Tuesday, June 14, 2011
That's gay...
I was sitting at my computer the other day and my wife had the radio playing a little distance away. Taylor Swift came on the radio singing "Picture to Burn" and I noticed that from the album version to the radio there was a part edited out. Now, before I write anything else, I have to clarify that I have no desire to be politically correct, though it does happen occasionally. The part that they edited out in this song now says, "...you won't mind if I say...” what it used to say was, "...I'll tell mine (friends) that you’re gay...". Now, apparently a girl singing about telling her friends that her ex-boyfriend is gay is offensive. I have to point out a flaw in this logic. If you are taking offense to this line, it can only be because you are either misunderstanding what she is saying, or you think that being gay is a bad thing. She simply said that she was going to tell her friends that the reason they broke up was because he liked men, and she is a women. Obviously, if he was gay, they would end up breaking up. Taylor Swift never said, in this song, that being gay was a bad thing, so, why did that line have to be edited out? This same logic can be applied to the phrase, "That's gay." It's only offensive if you take "gay" as a bad thing. Food for thought.
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LoL I wondered why you were taking such an interest in that song. Very nice!
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