Can we uncensor ****?
 

I can't imagine that there is rampant use of the word h o m o in a deragotory way, but it is so darn annoying to have a discussion about evolution, apes, milk, etc. and be censored for pointing out that something is a member of the **** erectus family, etc. Hell, erectus is more inflamitory than ****.

Honestly, has it been such a hot button around here that we need to keep **** censored?

he said erectus

Or, to be consistant, we should bleep out "breeder."

We should censor "deragotory".

I don't know what it means, but it sounds bad!

:lol: What a ****

I'm gonna try writing the genus / species combo as one word:

homoerectus

homosapiens

*Cross my fingers!*

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

**** is censored, but is homosexual?

Interesting.

I've been doing that for a long time to get around the ban.

Dave is right, time for this one to go.

Two administrators post here and no word on why we shouldn't uncensor this? How gay. -wink-

:lol:

what a queer...



shadow

Put another faggot on the fire, while I smoke this ***.

BTW, this thread is *********!

Stop it already you bunch of poofs!

I can only imagine there is a huge round table discussion going on in the mod forum about the pros and cons of uncensoring this.


How is that discussion going?

I've hacked in and right now the current plan is to allow the word but ban HMO.

I believe any "huge round table discussion" is doomed to fail since, knowing our mods and admins, it'll swiftly degenerate into a circle-jerking session.

How homoerotic!

I see fizzlesticks still remains uncensored.

das

test

*******

******* rotfl

das

so now ******* is censored?
that's hilarious

*******

kvrhomo

kvrhairy

now that's ironic

IIRC, h o m o in the Latin means "man". Homme, and Hombre derive from it.
H o m o in the Greek means "same". Hetro means "different".

Not too pejorative.

rotfl

Okay which mod censored me. It feels like an X kind of thing


*******

**** *******

:lol:

do we have a list of censored words? it'd be funny to see what's considered bad here

There's ****, ****, *****, *******, ****, ********, ****, ************, ***, some others, and then there's always *******.

You forgot ******! :eek:

Hey! When did you censor that! rotfl

Let me guess:

****, ****, *****, *******, ****, ****, ***, and that one really long one: ************?

Some others would be:
******, ****, ******, pianist, *******?

Edit: Oh yeah! Got all but one. :hump:

I also agree that the prefix to homoerectus should be uncensored.

pianist? reminds me of that animaniacs skit

Yeah, pianist???

Why would that be censored?

Good night, folks.

******* is a ****









sapiens. ;)

Poor *******, he's censored...

As one of the long-time resident queers, I don't have any strong feeling about this either way. I appreaciate the intent, and I don't think it provides any serious hardship or awkwardness when discussing other issues. Nor do I think it's horribly necessary, except as a subtle reminder that even when we're joking around we need to treat each other with some level of unspoken respect.

I come up short in trying to find an analogous racial epithet for comparison. It's nowhere as intrinsically hateful as say, ******... More like darkie or something, although not as old-fashioned... And just like any of these words, context is everything.

It's not a term I'd like to see thrown around a lot here, even as a mock-insult between friends. That would have a chilling effect on some of us. At the same time, the rules against real personal insults are quite clear, and I don't see that unbanning the word would be likely to make this seem a less friendly place.

For me, it's a toss-up. Insert tossed salad joke here.

*******

:lol:

I can appreciate what's being said. As another longstanding resident gay boy, I can say that I HATE HATE HATE the word faggot and think it is the same as "******" or "spick" or any other offensive slang word. Notice I put those in quotations because I was always taught how offensive it would be to use them. I'm kinda cool with them being censored. Having encountered some of the morons that use this board, I can understand why.