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Don't Tell Musto He Can't Say Bitch
posted: 11:53 AM, August 7, 2007
by Michael Clancy
A New York Times reporter used an encounter with the Voice's Michael Musto to ask the famed columnist to weigh in on the controversy surrounding the word 'bitch.' As reported in Runnin' Scared last week, the City Council is considering a symbolic ban on the b-word, just months after passing a similar measure that symbolically banned the n-word. From the Times: "Half my conversation would be gone,” said Michael Musto, the Village Voice columnist, whom a reporter encountered on his bicycle on Sunday night on the corner of Seventh Avenue South and Christopher Street. Mr. Musto, widely known for his coverage of celebrity gossip, dismissed the idea as absurd. “On the downtown club scene,” [Musto] said, munching on an apple, the two terms are often used as terms of endearment. “We divest any negative implication from the word and toss it around with love."But what about 'ho?' The article gave short-shrift to the other word that Councilwoman Darlene Mealy of Brooklyn seeks to ban. Is 'ho' more offensive than 'bitch?' Does it have less camp value? We'll ask Musto if we see him in the halls. In the meantime, discuss, bi-, um, beautiful people.
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Comments
Alright, as a majority memeber of the Hip Hop listening community. Yes a white guy, I say maybe the words should be banned.
Posted by: Avg White guy at August 7, 2007 1:58 PM
As a minority member of the hip-hop listenign community, I say, relax. Bitch is a great word that crosses so many boundaries. Either said by a homophile or hip-hop urbanite, the meaning is the same....a female dog.
Posted by: Avg Black guy at August 7, 2007 9:34 PM
Banning.
Words.
Is.
Silly.
Folks will make new words. Also... y'know... censorship. What the Hell kind of bill is this to take up our governing bodies' time with? Ridiculous.
Posted by: Jack at August 7, 2007 10:55 PM
So, is Santa going to get 3 tickets when he says "ho ho ho??"
Posted by: jimc at August 7, 2007 11:55 PM
WTF? This is retarded. Let's all go to Disney/42nd Street, grab a latte at Starbucks on 115 and 1st and sing kumbayah as all the real NYers leave the city for good. Screw that. I can't believe that NY would actually consider banning a word. Are they going to try to ban Brooklyn accents while they're at it?
Posted by: My name at August 8, 2007 7:24 AM
Free Speech. RIP 08/08/07
Posted by: TyphoidMarty at August 8, 2007 8:54 AM
All you squidgies are a bunch of flinky whutfoes. If you'd pull your heads out of your bungholes far enough to wiggle your elbows, you'd see that people can make up new offensive terms faster than you rutskanks can pass resolutions against them.
Posted by: Anders Chydenius at August 8, 2007 9:39 AM
Banning words isn't silly; it set a dangerous precedence: that the governement is allowed to ban speech they don't like. This time it's something trivial like "bitch" or "ho" (both of which I believe have legitemate uses, I know a few women who can ONLY really be described as one or both of those words, and a few men too) but it might not always be. People should be objecting to this on principal though, regardless of how they feel about the words themselves.
Posted by: Nean at August 8, 2007 11:22 AM
your all bitches and hos in new york
Posted by: reverend at August 8, 2007 11:43 AM
LEGISLATE EVERYTHING
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Posted by: jay at August 8, 2007 12:33 PM
No sure this could even hold up in court. Wouldn't this be a First Amendment right?
Posted by: Ashida Kim at August 8, 2007 1:32 PM
It's not meant to hold up in court. Symbolic banning. That means no one is going to get a ticket for letting a bitch know she's a ho.
Posted by: durrrrr at August 8, 2007 3:48 PM
look, if those words are taken out...take out dick, ass, and every other word. the only unbiased curse word is the f-bomb, yet that is found to be the most offensive. get real, how much control are we giving the government. sorry, i meant to call my female dog in heat a bitch, then some ho gets offended and i get sued...ridiculous
Posted by: rich at August 8, 2007 11:09 PM
The M-F is offensive to me.
Posted by: unfunuckin beleivabull at August 14, 2007 11:19 PM
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