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Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:53
An outraged gay community has lashed out at a Tauranga radio station for using the word "poofter" live on air. A Facebook page called More FM - Say Sorry! has been set up to demand an apology from the radio station after it broadcast comments from a caller accusing a breakfast host of "acting like a poofter". As we see here, it's a bona fide word. But how offensive is it?

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By Bobi

There is one test that matters here - if the user meant it to be offensive then it was offensive. Since the host had a caller "accusing" him then it is quite clear that in this context it was meant to be offensive and intended to denigrate perceived "gay/homosexual/poofterish" behaviour that the caller found necessary to criticise. The fact that a coincidence of letters on Countdown (UK tv series, not the NZ supermarket chain) happened to rearrange to this noun does not validate its use as a term of abuse. In fact, the woman in the clip was somewhat apologetic at finding herself using it. She at least, understood context ... it is a shame that the Tauranga radio station does not.

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