If You Want To Know Why The Spill Your Guts Thread Was Closed Read On

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

If people genuinely find it offensive and complain about it's use then we will take action, but as for now what I think isn't really relevant, I would ask you ask yourself why you'd want to use it knowing people find it inflammatory and it could cause trouble.

Like I said, I try to gauge the forum's environment as a whole. The issue of using that word in any context was never really addressed before, so I had no way to know how it would be received even as just a well-placed one-off. Recent developments however have shown that the odd use of "faggot" in a limited context doesn't seem to cause problems (it was JWB's tactless use of it, and his reputation for stirring **** up that caused all the drama), so I rolled with it.

It's not like I'm now going to start throwing it around with assumed impunity, but I judged that the time and place had made it comedically relevant in a topical way, and being me I wasn't about to let the opportunity go to waste. Still, I judged that even without this new edict the time for its acceptability, or at least comedic value, would have been short-lived, and therefore I was prepared to drop it once the "trend" had run its course. I'm not emotionally tied to making homophobic jokes, so if the "Age of Faggot" is now over it's no skin off my nose. I'm a tongue-in-cheek troll whose desire is to annoy, but not to actually offend (Unless of course you're a wannabe social crusader who I feel is just begging to have your nipples twisted.)

Of course in a perfect world I'd love to be able to use any joke I pleased, no matter how offensive, but even if I think this forum can be a bit oversensitive and touchy-feely for my taste, I still love its general atmosphere far more than many, more un-PC forums populated by legitimately bigoted white male twenty-somethings who bitch about feminism and whatnot. I was briefly a member of a comic book forum a little while ago, but male nerd culture can be repulsive at times, and so I never had any desire to make it my new go-to forum. Here I sometimes butt heads with more "comedically conservative" members, but there all of a sudden I felt like a mini-Sansa. It made me feel dirty.