Spot on....I think people should have a better look at the meaning of Phobia. Having a laugh and joke about something doesn't constitute phobia. Having blonde hair was a source of ridicule my whole teenage life...but I look back on it as Banter. When however, it turns into "Slap a Ginger Day" as took place in Brighton schools just last week, well that's taking it to a different level. I think we have to be careful in the UK to not allow the place to turn into a Totalitarian nanny state because a few princesses can't take a joke.
In real life (I mean away from football) would you persist in what you considered a joke if the other person started to look upset. I wouldn't.
I go up to derby on business every week and tell the guys there they are northerners - winds them up. For me, north of Winchester in Ooooop North!
Hmmm....think you need to stop fantasising about posters being cocks and get with the debate. Or perhaps expand your vocabulary beyond meaningless intended insults that relate to our feathered friends.
Hmmm....think you need to stop fantasising about posters being cocks and get with the debate. Or perhaps expand your vocabulary beyond meaningless intended insults that relate to our feathered friends.
There's no debate, Cock 2. You're either homophobic, like yourself, and therefore wrong; or you're not and you're right.
Well, having spent the last twelve years living in Brighton and 10 before that in the Travel industry, having friends of all persuasions and backgrounds, I would guess I am not homophobic and therefore I am right as you yourself have said....so thank you for backing me up!!!!
So you lived in Brighton and worked in the travel industry so you couldn't POSSIBLY be homophobic How many of your "friends of all persuasions" did you refer to as "princesses" then? You do make me laugh, Cock 2.
Any of them, whether gay or straight or Bi, that were too precious to take a joke. If you knew anything about it, you would know that the vast majority of gay men are just as comfortable to poke fun at straight men, or breeders as they like to call us, as they are to have a laugh about their own sexuality. In my experience, the main group of people that have a problem with this kind of banter are the PC do-gooders that think they are doing minority groups a favour, whether that particular minority group wants it or not. Feel free to call me Cock 2 all you like, but this is clearly an argument/debate in which you clearly ill informed. And for the record, Phobia is the description for fear of..... Having a joke about the high population of homosexual men in Brighton, I don't think can be classed as a Phobia.
You can't justify "having a joke" at a minority group just by claiming that the people who are offended are "too precious". If a joke offends people, it's a decent thing to do to just leave it alone don't you think? I mean for Christ's sake, all you're losing out on is a couple of stupid chants at a football match. And for the record, being made fun of for being gay is not the same is being made fun of for being blonde. Gay-bashing, especially from moronic football supporters, can be pretty aggressive.
Finally, your talking a bit of sense rather than throwing petty insults at me. Of course, if someone is offended, then leave it alone. The point is though, that probably 99% of BHA supporters are not gay, and the banter is about the city they come from. In the same way you get the "who nicked my stereo" chants when Liverpool visit etc. But I disagree, Hair colour, skin colour, sexuality, anything that is subject to ridicule is the same. Most people that gay bash, have probably never knowingly met a gay man and their aggression towards that group is born out of ignorance....not phobia. I just don't see the "does your boyfriend...." chant as being particularly offensive and nor would the majority of gay men. But I agree with you, there is no place for aggression towards any minority group....banter yes....aggression no. Anyway, gotta be up at 4 so I'll leave it at that. Laters
