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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Terrell Owens is an ass. But, was he being homophobic here?
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.
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"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."
Inferior life form? Since when do we as humans get to designate which life forms are superior and which are inferior?
