it isnt, it is a word sometimes used to describe things which are feminine.
you can say its not about the actual word. You can be wrong.

this isnt the case at all. No word is illegal. The use of homophobic slurs, unpunished, within a work place would be a failure to provide a safe workplace free of discrimination.

we dont exclude women. Women are allowed to play, in fact it is part of the criteria for our sport Enland funding. Men and Women are banned from playing contact sports together for safety reasons.
i see your point. It is wrong. It isnt inconsistent to treat different things differently .

Yup, I once defended someone wrongly accused of such things. His accusers, made demonstrably false accusations. Because, as homosexuals, they were consideedr minority victims of hate crime, the police had no discretion but to make an arrest which, they told me, they would not have done had the accusations not been made by a minority given the demonstrably false nature of the accusations.

Welcome to "equality" 21st century style.

Footnote. The accusers lost a big civil case and received a warning for wasting police time.

Oh brilliant, another argument where Smokey insists that black is white.

Yeah, you win another one Smokey. I can't be @rsed when you do stuff like this.

i havent in any way argued black is white, simply that you were wrong.

I don't cate about any of this. It's clearly a witch hunt by fans of other clubs trying to get a player banned, they don't give a rats about homophobia. And the use of the word fag as lots of connotation. Fag like gay means lame if your offended by a simple insult they you need to grow a pair. I was in an Indian restuaraunt once and the waiter taunted one of our group for ordering a prawn cocktail and a chicken korma so the waiter jokingly called him a fag.

Lots of people seem to think they know exactly what Zak said, who he said it to, what he actually meant, and if the receiver was offended or not. This is ridiculous, from the posts people normally put on here they don't even know what they mean never mind someone else...

Anyone who takes this seriously and is actually offended rather than this faux offence that some are showing needs to grow up a bit. This is not tiddlywinks and as has been pointed out already if anyone involved in the incident was offended they would have done something about it at the time.

If people really want something to get offended about, what about the case in Sudan of the woman on death row simply because she married someone "of the wrong faith". That's worth all the hot air that is being generated not this.

Frankly I think that anyone on this thread who is making a mountain out of a molehill is a "Feckin Faggot"...

Lets get this straight.

Nobody thinks they can get an advantage over Leeds if there homophobic fullback gets banned.

He just should be banned. end of.

Your mob couldn't get an advantage if 17 of us off Southstander took to the pitch.

Love it when we get a bit of pontification from a Hull resident......

rlrl

No worse than Lee Radford's "fight" with Ryan Bailey.

And here's the thing about language, you have to be careful how you use it.

You're now throwing around the term "homophobic". The Oxford online dictionary describes homophobia as "An extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people.".

rlhttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/homophobiarl

Even IF Zak used that term I don't see how he used it in a homophobic way. I doubt he put any thought whatsoever into the sexual preferences of whatever person he allegedly aimed the comment at.

I'll ask again, do you know Zak's sexual preference? Because if he is gay and if he said the term alleged then, by dictionary definition, he is allowed to do so. Bizarre don't you think?

Storm in a tea cup this by others allowing themselves to get outraged in behalf those that are not.

And THAT paragraph precisely sums up why something should be done about it.
If people use derogatory terms with no thought whatsoever than that is no better. The thing is - zak SHOULD know better given the stonewall cmpaign he was involved in.
Either hes a nasty homophobe or in ignorance either way it needs addressing

Who are you calling straight?

BURN HIM.