AOG
According to the Daily Mail, she said, "At lead <Nadal> knocked the g*******g out".
The name being bandied about yesterday, and mentioned in the Mail was Jo-Wilfried Tsonga:
http://blogs.abc.net.au/photos/tennis_australi an_open/tsonga.jpg
I would say more Mohammed Ali than g*******g.
However, it's besides the point. You have to be thunderously naive to think that you can compare a black person to a g*******g and have no-one say anything. It's no better than the football fans who used to throw bananas on the pitch and make monkey noises.
How many times have you seen a blonde white woman and remarked, she looks like a 'Barbie' doll?
ANSWER: Never
That fat guy over there looks like 'Oliver Hardy'?
Never
That guy is rat faced?
Once - when referring to an auditioner on The X Factor.
However, surely you can see the cultural associations that g*******gs have???
I mean say if I
were to refer to a colleague thus, "Oh have you seen what that Barbie on the fourth floor is wearing today" and she got to hear of it, she would be perfectly in her rights to feel offended.
Therefore, I self-censor. I self-censor in the same way that I don't use the same language in front of my mother that I do down the pub with my mates.
Everyone self-censors. It's those who choose not to who earn the criticism of others.