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Author Topic: ?% Villa (is that a thing, that % business?) Homophobia in Football  (Read 19278 times)

Online Ger Regan

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Re: ?% Villa (is that a thing, that % business?) Homophobia in Football
« Reply #150 on: September 23, 2017, 10:42:07 AM »
I would say that the phrase 'it's PC gone mad' generally comes from someone who doesn't want society to move forward beyond prejudice.
I've found that it's usually said non-ironically by those who would find mentally challenging to walk and talk at the same time.

Offline IAmTheOneIanOlney

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Re: ?% Villa (is that a thing, that % business?) Homophobia in Football
« Reply #151 on: September 23, 2017, 11:09:08 AM »
People who sing it probably think the Lukaku one is good fun or even a compliment. Missing the racial stereotype point.

Think you might have got it there, as I'm guessing some people would struggle to see how what they would perceive as a 'positive' could be construed as negative in any way.

Quite why a grown adult, particularly a grown man, would want to sing about someone else's todge at a football match is another question.
The actual football is incidental. I can't see why else someone would spend money, lots of it, to abuse other people for 90 minutes if it wasn't purely for the pleasure derived from doing so and the "legitimacy" the environment provides.

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Re: ?% Villa (is that a thing, that % business?) Homophobia in Football
« Reply #152 on: September 23, 2017, 11:16:24 AM »
Not saying it's right but Brighton fans have chants aimed at them every week and nothing is said or done. Now two women have complained about a few chants and it's in the press. It may have all been light hearted for all we know. It's a football match and banter occurs, people get called fat bastard or ginger bastard etc all the time.


My brother is gay, he is also ginger haired.
To my knowledge he has been badly beaten up because of one of those things three times.
I can bet you anything you like that the perpetrators weren't calling him a ginger bastard when kicking him.

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Re: ?% Villa (is that a thing, that % business?) Homophobia in Football
« Reply #153 on: September 24, 2017, 03:48:13 PM »
I would say that the phrase 'it's PC gone mad' generally comes from someone who doesn't want society to move forward beyond prejudice.

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