Are Homophobic Slurs Motivating?

It wasn't just homophobic, it was sexist too. Apparently doing something "like a 9 year old girl" is much worse than doing it like a 9 year old boy, and "ladies" is suuuch an insult, right? 😒

I don't know. Are people who are only sensitive to certain slurs slurcentric?

Yes back then it was an insult...as being gay ment no way to reproduce which most saw as completely unnatural.

Didn’t Fletcher also make derogatory comments about ethnicity? Is that somehow better than homophobic slurs?

Anyway, as someone above pointed out, Fletcher is an asshole. We are supposed to he appalled at what he says.

Fletcher is toxic masculinity personified. Probably a closeted self-hating gay man.

Back in the day being called gay was the supreme insult.

It was still around in the mid-00s. I think it was only around the mid-10s when it phased out. It did seem a tad odd to me a film this recent had used this insult.

The second that asshole threw a homophobic insult, or any other kind, at any self-respecting student with a spine, he'd get told to go fuck himself and he'd lose a student. There are lots of good teachers who know psychological and physical abuse are not the way people learn to be musicians.

It's kind of the stereotypical drill instructor schtick. Cut down someone's masculinity with that stuff.