Sticks And Stones

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Why haven’t we passed this clever saying down to our children? Everyone in the world lately is getting butthurt over words. It just keeps getting more ridiculous about what people are offended by nowadays.

We’ve become such a soft society.

First, we have people freaking out over Tom Brady using the word “spaz,” and now we have the game show Jeopardy in trouble for what they’ve dubbed a sexist clue.

We’ll start with Tom Brady.

According to the crybaby mob, the newly minted sports broadcaster made his first network flub.

Tom Brady raised some eyebrows with his commentary while calling the Bills-Seahawks game on Fox Sports on Sunday.

Brady — who’s in the first season of his 10-year, $375 million contract with the network — was discussing the growth of Bills quarterback Josh Allen, when he said the two-time Pro Bowler previously played like a “spaz” before he became more controlled under center.

“Sometimes he played like a spaz, like a grade-schooler on a sugar high,” Brady said on the broadcast towards the end of the first quarter while Buffalo had a 7-0 lead over Seattle. “But now he’s controlled the chaos. He’s like a storm coming into town and you don’t want that storm coming into this town.” – New York Post

The New York Post article goes on to tell us that the word spaz is short for spastic and means clumsy, stupid, or losing physical or emotional control.

So going by what the crybaby mob says, if spaz is offensive, then so is clumsy and stupid and losing control. But we already knew that.

The sensitive people say the term spaz has been used in derogatory ways when talking about people with disabilities. Well, we need to go ahead and scratch the word spastic from the dictionary altogether, then!

so apparently “spaz” is all of the sudden racist now. oh man do i have receipts https://t.co/jmGjmqGQdw

— Charlie Hurt (@CharlesHurt) October 28, 2024

Never mind that these same people love calling Donald Trump and his supporters Nazis, domestic terrorists, or xenophobic bigots, to name a few. Talk about offensive.

No Apologies!

Tom Brady had better not apologize for the words he used to describe something fitting. It would not surprise me if Fox would go in and bleep it out. Future replays will be politically correct.

Hell, Lizzo even changed her lyrics to one of her songs by someone wanting to encourage Disney to create disabled princesses.

In 2022, the four-time Grammy-winner removed the word spaz from her song, “Grrrls” after being called out by disability advocate and writer Hannah Diviney. – New York Post

Oh, that’s rich, Hannah, seeing as you are on your blog throwing the word woman around (referring to Taylor Swift) like it means something. She describes Taylor Swift’s cat eyes as sharp enough to kill a man. Also, she uses the word – fucking to describe melodrama. So yeah, maybe I’m offended by that, Hannah! Change your words.

Do you see where I am going with this? What group gets to dictate who is offended by words? Just because you are in some specialized group doesn’t give you a higher ranking, and you get to dictate to others what is appropriate.

And Jeopardy!

As if Tom Brady using a smear isn’t enough for you, we have America’s favorite game show, Jeopardy, getting in on the action, too.

‘Jeopardy!’ slammed for sexist clue — as host Ken Jennings apologizes to female contestant. NYP

The category was Complete The Rhyming Phrase and one of the clues was this: “Men seldom make passes at…”

The answer: “Girls who wear glasses.”

To which the Jeopardy host immediately apologized to the only female contestant, who, yes, was wearing glasses.

The dude-contestant who gave the correct answer also apologized. And for the record, the famous quote comes from a WOMAN – Dorothy Parker.

Greg Gutfeld has been questioning Jeopardy’s sexism for years now. Check out this 11-year-old clip. My God, where is the time going?

Right after I hit Publish on this blog post, I will look up where all those people are in that clip—if they aren’t canceled. We know where Greg is, though.

But seriously, when did we become such an offended society over words? Growing up, I remember learning that old school playground rhyme about Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me. Don’t you remember that?

We must get back to raising tougher kids, or our country will be toast.

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