The Arrogant Italian

So since when is Gay an offensive term. I am of course referring to a recent post I made in the UCF LiveJournal. which is run by a bunch of overly conservative individuals who are hypocritical to the point that they threatened to ban me from the community if I did not remove the word form my post.

This is the post in question:

Hey Everyone,
Just wondering if anyone know the like discount coupon code for ticket master for the UCF v. Tulsa game on the 20th. I know the one for the Texas game was like “brighthouse” or something gay, but I don’t know if one even exists for this one. Its kinda lame that I have to spend $35 to get my brother in so he can sit in the student section… figured I would ask.

The thread went somthing like this:

Only morons or twelve year olds on Xbox Live use the term “gay” as a replacement for lame. Edit your post or I’m killing it and banning you for a week.

Thanks,

Management

And to elaborate and add to this to the OP…

Editing your post with *** to replace gay is no edit at all.

If you’re using it in place of “lame” or “stupid”, say those words.

and finally the best of them all

And the way you edited it there isn’t cute.

I’m deleting this.

And if you repost it, we’ll ban you.

Im leaving the posters names off in purpose of course. So the question now becomes, what right do they have to censor me? I honestly thought the first post was a joke, so I jokingly changed the word “gay” to “***”. then it just grew from there so instead of actually changing it to something else I just censored myself, changing “***” to “<insert non-offensive term here>”.

Does anyone really find my use of the word gay in this case offensive? How does he know that I was not using it to mean “happy”. And since when is a Live journal community like a communist country?

Needless to say I had to post everything here, because they removed my post, so if you have any info on the original post, or any comments on the thread that followed I would love to hear them.