South Park Tackles F Word, GLAAD Mad

I just watched this episode and it had me in stitches and yes.....by their definition I'm a Fag, being a bearded biker and part of a club as well. I don't know what the 81 are gonna make of this as one of the characters with a red & white Colorado Patch will piss off a lot of guys possibly!? Daw UK

Attention World : this way a very funny comedy skit from SouthPark, stop making it out to be anything more then that, this is about how annoying it is when assholes drive loud motorcycles for no other reason then to get attention, get over the fact they used the term fag , it is commonly used to mean something else then a gay person , such as the word bad is used to mean something rather pleasing rather then something that is actually bad. Fag is also a cigarette , fagging is the common British practice of freshman students being minor servants to their older classmates, would you be offended if i called my friend a practitioner of fagging ? Fag is not going away anytime soon.

There is a gap between the n-word and faggot, but even so, they are at there roots related. I think to understand the meaning of faggot, you have to have it shouted at you with the worst of intentions, it has to make you hate yourself. What you have to understand that it is an attack on gays and always will be. South Park has the best of intentions, unfortunately, all this episode will do is tell the high school kids that when they say faggot to someone, they really just meant it's something really lame, therefore ironic. Doesn't make anything better for us, though.

Don, with all due respect, the right of a private group to autonomy was not the message I got from the Boy Scout leader episode. As I recall, one character had just made a speech about how the Scouts should be gay-inclusive, only to be interrupted by a radio broadcast about a boy scout who was molested. That had nothing to do with autonomy to me. It was a smear against gay people and an inference that the Scouts were right in banning gays from its ranks. I'm fully aware of the rights of private groups to make their own policy, even if that policy excludes gays. I'm tired as hell of being pigeon-holed an ignoramus by complete strangers like you simply because of where I'm from.

The "N***** guy" episode was NOT equivalent to this. The message at the end of that episode was that Stan could never understand why a white person using that word (in any context) upsets Token so much, basically agrees that it's a word you should not use carelessly and essentially recognizes that black people actually have some right to define what usages of the word are acceptable. The takeaway message of THIS episode, on the other hand, is that gays who complain about derogatory usages of the words "gay" and "fag(got)" are silly because they're complaining about usages that don't mean "homosexual" and aren't even connected to them (claims that I personally think are transparently false, but I'll admit that I'm only a gay linguistics grad student, so I might be commenting outside of my expertise) and that it's ok to ignore gay people's feelings about the word faggot. As far as I can tell, the message is pretty much the OPPOSITE. Black people have a right to be upset, gays don't.

If they haven't come out of the closet, they are assumed to be straight. If they are closeted AND lecturing gay people who ARE out, that's even worse, so what's your point? And does it make what they did any less shameful?

Don, do you have any evidence for this? I can find nothing online except unsubstantiated rumors and an interview in which Stone says that nobody would believe them if they said they were gay. The interview is here: http://www.girl.com.au/team-america-matt-stone-trey-parker-pf.htm.

Straight men, garychapelhill? Are you serious? Have the opinion you want, but get your facts correct. Parker and Stone are homosexuals.

That episode was homophobic and racist as well. As it has been pointed out in other comments the scene showing a re-enactment of the James Byrd tragedy is to me ….hell it just pisses me off. Two rich white guys acting like typical spoiled rich kids. When someone confronts them about the James Byrd thing I’m sure they’ll say something inane and try to brush it off. They are nothing more than hopped up rich white trash haters and it shows. Maybe its time for Southpark to end.

No, two straight men have no business lecturing us on the use of a word that has been used to humiliate and denigrate us for decades. It is not funny. But what many, including GLAAD seemed to miss was the even more disgusting mockery of the Matthew Shepard/James Byrd hate crimes act. In one scene Emmanuel Lewis is depicted being dragged behind a motorcycle by a chain, leaving him bloodied and mangled. That is exactly how Byrd was tortured and ultimately decapitated by his white supremacist murderers. Offensive doesn't even begin to describe their truly despicable depiction of that vicious crime. Shame on them, and on anyone here who defends them.