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Originally Posted by southernbelle
I agree, and I think it's ridiculous that they're labeling him a "homophobe." I think the majority of the people who are so quick to throw that word around don't even understand what it means.
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See it's funny you should say that, because I was trying to research where the term came from. , Where I'm from, 'faggot' means a big meatball and 'fag' means cigarette, I think it was originally American culture that developed the word as a term for homosexuality but I still can't figure out where it came from!
I understand it to be like any other label, it can be used either way. Friends of mine who are gay have no problem calling me a fag hag, or using the term to label themselves, but at the same time, you say the word with hate and it becomes a term of hate.
It is just a word, just the same as any other label of choice is, and the word itself is not per se offensive, it is the manner in which it is said usually. In this case Isaiah lost his temper and forgot his tact. I very much doubt that if it had just been said on set they would have fired him. I'm also sure that if he hadn't been kicking off at most of the cast members, to the point where his temper tantrums were bigger than the show, he wouldn't have been fired. He was given a time-out like a naughty toddler, and it still didn't make up for it, so he got put out in the cold. I think it shows the sort of person he is that he cannot accept it with begrudging grace, put his hands up and say 'ok so I screwed up, I'll try to do better in future' and instead postures and poses like an arrogant teenager with a bruised ego.
More fool him, the way he's going this is all he's going to be remembered for.