Bully Ray Apologizes Again For Gay Slurs

Who cares

This has gotten way out of hand. Everyone needs to dry their eyes and put a fresh bandaid on their bleeding hearts and get over it.

Firstly, he shouldn’t have done it full stop, others need to stop moaning about it.

Oh, why not. I’ll add my two cents.

Ray was doing what he does best, and that is getting the crowd involved. I’ve seen him for 15 years as a face & a heel, and he always tries his absolute hardest to make the fans get involved & forget that they’re watching a performance.

That said, he has said far worse. Go watch the Dudley Boys’ ECW dvd. Even I couldn’t believe some of the things he said to fans when he was in his “zone.”

But I believe the bottom line here is that he’s in a place that doesn’t want that word used, period. There are plenty of words that are used by groups of people on themselves (f*gg*t, n*gg*r, etc…and yes, I’m self-censoring), but regardless of how any of us feel about it, Ray’s employers at TNA don’t want it done. So in that aspect, I do feel he was wrong & I feel he did the right thing for the company by going out of his way with apologizing.

My only real problem with the incident is people who claim its a homophobic word. Phobia implies fear, and in no way did Ray imply fear of the man (such as if he’d said “Don’t try to kiss me, you f*gg*t.”) He used it as a generalization for the guy’s long hair & (reportedly) shaved chest, and he unquestionably used it as an insult, but not as a fearful word. And again, he did it only to get heat as a performer, he never got on the mic and proclaimed “I hate all f*gg*ts” or anything.