Here's a thing I don't understand, and I'd be grateful if the Mods could explain it: Joybringer started a thread yesterday which was quite offensive to the girth-challenged. That thread was deemed offensive and was closed. But nothing he (or anyone else) said on that thread begins to approach the nauseating language which he has used to describe gay people and their lifestyles on the Gay Marriage thread.

So i'm trying to figure out why sneering at fat people is unacceptable, but repeatedly gloating over people dying of AIDS is considered an acceptible expression of free speech.

It has been said that personal attacks are the thing which will not be tolerated, while "expressing a personal viewpoint" is okay. Well, where is the line between the two? When you take into account that, statistically, there will be a percentage of Mudcatters who are gay (whether they feel comfortable admitting to it here or not), do you think it doesn't feel like a personal attack to them to read the nauseating homophobic attacks which Joybringer has posted?

I have a lot of gay friends, and several of them are high profile folk musicians. I would hate them to read the sort of thing that's being tolerated here.