Oh come on.. get serious! Or maybe I should say, "loosen up!"
1) Since when is the word "gay" considered a bigoted slur? 2) He didn't say a person was gay, he said a product was gay. 3) Even if you apply it in a "person" context, last I checked, homosexuals refer to themselves as "gay", so it's obviously not a "bad word". Unless you have something against gay people, Matthew? 4) "gay" has multiple meanings, it wasn't invented for the purpose of identifying homosexuals, either in a positive, negative, or neutral manner. Calling it a slur is worse than using the word the way Alex did... because you're basically saying that ANYONE who uses the word "gay", including homosexual people themselves, are using a slur. 5) It is absolutely insane how people overreact and take everything so personally when someone doesn't use 100% political correctness. God help us if Alex says "Merry Christmas" next month or tells a joke about a midget that walked into a bar, blah blah blah. You might have a coronary. Now if he had called someone a "fag", then you would have ground to stand on -- that could be considered a slur by some people these days. (Cigarette references not withstanding) Relax and don't be so uptight. It's not like he insulted your dead mother's honor or something. Sheesh. :-) -- Nick On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > There's a difference between slang and a bigoted slur. If you don't > know the difference, you should learn it now. I don't need to be a saint > to point out basic manners of speaking in public. If you think so little > of this -biz community, please just stay out of it. > > > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:06 -0500, Alex Pilosov wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Matthew Rubenstein wrote: > > > > > Not only is that comment useless in pure business terms, but using > > > the word "gay" like that poisons business relationships, and demeans the > > > entire community. > > Blah blah blah. Look at the halo above Matthew's head. > > > > Sometimes slang is the only thing that adequately captures the inherent > > stupidity. > > > > Anyway, this is ridiculous. Business relationships? Entire "Community"? On > > asterisk-biz? You must be joking. -biz has become a soapbox for Rehan > > AhmedWallahBismillah etc and a kindergarden of tin-can-and-asterisk > > providers. > > > > -alex > > > -- > > (C) Matthew Rubenstein > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
