I do wonder if this hysteria is caused mainly on forums like this (I mean in general like you say not just this incident)

I dont have any opinion on this specific issue as im not part of the group affected. A lot of time people speculate what other people are going to find offensive (in general) and sometimes make things seem more serious than they are.

This thought had crossed my mind too.:shrug:

Absolutely not.

Well I am not the only one who thought there could have been some underlying racism when they chose her to be edited out, at least out there, not so much on this board. I saw things like "an all white panel choosing the black girl hmmm"

Well if she's a scientologist she could very well be homophobic.

Yes, I get this feeling as well. I actually liked her until last night.

The only controversial thing was Coleen asking if it was OK for someone to sleep next to a gay guy. In connection to her past opinions on gays it just shows where her mind is set.

Yeah that's how I saw it too

I didn't like Colleen the last time and she"a still awful. :fist:

I wouldn't have been offended if she had described someone as the straight white man, so why should I be offended by her saying gay boy?

What's this referring to? I don't really know much about her

Chuff I see nothing wrong with it either and what you say is right and probably so do 99% of the GBP. The problem lies within this forum. Ive been on DS and another site this morning and its mentioned in fleeting posts but its got 6 pages on here. Personally I think the issue is the word boy being used, and if she was older it would be ok but as a young lass, it come across as demeaning. Sadly Ghetto speak comes out and gets analised in the wrong context so thats where it all falls down.

Some people really need to lighten up and brush off silly verbiage poo pahs and move on. Making an issue of everything not in conformation to PC rules is creating a gender gap and fallouts like these.

mess

Every word or gesture is analysed and picked through to see if theres is anything folk can moan about, just watch the show and enjoy it,or turn off

We will see, I just didn't like that she said that. He has a name and it's Austin :fist:

Austin is actually my favourite HM but I think the reason she mentioned him being gay was the whole point she was making, like how come he's ok sleeping with a gay guy but not a straight one

I hope that's what she meant.

They are all new to eachother in there and names are hard to remember especially after you are chucked out into the garden. Would it be different if she was to refer to James as the ''dancer boy'' or anyone as the blond girl or big fella.........No....... she said gay boy and that got the homosexual community up in arms which tends to get views on here and its sadly pathetic. My eldest is gay and he says its food and fodder for the PC brigade and it infuriates him as he gets the backlash of it because he feels certain people think the BGLTV community should be treated specially instead of normally like everyone else.

Stacy put her comments down to sarcasm. Can anyone explain what was sarcastic? I didn't get that at all.

Personally I think she worded it badly and I wouldn't be surprised if she had homophobic views due to her religious connections. But I don't think it's bad enough that she should be punished and I'm glad she wasn't given a bs warning about it by Big Brother. If her comment offended anyone then perhaps people need thicker skin, and I'm sure given what other LGBT people go through they'd have skin thick enough to not be offended by being called "gay boy".

Everyone walks on egg shells scared to talk as everything and every word is disected,Scared one wrong word can wreck a career ........PC gone mad

In 1950 Hubbard published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, introducing his "science of the mind," Dianetics. He classified homosexuality as an illness or sexual perversion, citing contemporary psychiatric and psychological textbooks to support his view:

The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in Dynamic II [i.e. sexuality] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically...he is very far from culpable for his condition, but he is also far from normal and extremely dangerous to society

source: wiki

so chances are that if she is batsh1t enough to think Scientology is a thing she is crazy enough to swallow up that bolloxio

No, it's not acceptable. :mad:

First of all, he is gay, yes. ;) BUT he is NOT a boy! :mad:

Its not really the words, it was the way it was said. For me anyway.

But meh..I guess its up to 'gay boys' to decide if its actually offensive. I am not one to take offense on behalf of others tbh. Was just a bit...off.

People would probably think me homophobic if they heard me speaking to my mates whilst on the piss. It will become clear in time if she actually is homophobic.

Apparently they have given her a warning. Personally I don't think it warrants a warning either (even though I think she was in the wrong). I don't think the problem was just that she said "gay boy" though, I think it was more the context and that a lot of people think it came across like she might have a problem with gays.

I think it was just the first thing that popped into her head when she realised her comment had gone down like a lead balloon :laugh: