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Message: [QUOTE="Todd Gack, post: 609031, member: 869"] Let's use some logic here -- the "athlete" is either gay or straight, right? And I'm on board that Rice wasn't implying that the "athlete" was gay -- that he was indeed calling out their masculinity. Where I differ with you and Townie is that -- as far as I can tell -- you don't think it has the same perjorative connotation for a gay guy. That by calling a straight man or a gay man that term you're implying that that that man is not as masculine as the ideal. Furthermore, as I've said before, I think the school (a public institution) had every right to can his ass if only to send a message to bullied gay kids that his behavior -- and use of the term, however he defined it -- is unacceptable. [/QUOTE]