m off watching Big Gay Al’s Big Gay Boatride.

I’m going to guess you haven’t gone outside and read a publication lately.

“And you have the nerve to call me an idiot for appreciating an excellent film that apparently hit too close to home for you?”

Hurf durf, everyone’s an idiot except you! Keep trying to feed your ego by declaring everyone morons and idiots and blaming whatever scapegoat comes into reach, my deluded friend.

“If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I’d be walking backward – and I don’t want to walk backward.”

- Harvey Milk, quoted in The Chronicle

These are not generalizations at all. Our government-run schools are idiot factories, but because of grade inflation kids who can barely read, write and add think they’re geniuses. We are falling behind other developed countries in terms of education. What passes for culture is stuff a monkey flings at onlookers at the zoo. When the government pisses on our head and says it’s raining, we get our umbrellas. Our collective attention span can be measured in seconds. We barely produce anything anymore other than piss, shit, garbage, and smoke because we’re too shiftless, lazy, and greedy and imbued with a sense of entitlement we don’t deserve. Our former industrial havens are one strangling regulation away from becoming ghost towns.

And you have the nerve to call me an idiot for appreciating an excellent film that apparently hit too close to home for you?

Yes, and every time someone calls another person a dick they’re making an invidious and profoundly misandrist comparison to male genitalia.

Thankfully not all gays are as lame as you are.

“South Park, a low-resolution low-tech silly potty-humor cartoon on a 4th-rate cable network aimed at 20-something stoner kids, is apparently too subtle (and smart) for the average American of today to even get.”

“My Mother the Car” reruns are too smart for the average American to get.

The movie “Idiocracy” is going to come true, but it won’t be 500 years from now. It’ll be more like 50 to 75.

“One of the messages I got was that most people would be too chicken to walk up to a biker and call him a fag. So it points out the cowardice of using it to harangue a (percieved) weaker person.”

It is depressing how dumbed-down America has become that so many can’t even see the trees for the forest.

GLAAD! has made fools of themselves and everyone who has ever given them money or supported them.

THAT is depressing.

South Park, a low-resolution low-tech silly potty-humor cartoon on a 4th-rate cable network aimed at 20-something stoner kids, is apparently too subtle (and smart) for the average American of today to even get.

Depressing, we are all doomed.

What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Better yet, where did he say that he calls his friends “nigger”? Please get your head out of your ass.

Read the poster’s comment that I responded to, jackass. Please return your head back to your ass, Jack.

Per your argument, whenever anyone says “lame” they’re clearly making an invidious comparison to people who are physically handicapped.

Right.

You stay classy, Victor. Way to empower the gay movement.

What the fuck does that have to do with anything? Better yet, where did he say that he calls his friends “nigger”? Please get your head out of your ass.

Its easy to make a point on a TV show, because you have complete control over all circumstances. The thing is, though, that before South Park you would not hear many people calling bikers “fags.” I’m a college student, recently out of high school, and can also attest that the word is mostly used to harass guys (jokingly or not) who are not conforming with their frat-boy-type friends. The connotation with homosexuality is still present. The people who deny this are of three types: the cowardly ones who harbor prejudices but refuse to admit it, the ones who harbor prejudices and refuse to believe it, and the ones who are somehow totally oblivious to the fact that they are perpetuating these prejudices. It’s basically the same deal as those people who say “I have nothing against gays, but I don’t believe in gay marriage.” It’s people wanting to express a prejudice without being labeled a bad person themselves.

Sure, it’s just a word. But with the recent unbelievable repeals of marriage laws, the campaign for LGBT rights is unfortunately moving backwards, and we’re being marginalized yet again. If people don’t respect us enough not to recognize and drop the use of a slur (as if abandoning an insult is something painfully difficult), that doesn’t give us much hope for the future.

For the people who really don’t get it, I just ask that they not use that kind of language around me. If they love the word so much that they can’t even do that, the friendship isn’t worth it.

Epic fail South Park. Massively epic fail.

Yet GLAAD had no problem with stereotypical shit like “Will & Grace” and “Queer as Folk”. Not to mention that awful movie where Adam Sandler and Kevin James are in a sham domestic partnership.