Moyles = idiot

The Radio 1 DJ is perpetuating bullying by using the word gay as an alternative to 'rubbish'.
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Sometimes I feel like singing "God bless the BBC", it gave us the first gay character in a soap, we regularly have gay characters in soaps and dramas and long gone are the days when the gay characters were stereotypical marginalised characters, symbols of failure. But what has happened on Radio 1?

Chris Moyles's show is hugely popular, I have listened to Radio 1 most of my life and I still listen to Radio 1 and Chris Moyles and I personally listen to it most morning and find myself laughing along to the jokes and the pranks and the inane almost sycophantic banter from the supporting cast of presenter who really should do less to encourage him in his insulting. I agree with other commentators and listeners, that the show can contain sexist racist and homophobic comments. There is a gay assistant who is given the job of commentating on Big Brother and other light and fluffy subjects, and he is often the target of subtle but clearly homophobic jokes and innuendo.

I don't live in a gay ghetto and my whole life isn't surrounded by gay men or women but not one of my friends or family would ever accept the word gay as an alternative to rubbish or crap or anything else derogatory. Would it be acceptable for me to use the word fat in place of rubbish or the use of the word Moyles instead of rubbish. No one can deny the English language is adaptable and almost carnivorous when it comes to taking in words and giving them whole new meanings, but the use of a significant word such as gay should not be allowed to be bastardized by the BBC, one of the institutions we expect to uphold our rights and freedoms and our language.

Most gay adults will be able to accept this and take it in our stride, this isn't a great battle we have on our hands, it is another semi-famous idiot with an ego, making fun of people, because he can, it is the role of his employers to make him see sense. The BBC has a duty to protect the vulnerable, hence the bullying aspect of this. Bullying is a problem and gay focused bullying happens daily, it even happens to people who aren't gay but don't quite fit in. A new way of using the word gay in a negative manner just makes this worse.

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