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Originally posted by leagleaze
I don't know about you, but I'd think k.d. lang would be the gay k.d. lang.
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Terrell Owens is an ass. But, was he being homophobic here?
From the NYT,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/11/sp...es.html?8hpib:
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On Tuesday, team officials opened The Philadelphia Inquirer to a headline that said: "Owens Dances Around Questions About Sex." The headline referred to a question-and-answer article in the September issue of Playboy magazine. The interviewer stated that Jeff Garcia, the former San Francisco quarterback with whom Owens had a contentious relationship, has "denied media rumors he's gay." Owens was then asked, "What do you think?"
Owens replied: "Like my boy tells me: 'If it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.' "
Speaking with reporters after Tuesday morning's practice, Owens repeated those words, but he said that the interview was only a "loose conversation" and that "everybody is going to make a big deal out of it, but it wasn't like I came out and said Jeff was gay." He said that Garcia had a girlfriend when the two played together in San Francisco.
Garcia, who now plays with the Cleveland Browns, said he would not respond to "ridiculous, untrue allegations." Rita Addessa, executive director of the Pennsylvania Lesbian and Gay Task Force, called on Owens to make a public apology.
"The equating of gay men to vermin is appalling," Addessa said from Philadelphia. "We need to encourage the Eagles and Owens to make a public apology and for the Eagles to publicly discipline Owens. These comments that equate gay men to some inferior life form do real harm, creating a cultural environment which justifies violence against gay and lesbian people."
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Was he really likening homosexuals to rodents? If he had said, "If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck," would it have been so bad?
I can see their point. Why would he use "rat" instead of duck? That is clearly negative (rats being bad and disgusting, ducks being neutral?). But, it sounds to me like he just heard the saying that way growing up and it wasn't necessarily intended to be negative.
Here's my favorite part of the article, though:
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Asked if he was aware of Owens's inflammatory remarks, Reid said, "I don't read Playboy."
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That's a new one. I guess he buys it for the pictures.
Oh yeah, and people who take photos like this, shouldn't be talking about other people's sexuality in a negative way:
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