Brazilian Fans FURIOUS at Anderson Silva!

In MMA is there still this idea that you should display respect to your opponent-as in the traditional martial arts ?
Is that what Anderson's fellow professionals are getting worked up about?


As I said, I don't really know.I'm just throwing out ideas.

 

who cares what's said in the ring?? I'm sure Jone's and Hopkins weren't exactly exchanging recipes. And I can only imagine what Tyson or Ali might have said to their opponents. Frazier's still pissed at Ali's comments 40 years later.
That said Ali did cross a line calling him a gorilla over and over and over again.

Hell I watch hockey all the time and the this isn't anything different than is said on the ice every minute of every single game.

Get over it.

 

bingo!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I'm having trouble with trying to find a way to explain how the word is used and Ill do it the best i can.

In Brasil the term Playboy is used almost exclusively as a threatening term and is used with a sense of prejudice and hate, not so much racial but in a social sense. Now the part i'm having trouble describing is WHY a term as simple as playboy would carry so much weight, well you would have to visit brasil to see the massive murders/kidnappings/corruption/robberies etc that take place daily to understand the weight of a term like this.

As a Brasilian Citizen i think there is a tad bit overreaction but when Silva used that term every Brazilian's mind thought of a very dark part of there society and i think it gave everybody a very bad impression of Silva. If I hear someone say "playboy" directed towards me in Brasil 90% of the time its from a stick up kid and the other 10% its from a joking cousin.

 

Maybe because I'm a white male and don't get many names directed my way, I'm wrong. But it seems to me if you ignore a name and let it bounce off you, it losses it's power. Like the N word, many African American's get really offended by that word, but yet they'll often say it to each other. Why?

Because in the first instance they chose to be offended, (maybe with good reason) and in the second instance they didn't choose to get offended. Same word...maybe even in the same tone and context..but people can either choose to be offended by it, and give it power, or not.