That's so....great!

Back in October of last year, Liss wrote a post about the Ad Council announcing it will be making a commercial regarding the phrase "that's so gay". The commercial has been around for a while, though it's just now getting more airtime. Here it is:


As Liss said:

Naturally, this will elicit the regular complaints of language policing and "political correctness" gone wild, to which I can only say, for what certainly feels like the nine gazillionth time, usually matters of sensitivity aren't about marginalized people being oversensitive, but people who use the slurs that casually marginalize them being not sensitive enough—and if you really feel obliged to complain about having to expand your vocabulary beyond gay and bitch and retard, that says something decidedly more unflattering about you than it does about the people who object to your lexicon. Plenty of us have managed to figure out that refusing to use language which perpetuates oppression is not enslaving oneself to the language police. It's just doing the basic work required of someone who doesn't want to be a fucking asshole.

Wordity, word, word, word.