First, Kobe Bryant got fined one hundred grand for using the word f*****. Then it
was Joakim Noah getting fined FIFTY grand for using the same slur. Are people
missing the point when they get all flustered every time someone drops the other F word.
To paraphrase the late Patrick Swayze in the cult classic, Roadhouse......
"It's just a noun used to illicit a desired response." Shouldn't we more outraged by
the knuckleheads who prowl the streets looking to beat on same sex couples?
Forget the taboo nouns being tossed around by frustrated millionaires; the type of
people that commit violent acts against people like Matthew Shepard are what worry
me most. Yet, we're ready to light the torches when an athlete says a taboo word
regarding issues of sexual preference. Where is the outrage when self righteous members
of the Christian flock tell a gay or a lesbian that they're essentially going to hell because
they desire someone within their own gender? Right now, I don't care about
derogatory nouns being bandied about by frustrated athletes in the heat of competition.
You know what bothers me? It's the sight of watching a friend whose suffering from
AIDS being treated like radioactive waste by a narrow minded practitioner of medicine.
Intolerance exists, and no amount of pr spin will sanitize that fact. The best thing that we
can do, as a society, is to not become like the narrow minded idiots that gave life to
the very words that came of Kobe Bryant's mouth. The best thing that we can do,
as a society, is to NOT to be like that doctor; the one whose ignorance and
fear made him unable to deliver a little mercy and a little compassion to a dying soul.
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