Madison County Public Library administrators were asked to go over a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s and young adult section to the adult section. The majority of these books were about the LGBTQ community. At least one was added to the list because the author’s last name is Gay.
Reminds me of that time when some Christian website had put an RSS news feed on their home page, but of course the owner had insisted on putting a word filter on it.
So the website had a headline about “Tyson Homosexual” winning gold.
People immediately started wondering what kind of headlines the website would have on the anniversary of the historic flight of Enola Homosexual and the Hiroshima bombing.
Ah, nice! This is a glorious example of the genre.
Also gloriously resulting in sporting news stories being auto-censored to be about “rugby prostitutes” in the US.
To be fair, “ball-tickler” is a weird name for a field position so I see why they edited it.
Honestly, my favorite use of this is Guild Wars 2 turning everything censored into ‘kitten’.
Skittenhorpe, Lincolnshire.
This is the guy the feed was talking about. A good athlete who probably got a lot of shit in school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyson_Gay
To be fair, he could have always used his father’s last name instead…
Why should he? Maybe he was proud of his name. Just because people gave him shit doesn’t mean he didn’t want it to be his name.
That’s fair. But that just means you’ll have to except that you’ll endure a lot of shit in school. And likely some after that as well.