(G)ay, caramba! Channel 4 censors The Simpsons.

[atomic_joe2]

Broadcaster admits being 'overly cautious' about the word 'gay' at Sunday lunchtime

Comments

[paulnolan]

the Oxford English Dictionary now recognises a second usage of “gay” to mean “socially inappropriate, or disapproved of and lame”.

Ugh.

[nycscribbler]

What.

[casketscratcher]

Ugh channel 4 is awful for this. I do find it interesting that they censor the word "lesbian" on a fairly regular basis, yet as soon as the word "gay" is censored a fuss is kicked up.

[the_physicist]

dear lord.

i am just imagining this straight person sitting there in the editing suit chewing their nails going: "is this offensive context in the conversation? everything is offensive now. if i cut it out no one can complain, right? yeah, i'll just cut out all the bad words..."

*facepalm*

and double facepalm considering the last paragraph. :|

although i'm curious why this even got brought up though, because i'm sure they cut stuff like that out all the time.

[jojo342]

that episode from the early 90's where homer meets a gay person for the first time is c.l.a.s.s.i.c.

[burntspaghetti]

It's one of my favourites. This makes me giggle every single time:

[princesethking]

Censoring really gets on my tits sometimes. Especially in cases like this.