In response to Kobe's "remark," former NBA player John Amaechi had this to say:
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Originally Posted by John Amaedchi
The problem we have now is because of the way we don't address homophobia, the ultimate insult to a man is to tell them either they're like a woman or worse, that they're gay.
We have to take it as unacceptable as a white person screaming the N-word at a black person. … I can tell you that I've been called a f——- fairly routinely, and yet people seem to hold off on calling me the N-word. We've got to mirror that progress.
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I find this interesting in light of a facebook conversation yesterday between me, Gemini Cricket, Morrigoon and Chernabog about gay insults vs. harmless phrases. Brad has (in the past, at least) deplored the use of "
that's go gay" as a version of lame accusation that relies on negative views of gay stereotypes. I, on the other hand, deplore when gay men refer to other gay men as "
girls," feeling it riffs too directly on the insult that gay men are equivalent to women (even though there's absolutely nothing wrong (far from it) with being a women. It's just that gay men
aren't.
Anyway, it seems to me like an interesting tangent of discussion ... perhaps.