madame_zora
Sexy Member
That would be an expensive uphill battle. You'd have to point to a definition of "ho", which would be tougher than some think, since common - and, incidentally, despicable - modern usage doesn't actually mean "whore" in any meaningful sense. "Whore" as a slang synonym for "prostutite" wouldn't be so difficult to demonstrate. But if he said "ho", that's not quite the same.
It really doesn't warrant this much analysis. Imus decides to call a group of trained, hard-working athletes a bunch of "nappy-headed hos out there", no one really needs to debate what he meant. It was derrogatory on both a racist and sexist level, and if you haven't heard anyone bitching about sexism on this site, you sure haven't read many of MY posts. Yes, it's a little lonely being one of the very few women on here, and knowing how often the majority membership of MEN think I'm a whiny little bitch, but I do it anyway. Why do you think I'm so passionate about gay rights? It's because I know how it feels to be disregarded based on something that's just a part of my nature. It fucking sucks.
There's NO difference in the effects of racism, sexism, or discrimination based on orientation. It's ALL bullshit, and yes I DO stand up for these issues, every chance I get. It's not realistic to say I care about one to the exclusion of the others, completely untrue.
How much harder should these girls have to work to gain respect for their accomplishments? No matter how hard they work, what obstacles they have to overcome to succeed in a world where they are viewed as "less than" right out of the gate, some archaic old fat white fuck can still brush them off as "nappy-headed hos" and sit on his self-righteous ass and feel smug. ANYONE on the receiving end of this would be insulted, funny it's white guys who are not, and don't see it. I'm disappointed.
What also needs to be understood is that the boundaries of "political" speech were left undefined. It's not up to me, or you, or some activist, or a mob of the hoi polloi to determine those boundaries. And a good thing, too - it's all that keeps life in a society soaked with PC extremists tolerable.
Okay, so we're back to conservatism, that's fine. Looks like this one landed square in the lap of big business, whose responsibility is to its share holders. I'm satisfied with that. Americans get to vote with our money, and I don't think we feel like supporting racist, sexist, antiquated old bastards like Imus. I'm glad it came up, as I said, I always like it when idiots talk.
He shouldn't have called anyone "hos". But that's sexism, maybe. I don't see anyone bitching about sexism here. This is just another LPSG racist rant about the evils of whitey. Fuck that.
Well, if you're asserting that whitey has no responsibility for that image, that's insane. I'm the first to bitch about the share women have in the negative views men have of us, not to take ownership of the obvious is mere scapegoating, and it makes "whitey" look like exactly what he probably is.
Fortunately, there are fewer and fewer "whities" out there who are still holding fast to their supremacist attitudes, and fewer and fewer Americans willing to tolerate them. Haha, there's an lpsg-style outing going on, and the fucktards who have been safely hiding their filth in the shadows are going to have to start answering for who they really are and what they stand for. If he ain't a big enough boy to stand behind his words, he's a big fat hairy pussy. I'm just glad everyone gets to see it.
By the way, this isn't about just one particular phrase, it's about the fact that he obviously feels that black women are not deserving of respect that he would pay other athletes. Yeah, fuck that guy. I don't want him apologising for a remark. He needs to apologise for BEING a racist, not saying a racist thing, that's just a symptom. Frankly, I don't need an apology at all, I never do. I'm happy enough when everyone else gets to point and laugh and say "Look at the retard, thank GOD most of us have outgrown that kind of ridiculous thinking".