Overzealous censorship in all its forms always gets me on the soapbox. Oppressive Big Brother regimes! Nothing worse than a puritanical prick who believes that suppressing information for your own good seems to be the best way. When they cite censorship of certain words such as scat, fuck and whore to protect suggestive juvenile minds, I can still tolerate that fact. Certainly wouldn't want a potty-mouthed toddler screaming swear words in between sucking milk bottles!
Toddler : Muthafucka! Get that bloody tit over here and gimme me my cunt-sucking milk now!
Not a pretty sight.
But when it comes to a primetime show like the Oscars with a presumably adult audience, I find it hard to believe that fanatical censorship still holds sway!
Deleting the word gay?
Got Milk?
Though honestly I gotta say it couldn't have happened at a gayer Oscars! Not only did the ever-droolsome host, Hugh Jackman lead a singing-dancing troupe ( with jazz hands! ) touting gay rights on a soapbox for the Oscar-nominated movie Milk in the opening act, he also suggestively leapt into the lap of another man in the front row. And with the presence of a movie like Milk - about a passionate gay rights activist who fought for equal rights - you can imagine how many significant bleeps popped up!
And all over the little word gay.
After being paraded through seamy downtown bars and annual city-wide parades, has the homosexual association with the happy word somehow tarnished its reputation? You mean these days even schoolchildren can't scream the dirty word gay without having their mouths washed with soap? Has it become taboo?
Seriously. What's the rationale behind their scissor-happy actions of our censorship board? Will saying the word instantly turn the audience gay? Will the whisper of gay marriage instantly have dozens of rabid male couples storming the city hall for a certificate? Hell I knew homosexuality was allegedly infectious but I never knew the rate of onset could be measured in milliseconds.
Obviously India thinks the same.
So? Do we ban the word rainbow next?
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One of my friends, whom I am out to, seems to feel very uncomfortable everytime I use the word gay in public spaces. It's really frustrating when he tells me that the reason he feels uncomfortable is because many people are not as "open" as me and find the word unacceptable.
Of course we know it's bullshit.
oh my.. I for one think that its not a dirty word! Its a word!!! Just a word!!
I hate it when gays out there think that THAT word itself is dirty.. I feel like smacking people who say things like "PLU". Just say gay or homosexual damn it!
Hey there Paul, it's been a while..
The recent explosion of lewd acts against the course of nature or 'carnal intercourse aka oral sex' being booked as an offense if peeped or peered or video-camed by another person non-other than the consenting individuals engaging in it. What's next? If the normal heteros cant enjoy kinky positions and should be instilling NORMAL SEX?! in holy matrimony, what's it to be for the pink society? Being gay in this country is an offense..not to mention using it to criminalize people by name-callings :X
Hahaha... I could just imagine what it's like for you guys to watch the Oscar... And i guess malaysia still has not changed in the least... Oh well!!
I was quite surprised that they really did censor the words "gay marriage" during sean penn's acceptance speech. I was like, wtf man... If they censored "gay" then they might as well censored it when he said "you commie, homo-loving sons of guns". But I guess those doing the censoring dont' quite know what that means huh...
How come when Sean Penn favours it, its cencosed, and when a news channel shuns it or hypes it negatively, its not?
I never could understand it!
Talkin about India, oh well! The scene is gettig better, after the first gay pride march last year!
The response actually forced the Courts to think about it. But abolishment of Secton 377 is still a far fetched dream for us :(
well, i guess that some of us just have to start using words like it's no big deal. it's only a big deal if you let it be a big deal.
let your mind define your reality.
they are so exxagerating. it's JUST A WORD!!!! since when the word 'gay' becomes a dirrty word?!
they are so afraid that everybody will turn gay if the word is said.
how unbelievable. and yet we live in the 21st century.
Takes a while to build tolerance, gay teen :)
Never liked the word PLU. Sounds odd, jase :P Rhymes with flu!
Censoring the word doesn't help either, helix.
Guess you have to come back and make a change, kenji!
Then again I wouldn't expect any better from our censors, perky.
Nothing like a dream, vice buddha and qsl.
If only they'd all turn gay at a word, luke :) The world would be so much more fabulous - though severely underpopulated.
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