Just How Stupid Gay-Panic Gets
Want to know just how stupid gay-panic gets?
Here’s a question whose answer will tell just how idiotic, and it’s a question that oughta bring you back to third grade real fast.
Remember what homophones are? Homophones?
They’re not mobiles for lgbt citizens. They’re not sexy stereo systems. And, no, they’re not fabulously gay and sparkly blue tooth devices.
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HOMOPHONE PANIC: ENGLISH TEACHER CASHIERED
Homophones, as I’m confident we recall from our between six and ten years in grade school are…well…before I remind you, know this:
HuffPo reports on a Utah teacher recently cashiered for writing a blog post about homophones which, the school head was concerned, promoted the so-called Gay Agenda.
Think I’m kidding?
Think again.
This is precisely what’s happened to Tim Torkildson, a social media specialist at Nomen Global Language Centre, Provo.
Now, what are these dreadful words, these homophones? They’re words that are pronounced similarly to one another but are different in meaning. For example “to,” “too” and “two,” are homophones.
A
MONTY BRIGHTLY SKIPPED UP THE STEPS TO THE PODIUM WHERE HE ACCEPTED HIS AWARD WITH HUMOR AND GRACE.
B
BARBARA, AND BORIS, TOO, PASSED THEIR DRIVING TESTS IN THE SAME STOLEN PEUGEOT, PINCHED FROM THE DEALERSHIP ON THE LEFT BANK.
C
TWO BIRDS, PETE AND RE-PEAT, SAT ATOP OF THE FENCE; PETE FLEW OFF…WHO WAS LEFT? … … … TWO BIRDS … Ok…. … …
KNEW, NEW ? FLOUR, FLOWER ? OUR, HOUR ?
These words sound alike, but are spelled differently and have different meanings from one another. In English, of course, there are many hundreds of these words and they’ve nothing to do with sexuality, gay sexuality or straight sexuality (not even with bestiality).
Yet after publishing a language-teaching blog post about homophones, The Salt Lake Trib reports that Mr. Torkildson was booted. His employer concluded that “our school is going to be associated with homosexuality,” and labeled the language blog “extremely inappropriate.”
Perhaps this level of flailing absurdity is what we see when gender bigots know they’re losing.
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07/04/2019 @ 8:39 pm
When I was in school we called them homonyms.
I wonder if the guy can sue. Probably, because this is too far out there. Would he get fired for talking about homogenized milk? Homo sapiens? Or a great one, Homo Erectus?
07/04/2019 @ 11:01 pm
There are homophones, homophobes and dumb-asses. The biggest problems arise from homophobic dumb-asses who don’t know what a homophone is (especially when they are the head of a school).
07/05/2019 @ 8:42 am
yes
07/04/2019 @ 11:07 pm
BTW, I find this no more reprehensible than the 56% of a NBC poll that said, “American schools should not include the teaching of Arabic numerals in their curriculum.”
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/teaching-arabic-numerals/
07/05/2019 @ 8:42 am
uhmhmm
07/05/2019 @ 9:20 am
That’s so stupid it is funny. I’d love to see their faces when this gets legislated somewhere and their kids come home from school with their math homework in Roman numerals.
07/05/2019 @ 2:05 am
Did the idiots who fired him look the word up first?
Look at homonym and homophone….Any homophobe can see that there’s reason to be concerned…As for homo sapiens and homo erectus, they’ve been homogenized and are no longer part of a homogeneous curriculum that has been cleansed of any and all hint of homosexual bias, truth and reality notwithstanding…
07/05/2019 @ 1:37 pm
Whether the wether likes the weather depends on whether the wether is out in the weather getting wet.
07/05/2019 @ 1:54 pm
They’re getting their clothes wet there. We’re talking about where they wear those clothes, two of them running to their car, each wearing a tutu and ballet slippers, too.
07/05/2019 @ 8:57 pm
*Snorts* Picturing a goat wearing a tutu and ballet slippers causes more than a few giggles. A “wether” is a male goat that has been castrated.