this exemplifies the single biggest problem causing all this PC bullshit in america
from the ESPN article:
"When reached before Wednesday night's St. Louis-Chicago game, Mariotti said that the story is the gay groups who have been insulted, and not him."
mariotti was not offended, but since he has the good ol' white person guilt, he feels he has to be offended for all the gay groups that should be offended. even though no gay groups or actual gay people have come out and said they were offended by the comments, jay mariotti, bud selig, and a bunch of other ******-ass white heterosexual sportswriters feel they have to be offended in place of all the gay groups that are certainly being offended!!!
this is very old, stupid fucking problem that stems all the way back to racism. when people in the media use a racial slang, the guilty, PC white people automatically feel "offended" for the black groups, even though there's no reason a white person should be offended when he hears the word "nigga" and even though no black people publicly got offended at the use of the word.
i can't really explain this in writing that well but I hope you got the jist of it.
basically, white people in positions of pseudo authority: stop being a bunch of fucking faggs