Knifecrime Island Also Gayslur Island

I really do love this English PSA about not calling people “faggot” and stuff, mostly because homophobic slurs are so much sexier in British! Anyway, now gays are mad about the PSA, of course-but only mostly because the Football Association, which did the PSA, wussed out at the last minute on its debut. Also? In the end I don’t really think the PSA’s conceit (that men say things at sporting events they wouldn’t say elsewhere) works-don’t English people call each other “bender” and “poofter” constantly in the office and on the Tube? I mean, that’s how we roll in New York even, and we’re not even a rapidly-devolving glassing-friendly penal colony of angry shit-faced louts.