Dear South Park: Stop Being A*sholes
Last week's South Park was a stupid episode about how the boys wanted to call Harley riders "faggots," and how much they (read: Matt and Trey) love that word and how "let's face it, people will never stop using the word fag because it's just too fun to say!" By the end of the episode, the word has been spoken and written hundreds of times, the boys never apologize, the gay community is cool with it, and the town of South Park officially reclaims the word "faggot" for the people and deem it OK for use. The only problem with that is that the word "faggot" is the gay equivalent of the n-word, and it's not OK to use, ever, even when there's no gay people around to hear it. It's the word that almost invariably accompanies fatal gay bashings and other hate-fueled criminal acts, and condoning it condones homophobia, no matter how cleverly you've done your etymological research and learned it once meant a bundle of sticks. South Park are a*sholes for basically telling their audience it's cool to go around using it. So f*ck you for that, South Park.
But fine, whatever, so they made a mistake. It's not like I'm going to stop watching a show that has given me so much pleasure over the years just because they don't realize that people who say faggot and think it's cool are raging as*holes. But then what was was the deal with yesterday's opening? This excruciatingly long sequence relayed via P.A. system where a third-grade boy is taken hostage by a gunman, who shoots an adult then places the barrel of a gun into the kid's mouth and blows his head off? I realize you guys love being on the bleeding edge of the news, but are you f*cking kidding me? It's not fu*king funny! Quit it, already! Quit being a*sholes!
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Thank you, Seth.
Hey man, I understand what your saying, But who gave to word such an awful meaning in the first place? Ignorant people, and to stop using the word is to keep their ignorance ongoing. This episode was to dilute the negativity and show people that WE give the word meaning, it did not give meaning to itself. We have to destroy the ignorance and use this word the way it was meant to be used. Fag's are also cigarettes. Gay is to be happy, but through ignorance we have forgotten the meaning of these words and stopped using them inorder to be politically correct, when in fact we should continue using these words and not let ignorance rule us.
Screw you abromovich. Go back to Israel and shoot little kids for throwing rocks at tanks.
Get over it you overly-sensitive Faggot.
Hey fag. I think it was hilarious! Get a job queer
THE FUCK?
OH NO YOU DIII'NT
Wow....If you even think this 'blog' entry will get anywhere...it wont. You get on South Park for using the word 'fag' yet you deep fat fry your own entry with 'bad' words everywhere? You sound more like a 13 year old boy having a hormone fit than a journalist.
I agree that the F word is like the N word. And like the N word, I hate it when people spew crap about "reclaiming" such words. You can embrace a word with negative connotations all you want and try to imbue it with positive qualities or whatever, but at the end of the day, when some bigot calls you said word, it hurts just the same.
Your use of a photo of grieving US soldiers to make your whiney little point is much more disgusting than what South Park did.
Those soldiers have nothing to do w/ South Park and you use them to emphasize your point.
The Day after Veterans day Seth Abromovitch decides it's OK to use the troops.
SICK SICK SICK!
South Park has always been known to take every little thing one step ahead, but honestly I saw nothing wrong with this episode.
The whole "faggot" thing being the equivalent of the n-word is flat out wrong. For one thing, as stated on the episode itself, the word fag used to mean cigarettes, and other definitions there after. Saying that the word is meant only to insult homosexuals is silly, after all the word "Gay" didn't use to mean homosexual.. Remember the Flintstones theme song? They weren't talking about homosexuals.
Though Matt and Trey like to have their laughs "It's always for the Lulz", they did have a point in this episode. It's fact that many people use the word fag to describe people who irritate or bother them. I know of a few homosexual friends who use the word fag to describe people who annoy them.
Aside from all of that, let them have their fun. No one was seriously offended by this episode, people just like to have things to complain about. Eventually they'll grow up too.
P.S: You spelled "assholes" wrong on the URL.
seth, you dont seem to understand that language is specific to regions, one thing might mean something in this area but totally different in another, same thing with body gestures, faggot has a bad cognition in our culture as it has been connected with homosexuals but faggot in the past has been applied to different individuals or situations previously, you are a little b*tch by taking offense to this and support all of south parks work when they make an eposiode someone who gets offended by it obviously is not open minded and is a little b*tch, if you would have paid attention to the whole show instead of being offended they went through the history of the definitions of the word faggot and outlined the different meanings, in our culture it means "x" but else where it is something totally different, i hope to meet you someday just to laugh at you becuase you make up the worst and i mean worst population of america, you conservative minded ( not politically just in reference to not being open to anythin ) little B*TCH
Tried to watch SP, hate it. I don't support stuff that isn't funny, regardless of the orientation of the idiots making it. There is not many things easier in a capitalist society than not supporting a TV show in order to get it replaced. Unfortunately, there are too many that apparently like what the show spits out, so the creators will keep making the cow pies and continue to throw them in your face until you can't eat any more. Meanwhile, I laugh at you. You choose to watch a stupid show, which continues to somehow improve your life. Wow. It must have started out REALLY exciting.
Don't try to make you're lack off sense of humor, look like something deep.
Er, you insulting him like that just makes you look like an idiot. What did he do for you to call him a b*tch? He stated his opinion, we argue with it, but you don't really see any of us insulting him for stating what he believes. And unfortunately, you my friend are the one who makes up the worst in America. Those who insult others simply because they're hiding behind the Internet are nothing more than hypocritical tools.
tl;dr version: Grow up.
So is this, like, post-post-ironic?
Barely literate South Park fans, prove that you missed the point!
On Glee last night the father of the gay kid received an anonymous phone-call calling his kid a "fag." But it's totally cool now because of South Park.
All of these comments are ironic, right? My meter is off today, and I think maybe my thinking there are a bunch of unexplained comment mouthbreathers might be me just not getting the joke.
Right?
Please note: each post that supports the usage of "faggot" contains at least one spelling, grammar or punctuation error.
OMG you guys are like spoiling every show I missed last night.
Waah, a TV show offended my delicate sensibilities. It's a word, anyone can use it. The point of the show (other than being funny and entertaining, of course) was that the word "faggot" has been around a long time before someone decided to use it as a gay slur. But if you want to base which words you use around what assholes and homophobes and bigots say, that's fine. Just know that if you stop using every word an asshole misuses, you're not going to have many words left.
It's a fucking word, get over it.
Wow, these comments are shocking. Just so you know, I'm with you Seth. I didn't enjoy last week's episode in the least, and don't agree with it's message. Although 'look at me' Harley riders are annoying, and that was funny.
No matter how a word is used in the past(or in the future for that matter) or in different regions, words have their meaning in their current time and place, and people's language carries weight. Most people versed in a certain language know how they're using it...or at the very least should be aware of how they're using it.
For instance, if you went over to England and held up two fingers in someone's face, you'd be giving them the equivalent of the US middle finger, and might find yourself in a fight. You wouldn't run around insisting that it doesn't mean shit because you're from America. You would stop doing that. The same thing goes for the word in question.
I'm less offended by the word, and more offended by being told to get over it.
Was that some sort of profound point of discussion that this word at one time meant something else, and may years from now change yet again? WOW. Point being is that the way it's being used at this moment is typically as slander. The N-word may be reclaimed, but if someone is yelling it while they're kicking someone to the ground, they probably don't mean "we tight".
You can use any words you want, but don't tell me it's because gays have no reason to complain, that we have all the same rights and should start reclaiming anything.
No, the point is, it's not about the word, it's about context. PC idiots go around thinking they can cure every problem through nomenclature. It doesn't work that way. There are much more important battles to be fought, and it's important to choose them wisely.
wowzers! Looks like they just got the interwebs down in the deep fat fried south, and they've already learned how to post comments!
But how do these "special" commenters find Movie Line in the first place? Teh Google? The South Park message boards? A dog whistle?
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