Anyway, was surfing the net and read an article from the Huffington Post about Anderson Cooper discussing his shock to seeing a previes of Vince Vaughn's latest movie where he makes a "gay" remark.
From the article, Cooper says:
As Anderson (without naming Vaughn or the film) tells Ellen (on the Ellen Degeneres Show):I was sitting in a movie theater over the weekend and there was a preview of a movie, and in it, the actor said, 'that's so gay,' and I was shocked that not only that they put it in the movie, but that they put that in the preview, they thought that it was okay to put that in a preview for the movie to get people to go and see it.
I just find those words, those terms, we've got to do something to make those words unacceptable cause those words are hurting kids. Someone else I talked to recently said that the words people use and the things people say about other kids online, it enters into their internal dialogue. And when you're a kid, it can change the way you see yourself and the way you think about yourself, and the worth that you give to yourself. I think we need to really focus on what language we're using and how we're treating these kids.
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