Home » Forums » Need to Rant?

Gay people go to seaworld?

Mon, 05/01/2006 - 09:45
Submitted by Carlin Ross

Seems that they changed the name of a species of penguins from "fairy" penguins to "little" penguins because they didn't want to offend gays. Do we really need to go this far? I mean if I was gay and saw a sign labeled "fairy" penguins I don't think that I'd take it personal especially since it's a lame slang term from the 50's....although I guess I'd take offense if they were the "cunt" penguins.

Here's the full article:

An aquatic theme park in Australia has renamed a species of penguins on exhibit lest the birds' real name, fairy penguins, cause offense to people in the local gay community, reports the Sunday Mail.

Managers at Sea World are now calling the species "little penguins."

"We didn't have any complaints about the name of the penguins, but someone thought they could be seen as offensive so we decided to change it to little penguin instead," a Sea World spokeswoman said. "We just didn't want to upset the gay community. The new name is more politically correct."

Even local gay rights activists called the move barmy.

"I don't think our community is that sensitive about those things. If the penguins were called poofter penguins or something more direct then it might be a problem, but I don't see the name fairy penguin as a mickey-take at all," said Kamahl Fox, chairman of gay support group the Gold Coast Breakers.

‹ First Halle, Now Terri: celibate! Please! No! Anna may just get her hands on that fortune! ›

Mon, 05/01/2006 - 17:11
SlushY

but what about the other fairies..you know, the tiny magical ones with wings who live in the forest? Dont THEY have any say in this?

Mon, 05/01/2006 - 23:35
cuntlicker

Next in the news: For fear of infringement on a trademarked name, chefs worldwide have changed the name of "Angel food cake" to "Divine being of supreme enlightenment food cake" out of fear of being sued by the Vatican for use of the registered trademark "Angel" copyrighted in 0 B.C.

On a related matter, Donuts were renamed to Dorings after pressure from concerned parents over the possible sexual connotations in the word "nuts." One outraged parent was quoted as saying "Please, somebody think of the children!"

Additionally, the Whitehouse announced today that in deference to the multiracial nature of America, and in an attempt to maintain a certain amount of racial equity, the Whitehouse has been repainted and is now to be known as "The house of many colors."

BTW Slushy, the faeries dont really care about it. They've been keeping tabs on the news and they think this shit is hilarious. They are a little pissed about logging, but they tell me that in another hundred years or so their plans for world domination will be complete and we will all bow down to our new 6 inch tall winged masters.

Actually the second one is related to something my friends were complaining about. There's this funny little japanese cartoon called Konjiki no Gash Bell, and the main character is an innocent little kid (who's really a demon sent to this world to battle other demons to decide the new ruler in their home dimension) named Gash (pronounced like gosh). The series was recently licensed and is supposed to be released on north american television sometime in the near future. But they decided to rename the little kid from Gash to Zatch, because the word gash has "sexual connotations."
Oh, and yes my friends and I are all geeks.