"Getz is Gay"

[printdust]

printdust, what was your opinion when the ESPN First Take host made disparaging comments about Jesus at the Mike & Mike roast?

Don't watch it.

 

[Ace]

One time when I was playing youth baseball at age 15, I wrote "Danny sucks" in the white chalk near out dugout before the game.

Danny was our coach. Great guy. Really liked him. I was just being a stupid 15-year-old in charge of the chalk machine.

Danny benched me that game, and I could tell he was really hurt. I only used his name because I liked him and thought he would think it was a stupid, funny prank.

I hate that I hurt his feelings. Hated that it made him feel that all the time he spent with us kids wasn't appreciated.

I've done a lot of stupid stuff, but that's still one of my most memorable regrets.

 

[Stitch]

This is completely different than the hyper sensitive world you guys are talking about. Like racism, homophobia is a dangerous reality that has got to be combated. You call this hypersensitive... would it be hypersensitive if someone wrote the N-word, and then was criticized for it?

My guess is you will probably say "the N-word is different." Why, though? What makes the N-word different from "gay" or "faggot"? 60 years ago, it would have been called hypersensitive to call someone out for using the N-word in public. Now, thank God, we've realized that's simply not okay. Hopefully we'll get there soon with "gay".

And btw, Stitch, if an athlete used the word "retarded" in a post game presser.... how do you think that reaction would be?

What was LeBron's fine for this?



http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2011/05/10/lebron-james-apologizes-saying-retarded-press-conference/

 

[Azrael]

Uh-oh.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/06/30/tracy-morgan-retarded/

 

[Ace]

One time when I was playing youth baseball at age 15, I wrote "Danny sucks" in the white chalk near out dugout before the game.

Danny was our coach. Great guy. Really liked him. I was just being a stupid 15-year-old in charge of the chalk machine.

Danny benched me that game, and I could tell he was really hurt. I only used his name because I liked him and thought he would think it was a stupid, funny prank.

I hate that I hurt his feelings. Hated that it made him feel that all the time he spent with us kids wasn't appreciated.

I've done a lot of stupid stuff, but that's still one of my most memorable regrets.

If that's one of your most memorable regrets, you're doing pretty well for yourself.

I've always been a huge fan of playing juvenile pranks on my teammates or opponents, but athletes need to know better these days. If Beckham wrote "Getz sucks," it would've been funny AND avoided a PC shirtstorm afterward. It's really not that difficult.

It's memorable because I thought I was just being silly and kind of honoring him in a way. But he didn't take it that way at all.

That's one reason the "It's just a joke" defense doesn't work for me.

I've done a lot worse, though.

 

[outofplace]

Just my opinion, but I think people have become way too sensitive to stuff like this.

Easy for you to say when you're not the object of the derision.

Exactly, though it also shows a significant lack of empathy or sense of fairness.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Just my opinion, but I think people have become way too sensitive to stuff like this.

I'm with you.

 

[JR]

Just my opinion, but I think people have become way too sensitive to stuff like this.

I'm with you.

Well, being too sensitive about homophobia is a non-starter.

Beckham's personal growth apparently ended some time in middle school. Only 12 year olds think calling someone gay is a "joke"

 

[Mizzougrad96]

He shouldn't have done it, but the sanctimonious outrage is worse than anything he did.

 

[qtlaw]

See if you're straight, no one ever makes fun of you because you're a heterosexual, you're hetero, call me a hetero, what's the big deal?

If you're gay, but you have felt the persecution and ridicule that people have thrown towards you, your friends, other known gays, its no big deal to throw the gay label around.

But hey, if you've never felt it, you probably think everyone is just being oversensitive because its just one word.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

So, he could have written "Getz is a forking asshole" and it would have gotten 1/100th of the attention.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

See if you're straight, no one ever makes fun of you because you're a heterosexual, you're hetero, call me a hetero, what's the big deal?

If you're gay, but you have felt the persecution and ridicule that people have thrown towards you, your friends, other known gays, its no big deal to throw the gay label around.

But hey, if you've never felt it, you probably think everyone is just being oversensitive because its just one word.

I'm guessing the people who are outraged by this are not gay people. It's the PC police and those who just love to be "outraged" over something that merits little more than a roll of the eyes.