Thread: John Ahlers anti-gay comment

Originally Posted by jammer06

hold your horses a little, queer alone is not a deragatory word. For those of us who knew the vocabulary growing up in the proper context the game smear the queer is a perfectly non deragatory game, you are getting the person with the ball. They are the queer as they are the unusual one with the ball. People actively wanted to be the queer playing it. I'm sick of having words like niggardly that I can only use in conversation with people I'm reasonably assured of have an education level high enough to realize it's not a racial insult. Queer doesn't always mean something hateful, neither does queen. Can it, yes, but these words also had real meanings that are valuable to language.

that brings up a question for me - was "queer" used as a term for gays when that game first came out? was that the intent of the game?

Again, I had no idea at that time and I definitely wanted to carry the ball and get tackled by my sweaty friends...boys...ummm...honey, I have something to tell you!

Stupid thing to say.
Stupid to get up in arms about it.

That pretty much sums it up.

Originally Posted by gokingsgo25

I was just stating that his comment no matter how interprited was wrong so say the least. I myself am not gay, but to those who are, I would imagine this may have come across as being offensive.

I called the organization to just voice my opinion on how umprofessional and disrespectful a comment it was.

What if it was an annoucer somewhere in the south droping "N Bombs" because when he was a kid it was acceptable?

Thanks for confirming my point of this post RR.

I call major BS on this. if you really want to help with gay rights, let's see you step up and do something REAL about it. Don't take the cowardly route now and mask your agenda of getting Ahlers fired with RR's argument.

And the way you wrote it, I bet you thought this thread was going to get you all kinds of accolades because we are on a Kings board?

I stand with Nosoup on this.

Dude you're crazy... my agenda was none of the sort.

I hate the Ducks!
I hate Ahlers!

I was making a point by contacting them. I know a lot of gay people some of them which are hockey fans. Not trying to get the guy fired. I am sure he and Hazy are on the way out already with the way the team is playing and I could careless.

Didn't Ralph Lawlor or Mike Smith say something to get a suspention last year for the Clippers?

Take it as you want. My intention was not to make this all about bashing Ahlers, but the actual seriousness of the issue.

Urban Dictionary: smear the queer

Smear the Queer" is a childhood game of tag involving an object that is held by the "it" kid until he is tackled and forced to give it up.
"Smear the Queer" How it Works: The kid who has the ball (or stick, or balled up shirt, or whatever object is used) is "it" and therefore the "queer". The rest of the kids chase the "it" kid down until he is tackled (usually in a dog pile fashion). The caught kid then tosses the object away where the other kids gather around it and wait to see who has the guts to pick it up and start running. There is a big advantage to being quick on the pickup so as to get a better running start. There are no scores and no one "wins". It is a childhood game of bravado designed to blow off boyhood energy.

Note #1: I use the masculine to describe the participants because I have yet to meet a woman who's played this game.

Note #2: The use of the word "queer" is not homophobic in this game. It's used as catchy name to describe the game. The "queer" in this sense is just the kid who's it. Because it's completely voluntary to be the "queer", and being the "queer" requires a certain amount of bravery, it is not used in the derogatory in this this particular usage.

Originally Posted by gokingsgo25

Dude you're crazy... my agenda was none of the sort.

I hate the Ducks!
I hate Ahlers!

I was making a point by contacting them. I know a lot of gay people some of them which are hockey fans. Not trying to get the guy fired. I am sure he and Hazy are on the way out already with the way the team is playing and I could careless.

Didn't Ralph Lawlor or Mike Smith say something to get a suspention last year for the Clippers?

Take it as you want. My intention was not to make this all about bashing Ahlers, but the actual seriousness of the issue.

You are blowing this way out of proportion

Originally Posted by gokingsgo25

Dude you're crazy... my agenda was none of the sort.

I hate the Ducks!
I hate Ahlers!

I was making a point by contacting them. I know a lot of gay people some of them which are hockey fans. Not trying to get the guy fired. I am sure he and Hazy are on the way out already with the way the team is playing and I could careless.

Didn't Ralph Lawlor or Mike Smith say something to get a suspention last year for the Clippers?

Take it as you want. My intention was not to make this all about bashing Ahlers, but the actual seriousness of the issue.

do you even read what you type?

think we all played the game at one point or another as kids. Gang tackling the guy with the football and dog piling. It was fun as a kid.

I hate Ahlers and Hayward more than anyone and I have made multiple posts about those dickwads. So yesterday I called the Ducks and complained that his remarks were derogatory and homophobic. Saying I was going to have the gay community stand outside their Home Opening red carpet ceremony Wednesday.

I would love to have this guy canned or repremanded in some form or another.

so, who have you called to get the gay community to stand outside the Honda center on Wednesday?

Originally Posted by Blueline

Urban Dictionary: smear the queer

Smear the Queer" is a childhood game of tag involving an object that is held by the "it" kid until he is tackled and forced to give it up.
"Smear the Queer" How it Works: The kid who has the ball (or stick, or balled up shirt, or whatever object is used) is "it" and therefore the "queer". The rest of the kids chase the "it" kid down until he is tackled (usually in a dog pile fashion). The caught kid then tosses the object away where the other kids gather around it and wait to see who has the guts to pick it up and start running. There is a big advantage to being quick on the pickup so as to get a better running start. There are no scores and no one "wins". It is a childhood game of bravado designed to blow off boyhood energy.

Note #1: I use the masculine to describe the participants because I have yet to meet a woman who's played this game.

Note #2: The use of the word "queer" is not homophobic in this game. It's used as catchy name to describe the game. The "queer" in this sense is just the kid who's it. Because it's completely voluntary to be the "queer", and being the "queer" requires a certain amount of bravery, it is not used in the derogatory in this this particular usage.

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