Re: Willow Palin's homophobic Facebook rant
pcg <[email protected]>
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>Sure. But say we are having a discussion about someone...and one of the > things you use as a criticism against that person is their fatness. Is it > unfair if I cringe a little as a fat person? I mean, you are not talking > about me, but the fact that you consider fatness in this other person an > example of what's wrong with them...is it really unjust that it would sting > me a bit? The difference here is that the fatness being criticized and the fatness being for which you cringe are the same thing. When I call my day "gay," I am not calling it "homosexual." I'm using the word "gay" to mean something other than homosexual, just like people often use the word "gay" to mean something other than "joyful or carefree." -- -pcg [email protected] -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot