Poll: Do You Use the Word "Gay" as an Insult?
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All the time. I should stop, since now everyone knows I'm gay myself, me using it in an insulting way just draws confused looks from people.
But it's a hard habit to break. As is using "******" and "queer" as insults too.
But it's a hard habit to break. As is using "******" and "queer" as insults too.
Well it's apparently a cover all generalisation that someone on the interwbz thought important enough to read too much into.This_ends_now said:
I get your point and agree with it for the most point but where I grew up the people who tended to use 'gay' in a negative context were all for the constant harrassment of homosexuals, or at least male homosexuals. I try not to use 'gay' in that context in order to distance myself from such people.Signa said:
Oh coolSigna said:
I learnt something. Thanks. Write more posts.OT: Well, yeah, same story here. It's just so satisfying to have the sound roll off your tongue. "Dayum, that's gay." I don't really direct it at other people, but I use it quite often. I try not too, though, as it makes you sound like a moron most of the time.
Hah, yeah, like you wouldn't love to be me.Daeggreth said:
[sub]Just kidding ;P[/sub]
Not that you should really care, but that was the most amusing and satisfying retort I've heard in ever.This_ends_now said:
You should totally have your hands up all 'innocent-like' and shaking them outwards, to the side, ducking your head in a little and widening your eyes.
That would be hilarious.
Herp, read his second-to-last sentence.Serenegoose said:
"Remember folks! It's not the words, but how you mean them!" or something similar.
You so silly.
Yes because the precedent has been set. The word has been used repeatedly in a specific context untill it morphed into having a completely different secong meeting. This is how language works (especially the backword retard that is the english language.)
In my gaming group we have a expression: "Right on the boarder of gay and retarded."pwnzerstick said:
I like to think my vocabulary has advanced beyond "YOU'RE SO GAY"
It doesn't make any sense when people use it as an insult, It either means I'm happy or they are choosing my sexual preferance for me.
It doesn't make any sense when people use it as an insult, It either means I'm happy or they are choosing my sexual preferance for me.
I love that! May I use it? ;-)=Kanazuchi said:
No really, that made me chuckle.
I only ever use it as an insult in irony or as a joke, and only to those that understand my humor. However, beeing and speaking german, that adds a new level of irony, mixing the languages.
Beeing homosexual is not a character fault, and using the word "gay" to denote something as negative just makes you look stupid. Stupid for not knowing the meaning of the word, or for thinking it is something bad.
However I do think that we may make fun of everybody, so it may be used jokingly, as far as I´m concerned.
I've noticed that there is no easier way to look like an immature idiot than to say something is gay. I've never used the word gay and I probably never well since it just sounds stupid. English is filled with so many different, colorful, and specific insults and I'd love to get a group of people who use the word gay in that fashion and teach them a long list of insults, swears, and descriptions that would make any bitter lover of this language smile with pride. Until I get a credential to teach such a class, I hope people would just avoid using it in that way since I can't stress enough that the person that says that word sounds stupider than a drunk and high George W. Bush.
I do, but i try not to >.> its one of those things that everyone was doing during my childhood so it was pretty much the norm and i used to do it a lot, but ive learned it can actually hurt some people so i try my best to avoid it but cant help the occasional slip up.