Banana Thrown at Wayne Simmonds

[Physical_Graffiti]

It's more like "I'm too sensitive to think about what's actually being said to fully grasp it". If I were to refer to DJs as "spinsters" older women shouldn't be offended by it, because it literally has nothing to do with them.

[Rylan]

Very interesting thinking... gay people should just stop being so sensitive about the slurs I use so I can continue to use them at my leisure.

Getting offended when its not even in a context referring to homosexuality just brings the stigma back on them. If you were born in the 90s you would actually notice that it rarely if ever refers to gays.

Again, interesting thinking. It's their fault they get offended that I use slurs and it's ok because everyone else does it. It sounds a lot like "I'm too lazy to consider what I'm saying so those people it affects should just deal with it."

You don't understand, the word is evolving into something that isn't a slur. It doesn't have the connotation in my generation that it does yours. Its turned into what P_G and I have both agreed to. We are similar in age yet many miles away. This shows the word is evolving not just in my pocket of life, but in many areas.

[Physical_Graffiti]

Very interesting thinking... gay people should just stop being so sensitive about the slurs I use so I can continue to use them at my leisure.

Getting offended when its not even in a context referring to homosexuality just brings the stigma back on them. If you were born in the 90s you would actually notice that it rarely if ever refers to gays.

Again, interesting thinking. It's their fault they get offended that I use slurs and it's ok because everyone else does it. It sounds a lot like "I'm too lazy to consider what I'm saying so those people it affects should just deal with it."

EDIT: I'm sure this was the same reasoning people used the n word so much back before the Civil Rights movements. I go back to my earlier point... in 30 years, I am willing to bet the f word is more like the n word and doesn't go the other way and become regular usage. I may be wrong, but I'd bet on it.

I thought that was the reason black people use it now?

[Kaizer]

^ what they said. i highly doubt its going to be looked at like the "n" word ever, because the use of the word is loosening, not the other way around. they dont even bleep it on TV anymore.

[bhaw]

It's more like "I'm too sensitive to think about what's actually being said to fully grasp it". If I were to refer to DJs as "spinsters" older women shouldn't be offended by it, because it literally has nothing to do with them.

You say potato, I say po-tot-o. I find it ridiculous that people are incapable of expressing yourself without using terms like that.

You don't understand, the word is evolving into something that isn't a slur. It doesn't have the connotation in my generation that it does yours. Its turned into what P_G and I have both agreed to. We are similar in age yet many miles away. This shows the word is evolving not just in my pocket of life, but in many areas.

As I said... in the 30s, calling black people the n word was common usage. Now not so much. My guess is that you will lose your "I don't really mean the f word even though I'm saying the f word" definition as gay rights take off.

[Rylan]

It's more like "I'm too sensitive to think about what's actually being said to fully grasp it". If I were to refer to DJs as "spinsters" older women shouldn't be offended by it, because it literally has nothing to do with them.

You say potato, I say po-tot-o. I find it ridiculous that people are incapable of expressing yourself without using terms like that.

You don't understand, the word is evolving into something that isn't a slur. It doesn't have the connotation in my generation that it does yours. Its turned into what P_G and I have both agreed to. We are similar in age yet many miles away. This shows the word is evolving not just in my pocket of life, but in many areas.

As I said... in the 30s, calling black people the n word was common usage. Now not so much. My guess is that you will lose your "I don't really mean the f word even though I'm saying the f word" definition as gay rights take off.

That's the difference you don't get. The word, in my generation, no longer applies to gays. We aren't going up to gays and saying hey "f". Thats not how it is used at all.

[Physical_Graffiti]

^ what they said. i highly doubt its going to be looked at like the "n" word ever, because the use of the word is loosening, not the other way around. they dont even bleep it on TV anymore.

I don't think anything should be sensored, but that's a topic for another thread

[Rylan]

^ what they said. i highly doubt its going to be looked at like the "n" word ever, because the use of the word is loosening, not the other way around. they dont even bleep it on TV anymore.

I don't think anything should be sensored, but that's a topic for another thread

Is that how they spell censored in Canada?

[bhaw]

So you're telling me that if there was a group of 18 year old gay teenagers in the same room as you and your friends calling each other the f word, they would be totally cool with it? I'm going to call BS.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think it's generational. I think it's demographical (not a word but I'm sticking with it) with you and P_G.

[bhaw]

^ what they said. i highly doubt its going to be looked at like the "n" word ever, because the use of the word is loosening, not the other way around. they dont even bleep it on TV anymore.

I don't think anything should be sensored, but that's a topic for another thread

Is that how they spell censored in Canada?

No. Just misspelled If anything, it would have been censoured.

[Physical_Graffiti]

^ what they said. i highly doubt its going to be looked at like the "n" word ever, because the use of the word is loosening, not the other way around. they dont even bleep it on TV anymore.

I don't think anything should be sensored, but that's a topic for another thread

Is that how they spell censored in Canada?

How do you know that I'm not referring to a device, such as a photoelectric cell, that receives and responds to a signal or stimulus?

[Physical_Graffiti]

So you're telling me that if there was a group of 18 year old gay teenagers in the same room as you and your friends calling each other the f word, they would be totally cool with it? I'm going to call BS.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think it's generational. I think it's demographical (not a word but I'm sticking with it) with you and P_G.

Aren't generational and demographical the same thing? If we're in the same generation then we are in the same demographic, no?

[Kaizer]

i guess dan bylsma shouldnt say "grind these ******** down" because its offensive to women, no matter what context he's using it, and he is less than human. not to mention a doltish idiot for not finding a more eloquent way to express himself to his players.

[bhaw]

i guess dan bylsma shouldnt say "grind these ******** down" because its offensive to women, no matter what context he's using it, and he is less than human.

Thanks for another quality addition to the conversation. It really added insight.

[bhaw]

So you're telling me that if there was a group of 18 year old gay teenagers in the same room as you and your friends calling each other the f word, they would be totally cool with it? I'm going to call BS.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think it's generational. I think it's demographical (not a word but I'm sticking with it) with you and P_G.

Aren't generational and demographical the same thing? If we're in the same generation then we are in the same demographic, no?

No. Generational implies everyone of your generation is in agreement. Age is a piece of demographics, not the whole thing.

[Kaizer]

i guess dan bylsma shouldnt say "grind these ******** down" because its offensive to women, no matter what context he's using it, and he is less than human.

Thanks for another quality addition to the conversation. It really added insight.

so dan gets a pass?

[Rylan]

So you're telling me that if there was a group of 18 year old gay teenagers in the same room as you and your friends calling each other the f word, they would be totally cool with it? I'm going to call BS.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think it's generational. I think it's demographical (not a word but I'm sticking with it) with you and P_G.

That's just it, you aren't in our generation. They use it just as much towards the straight kids. Besides, the gay kids are generally part of the you and your friends group anymore.

[bhaw]

So you're telling me that if there was a group of 18 year old gay teenagers in the same room as you and your friends calling each other the f word, they would be totally cool with it? I'm going to call BS.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think it's generational. I think it's demographical (not a word but I'm sticking with it) with you and P_G.

That's just it, you aren't in our generation. They use it just as much towards the straight kids. Besides, the gay kids are generally part of the you and your friends group anymore.

Lol... I don't know what your view of people in their late 20s is, but believe it or not, we hang out with gay people too

[Rylan]

So you're telling me that if there was a group of 18 year old gay teenagers in the same room as you and your friends calling each other the f word, they would be totally cool with it? I'm going to call BS.

What I'm getting at is that I don't think it's generational. I think it's demographical (not a word but I'm sticking with it) with you and P_G.

That's just it, you aren't in our generation. They use it just as much towards the straight kids. Besides, the gay kids are generally part of the you and your friends group anymore.

Lol... I don't know what your view of people in their late 20s is, but believe it or not, we hang out with gay people too

Was pointing out that they are our friends now. Not implying that everyone ostracizes gays outside my generation.

[Gaucho]

late to the party, but props to bhaw in this thread.

IMO, anyone beyond a teenager that still uses the word in this discussion is a dolt that I wouldn't like to be associated with. A total display of stupidity and ignorance.

You must be old, otherwise you would know that, thanks to excessive usage by ignorant and dumb teens, the word does not mean what it means anymore.

[shafnutz05]

"WHEN WE GET OUT ON THE ICE, I'M GOING TO MESS YOU UP....YOU....YOU.....PERSON GENETICALLY DISPOSED TO HARBOR NATURAL FEELINGS TOWARDS PEOPLE OF THE SAME GENDER! SO THERE!"

[Gaucho]

You nailed it. The problem is not the word itself, it's thinking that a genetical disposition is wrong/bad/inferior and thus can be used as an insult against others. Thanks, shad.

[Physical_Graffiti]

You nailed it. The problem is not the word itself, it's thinking that a genetical disposition is wrong/bad/inferior and thus can be used as an insult against others. Thanks, shad.

That's not it at all.

[Gaucho]

No?

[Physical_Graffiti]

late to the party, but props to bhaw in this thread.

IMO, anyone beyond a teenager that still uses the word in this discussion is a dolt that I wouldn't like to be associated with. A total display of stupidity and ignorance.

You must be old, otherwise you would know that, thanks to excessive usage by ignorant and dumb teens, the word does not mean what it means anymore.

Good one "verbal-luddite".

Words change, yo: Gay means funny, funny means "off", "off" means "not right", not right means it's "dumb". I just explained to you the evolution of the word, now you are no longer ignorant .