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Post by Bazzy on Sept 10, 2011 6:40:05 GMT -5
Suzanne feels that the word "Cancer" when spoken in promos (not just in WWE , also TNA usually by Eric or Hogan) . Is used way to much and is not of order .
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Post by swarm on Sept 10, 2011 10:15:06 GMT -5
Totally agree. I said the same thing, and started a post about it a couple of years ago about Terrell Owens being called a cancer and got blasted for it.
I think it's incredibly insulting. Cancer is nothing like a stupid wrestler or an arrogant sports athlete.
It makes it even worse when you see a powerful positive influence on a locker room with a player like Ndamukong Suh, who has single handedly changed the aura of the entire Detroit Lions team. You never hear anyone say "Suh is like Chemotherapy to the Lions locker room." How dumb would that be.
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Post by TTX on Sept 10, 2011 12:22:24 GMT -5
Cancer is definitely a horribly misused (and overused) word. Its definitely not something people who have to deal with cancer (their own or a loved one's) care to hear either.
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Post by reno on Sept 10, 2011 13:03:45 GMT -5
I agree completely that word is overused, and absolutely insensitive to anyone who has had to deal with cancer themselves, or seen a loved one suffer with the disease.
I would like to ask,
can¡¤cer /ˈk©¡nsər/ Show Spelled[kan-ser] Show IPA
noun
1. Pathology .
a. a malignant and invasive growth or tumor, especially one originating in epithelium, tending to recur after excision and to metastasize to other sites.
b. any disease characterized by such growths.
2. any evil condition or thing that spreads destructively; blight.
3. genitive Can¡¤cri /ˈk©¡©¯kri/ Show Spelled[kang-kree] Show IPA. ( initial capital letter ) Astronomy . the Crab, a zodiacal constellation between Gemini and Leo.
4. ( initial capital letter ) Astrology .
a. the fourth sign of the zodiac: the cardinal water sign.
b. a person born under this sign, usually between June 21 and July 22.
5. ( initial capital letter ) tropic of. See under tropic ( def. 1a ) .
if you are offended with the use of defintion #2, wouldn't you also have to be offended with the use of definitions #3, #4, & #5 as well?
Terrell Owens, for example, wasn't described as cancer (#1), he was described as "a cancer" (#2) to his locker room(s). While I understand, again, that the anaolgy is realistically offensive to cancer survivors, or those currently suffering with the disease, it is not the defintion of the word that is being used is this instance.
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Post by chewey on Sept 10, 2011 13:08:35 GMT -5
well to be fair, #3,4, and 5 should be spelled "Cancer" with a capital C.
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Post by Sickman on Sept 10, 2011 18:21:46 GMT -5
Thats exactly why I don't have a problem with it. Some words have alternate meanings.
If I call someone a "cancer faced bastard"; I can see the uproar. But If I say that TO is a cancer to his team; I don't see a prob with it.
Should a gay person get pissed if a person from the UK says that they don't like fags? Maybe thats a bad example and quite possibly a funny one but still.
I personally think that people get to "up in arms" about some things.
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Post by chewey on Sept 10, 2011 18:25:29 GMT -5
Should a gay person get pissed if a person from the UK says that they don't like fags? Maybe thats a bad example and quite possibly a funny one but still. Come on, everybody knows that the Oxford Dictionary changed the definition of "homosexual" to mean inconsiderate and loud drivers of Harley Davidson motorcycles.  |
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Post by euritar on Sept 10, 2011 21:36:32 GMT -5
I lost my dad to cancer 3 & 1/2 years ago and it pisses me off when I hear it used to describe a person as a "bad influence"
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Post by floydthebarber on Sept 11, 2011 0:15:42 GMT -5
Great topic. Personally, I have a lot of experience with cancer in my family, and have lost close relatives to the disease…and still others fighting it today…but I also use the term when talking about players on sports teams who are horrible people/teammates. I guess I never really was thinking that so-and-so is giving this team cancer (the disease), but that ‘like’ my understanding of cancer, so-and-so was an entity within the team that wasn’t good, and had the capability of gaining strength and causing other players to ‘go bad’ etc…similar to what my understanding of cancer does, so the best way to describe said person is as a ‘cancer’. Maybe I should find another word?
I don’t blame some of you who feel offended with the words overuse…and I’d admit it probably is overused for a word with such meaning, much like the word ‘rape’ or ‘raped’ is used when talking about things that have absolutely nothing to do with the most commonly used definition of the word. Thankfully nobody close to me has been raped (that I’m aware of), but the use of that word really upsets me, so I can see how someone else might be offended or upset by the use of cancer in certain contexts. That said, I don’t think I’d ever confront someone over it, or belittle them for it, cause its just their way of expressing a thought, and they probably aren’t doing maliciously…just like I’d hope that if I were to call someone a cancer on a team, I wouldn’t have someone in my face cause someone they loved has/had the disease. It’s a word. Words sting…but they’re just words…and they can mean different things to different people.
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