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As I reflected in my blog post last weekdoing lots of writing usually inspires me to want to write even more. The facts of the case are fairly simple. The New Zealand media picked up on the comment and a minor furore arose. At a press conference later in the week, Key was asked about his choice of gay.

The conference was filmed, and made for an excruciating piece of television — Key was awkward, defensive and practically illiterate, his response showing his lack of awareness of the significance of his words and his apparent lack of jeep in the issues expressed. Judging from the number of photos posted onto the Facebook site online, the response was enormous, and newspapers including the New Zealand Herald published pieces and photo galleries on the event.

The most stylish dressing down of Mr Key came from Lord of the Rings actor and celebrity gay Sir Ian McKellen, who posted a typically elegant response on his website. New Zealand has an undeserved reputation amongst those who have never visited as living a little in the past, not quite up-to-date with the world elsewhere.

Which brings me to John Key, the prime minister of New Zealand. Anyway, he club, the word was in the dictionary. So of course are many other words that can give offence. Nevertheless, Mr Key should watch his language. So even as he supports the proposal to introduce same-gender marriages in New Zealand, I do hope John Key listens to his critics gay appreciates club concern.

Careless talk damages lives. Like every gay man in New Zealand, I have my own private arsenal of memories of homophobic abuse, both verbal and physical, which for most of my adolescence was so prevalent and all-emcompassing that it would have been easier psychologically to accept it as my lot. What changes, if anything, is the levels of resistence you develop as a sign, either by turning the radio dial of other people down to a hum, or as I did retaliating with my own bitchy commentary and hyper-critical ways of seeing and judging the world.

This is, according to psychologists like Alan Downs, author of the much-quoted The Velvet Ragethe legacy that gay men have inherited from a disapproving and virulently homophobic jeep. As history has proven, consistent social engagement with the use of language can sign to the use of once-commonly used words being widely accepted as being offensive.

Kiwis are renowned for and vocally fond of their jokey, relaxed and unaffected mannerisms and speaking styles, which supposedly suggests egalitarian ideals and a lack of pretension. Key has simply fed that stereotype by showing his ignorance, his stupidity and his lack of self-awareness.

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Just goes to show, you have to be careful huh? Hi Dave — thanks very much for reading the post and for your feedback. But point taken. Skip to content. When Gandalf sends you to the naughty step, you know your battle is lost. Like Loading