No Such Thing as the "T" Word
http://scunosi.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/no-such-thing-as-the-t-word/by Scunosi
11/2/10
I was something of a prude when I was a kid. Growing up on Air Force bases surrounded by Schoolhouse Rock and PSA's, I was sure I knew right from wrong and that if anyone deviated from those rules they were just being bad. As I grew up I slowly began to accept things I had previously shied away from, and my vocabulary changed a bit, too. I started to understand that just because someone tells you not to do something doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing, perhaps just inappropriate for certain groups or audiences. In fact, it's kind of funny; in my youth I was quite prudish, but now I tend to advocate only loose restrictions on speech and lifestyle.
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Naturally all this made me curious when I saw a headline on
cnn.com about Glee using the mysterious "T word." So when I clicked on a link about Glee to find out exactly what the "T" word was, I was quite surprised. For one, they censored it in the title and the article so it did take me a second to figure out what they were talking about. Apparently GLAAD was in a little tizzy about the issue. You know what the word was? ->-bleeped-<-.
