I'm sure we can all think back to Christmas, trees were up in every living room window you went past, elderly women were running between shops trying to find their grandkids presents before the big rush, and everyone's favourite Christmas jingles were being played on the radio. One of these was The Pogues ft. Kirstie McColl - Fairytale New York, which contained a certain little word, which, according to Radio One officials "could have been used offencively".
The word I'm reffering to is, of course, faggot. Don't all rush in with the controversy horns. I mean, seriously, don't, nobody took any notice of the word which reffers to a horrible time in the history of the LGBT community. I'm sure if the n' word (which I won't actually use to keep things a bit easier for all of us) was used in the lyrics, I'm sure the controversy police would have been all over it.
A few weeks after the start of the season of good tide, radio stations finally started to listen to complaints about the offencive language, they finally blanked out the f word, and a few others aswell to make sure it didn't look like they'd gone soft, and everyone was happy, except for idiots who think much more about music than how people think.
People soon started to complain about the blanking of the words, and in a much speedier rush, radio stations soon put the words "faggot" and "slut" back into the song, making the offencive song which was made innocent, back to offencive. Why? I don't know, ask the radio one pigs who don't give a shit about offenciveness.
Another case of this struck me on St. Patricks day, whilst I was watching "the world stands up". Practically all of the comedians made a good-taste joke at homosexuality, untill the last comedian, who went on stage starting a new weakly homophobic joke. As the joke drew to the punchline, he happily ended it with the word "faggot". The audience laughed, cheered, and clapped their hands, and I died a little inside.
In contrast to this, there has been the unrecognised problem at "the laugh factory", where Seinfeld star Michael Richards let loose on a group of black audience members on the front row, who decided to get clever and try to shout abuse at him. Richards let loose, and used the n word many times and made jokes up about lynching, which I'll leave you to google about if you're unaware of that period of American history. Even though the use of both of these words were on completely different scales, the effect is identical, that the use of both of these words is just not on, at all.
In conclusion of this controversial escapade, the use of the f word is, for some totally fucked up reason, seen as perfectly acceptable, when the use of the just as bad n word, but for some reason the latter of the two is seen as the darkest of tabboos, and the use of the f word is somehow socially acceptable. However this whole thing seemed to happen, it needs to be found and stopped, and people need to be aware of how both words affect both of the groups they reffer to.