The Daily Telegraph’s columnist Miranda Devine had shared her thoughts on the suspension of young rubgy player Michael Moses, arguing that he is the victim and that calling someone a “fu**ing gay c**t” is no longer offensive.
Over the weekend NSW under 20’s rugby player Michael Moses was captured on live television calling another player a: “f**king gay c**t”. The NRL acted swiftly calling Moses before it’s tribunal and suspending him for two matches and ordering to attend a course about discrimination.
In the Daily Telegraph Devine argues that the use of the word gay can not be deemed offensive and the word has multiple meanings, to young Australians it most likely means of lame, dumb or stupid. Therefore Moses was most likely not using the word in a homophobic context.
Devine says that prior to the word be adopted by same sex attracted people it previously meant happy, and now the definition of the word gay has moved on to mean something else.
Devine also argues that since the player Moses directed the slur towards is not openly gay, the slur could not have been in a sexual connotation.
As Moses has now been suspended for two games he is going to miss out on a big game he was looking forward to. Devine says the NRL is punishing an innocent man for a crime he never committed.
OIP Staff
