Poll: Do You Use the Word "Gay" as an Insult?
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No,I don't use the word as an insult.
Whenever I use the word in a phrase or expression such as "That's so gay" which sounds better than "That's so lame".It is something similar like the word "fuck" is used for so many things as prefix/adjective/verb etc in sentences.
People might think that I am insulting them,but it is not the case,since I am not a racist.
Whenever I use the word in a phrase or expression such as "That's so gay" which sounds better than "That's so lame".It is something similar like the word "fuck" is used for so many things as prefix/adjective/verb etc in sentences.
People might think that I am insulting them,but it is not the case,since I am not a racist.
I don't even use the word gay to refer to a homosexual. I usually use it to refer to something corny or campy.
The only way to kill off an offensive word is to overuse it.Serenegoose said:
I'll give an example that I usually give. "Breast". Used to be considered highly offensive, which is why we have the terms "White Meat" and "Dark Meat" for any fowl. Now we use it all the time without any thought. Words that are dying off are due to overuse or just newer terminology being invented.
If you walk down the street and hear someone yell "Fag", certainly you'll be offended. It's such a rarity and thus it's shocking. But get on Xbox Live and it rolls off your back. On Xbox Live, everyone is a 'fag'. As decreed by any eight year old playing Call of Duty.
It follows the Lenny Bruce philosophy, which is if we just use the word over and over and make it so mundane then the offensiveness gets killed off and shortly later so does the word. Which is why we grow out of "poopyhead" at seven.
Calling me "gay" would only be offensive because of actually resorting too such a low level of intelligence is beyond me and also I would share the same race as this lowlife (being human).
I apologize if this makes me sound like a supremesist, but really, THAT is the comeback someone uses as an insult towards me?
The word itself has no real offensive power, it is more of a mainstream thing, "everyone is using it! so I should too!".
I apologize if this makes me sound like a supremesist, but really, THAT is the comeback someone uses as an insult towards me?
The word itself has no real offensive power, it is more of a mainstream thing, "everyone is using it! so I should too!".
Well, no homosexual people I've ever met have "tended towards certain ways of acting". Neither have the heterosexual or asexual people I've met. I wouldn't have had any idea about their sexual orientation had I not heard it from them or someone else.The_root_of_all_evil said:Sexual orientation can be alleged from choice of clothes and mannerisms, because orientations tend towards certain ways of acting. That doesn't mean you are if you dress that way, or that you're not if you don't - but often an orientations recreates their own stereotype to find members of that orientation.Verp said:
Flamboyantly Heterosexual:
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No, that word is not in my personal lexicon, and I think people who do use that as an insult sound stupid, so I'm certainly never going to change my speech patterns to include it.
I think anyone on here who has said that they are, 'Offended,' or 'appalled,' by people for using the word Gay as an insult or as a way of bantering someone down verbally are full of crap. I've heard gay used as an insult my entire mortal life. Having lived along the east coast and visited the west coast of the United States, it's safe to say that the original term of gay has transferred from 'happy,' and 'good ol' time,' to 'queer,' and 'Hated sentient life form with apparent aspirations to become homosexual.'
But it goes beyond that.
Gay has become a vicious insult that today's youth has gone about destroying the true meaning of for years and years, and something we can't turn a blind eye to. Even I say the word gay as an insult, often times making such statements such as, "No, that sounds gay,' or, 'Why? What are you, gay?"
The first step is to admit we use it all the time people.
The second is to change the meaning, or at least try to bring back the positive aspects of the word.
But it goes beyond that.
Gay has become a vicious insult that today's youth has gone about destroying the true meaning of for years and years, and something we can't turn a blind eye to. Even I say the word gay as an insult, often times making such statements such as, "No, that sounds gay,' or, 'Why? What are you, gay?"
The first step is to admit we use it all the time people.
The second is to change the meaning, or at least try to bring back the positive aspects of the word.
Rarely, I try not to.
I do use the word '******' from time to time though, but not really to refer to homosexual people.
I do use the word '******' from time to time though, but not really to refer to homosexual people.