That's SO Gay!

I am a little late on this one but I have an excuse: I have been working on some film reviews and watching some futebol matches. Sorry to abandon y'all like that.

Last week, London breakfast radio DJ, Chris Moyles was hanged, drawn and quartered for complaining that a mobile ring-tone sounded "gay". Well, he would have been if the BBC governors weren't a heap of limp-wristed pansies!

Apparently, Moyles was well within his rights because he was using the word "gay" to mean rubbish, as it is used in common playground parlance.

Well that's all okay then. Thank you BBC.

Yes, using "gay" to mean rubbish is a common semantic extension but what the BBC seems to have (purposely?) ignored is that this extension is built on the idea among the young that homosexuality is rubbish, a view gleaned from adults who hold homosexuality as a foil to masculinity.

In truth, I don't have a huge issue with how kids use "gay" in the playground. This misunderstanding of gaydom is going to be expressed in one way or another and it is slowly diminishing. I do have a problem though when a trendsetting institution such as the BBC legitimises such a practice.

What a bunch of funking fairies!

via New Queer World

Tags: BBC, gay, linguistics