Suck on that you Faggots!

And so a young woman's life was thrown into turmoil. The only saviour being a cynically tearful public apology. Who can resist a pretty girl crying?

Well, I don't want an apology. This new invention Twitter has shown itself to be immensely useful. Finally, we have found a tiny worm hole into the actual people behind the PR spin. Something real, something authentic.

In case you haven't seen this all before, it goes something like this...

Young and Foolish athlete exposes a 140 character unsanitised piece of the person within, with all the beautiful human flaws, and with real opinions. Someone, somewhere finds what they have said offensive. The wheels of outrage are set in motion..

Wham, bang, representatives from whatever minority or special interest group explode out of the blocks for the free PR. The meeja grant them a voice, the outrage itself becomes the news, sponsorships are lost, role models are castigated and the press conference ceremony of repentance closes proceedings.

It's all explained well here
http://wn.com/Hungry_Beast_Gullible_Australia?_Gullible_Media

I cant say I don't enjoy the show, but what I really love about it all is that in that 140 character quote that sets the wheels in motion, we get to see something pure and unfiltered. Even if that pure and unfiltered tid-bit is offensive to some.

Authentic racism, sexism, homophobia, bitterness and spite, jokes in bad taste, I'll take it all over the meandering press releases and interviews telling us all that "We're taking it one game at a time' or 'I'll go back and work even harder on my game and hope the selectors notice'.

It also comforts me at night that I may not drive a Jaguar, but I can tweet crap to my friends without having to apologise to the world in a tearful press conference because I fear losing more than my Jag.

Yeah, zero sympathy here.

Twitter's great for watching actual world events unfold.

I think faggott has got something to do with wooly woofs and homo suckiens.

she should stick to vilifying Christians. It is the only safe place.

HA, runner did a funny. And it's true!. Croikey.

The price of fame has become more expensive.
Nobodies like us can say what we like and no one cares or notices but celebrities now must watch what they say all the time.
Like it or not they do set an example for their fans and they can hardly complain if people take them to task for setting a bad example.
Cant say I have much sympathy.

I do. Have sympathy I mean. Yes, I'm really an old softy, and not the cynical world weary grumpy old man that I appear.

Some of the people who get yelled at by the angry mob are really quite young people. It's a big ask to expect maturity and a squeaky clean existence from kids. Yes, some of these people are in the 16-25 age group. We all have short memories, how many people lived this 'role model' life at such a young age. They've fallen into this, their interest is in sport or whatever. People forget their age in all this. We need to give them a break.

Having said that, I'm sure the money comes as some compensation. And even though it would be hard to turn down the money that comes with the endorsements and sponsorships, it would be a good exercise to any young person who wants to be their own person, and wants to be a sports person and nothing else.
(If that's even possible these days)

Another thing that might not occur to people, is that sport for one is a full time occupation that doesn't pay all that well. The endorsements are needed, as the alternative is to be washed up at 28 with nothing behind you and few qualifications. In that environment, who wouldn't try to set themselves up.

Then once they sign up, they are stuck into a standard of behaviour far and above others with the same age and level of maturity and even far above your local pastor.

I'm sure when a young kid wants to play sport, you cant seriously say they should have thought of the fact they were signing up to be a saint somewhere down the line.

No runner you have that market cornered

I would love StG and runner to explain how Christians are villified. It seems you can't comment on a pedophile priest without offending Christians. Just by claiming to be an atheist one is apparently villifying Christians.

I felt a bit sorry for Rice over what was a throwaway comment in the heat of excitment about a sporting event. No wonder we have a rise in depression and mental illness - you can't step out of your door without treading in dog doo. Are we becoming that uptight? I have relatives who are Gay and that comment is the least of their problems - the irony is they often use words like 'fag' and 'poof'.

I think we need to look at the intent first and not get to hung up on semantics.

I agree that we expect too much
of our sports stars. As one journalist
commented, "The real issues for the gay
community extend deeper than a throwaway
line from a young, inarticulate swimmer."

One website quoted the following examples:

1) "Issues like same-sex adoption,
still trying to work its way through the NSW
Legislative Assembly. The slowness of this
process is something to be angry about."

2)"No political party tackled the issue of
gay marriage during the recent election.
Tony Abbott feels threatened by homosexuality,
and the openly gay - climate change Minister,
Penny Wong, prefers to follow the party-line
rather than endorse same-sex partnerships
making it to the altar."

"There are bigger fish to fry, than a naive
gibbering superfish."

'The Masters of Outrage' is a classic. The satire of Hungry Beast is most welcome.

Heh, heh, OLO is a small pond, where tinpot masters of outrage vie for attention.

I felt sorry for Rice. She seems a 'nice' girl, and doesn't have a history of saying nasty things about anyone, publicly at least.

Faggot is hardly the worst slur you could say about homosexuals.
There are far worse comments out there.

It was obviously a quiet news week when the media took that comment and ran with it.