Existed on the internet long enough to stop becoming insulted on behalf of a group it's generally not being used to insult. Now if it was actually being directed as an attempt to maliciously insult gay people...
What do you think of the word "******"? [LOTS OF CURSE WORDS AHOY]
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I use it quite often with friends to mean 'dick', 'asshole', 'dumbass'. I don't tend to use it around my homosexual friends though as I had a nasty experience already where one got mega offended.
Depends on the context, it has more than one meaning. I'm not offended by it at all, like you said it's a casual insult on 4chan and IRL I'm not a ****** so if you call me one I'll just laugh because you're wrong. Though I rarely use the term ******, I prefer ur a faget.
I have a rather odd relationship with slurs and insults, to me they only exist if you let them exist you can call me anything you like i will not feel insulted as I simply do not care about your opinion of me.
That in context mean all words are slurs as much as it means they all are not. I remember once a black kid was massively offended because I called him black, he told me the correct term is African American. I then did what i though was make a fairly insulting comment by saying "what if you lived in France? and what if your parents and grandparents had all been born in France? and you thus has no relation to Africa in at least 3 generations and no relation to America at all?" and to this insult he responded "i never thought of it like that" and forgave both my unintended insult and my intended insult that just turned out to be education of a simple fact.
So yeah to me nothing is a slur, their are no offensive words. To others I just don't know
That in context mean all words are slurs as much as it means they all are not. I remember once a black kid was massively offended because I called him black, he told me the correct term is African American. I then did what i though was make a fairly insulting comment by saying "what if you lived in France? and what if your parents and grandparents had all been born in France? and you thus has no relation to Africa in at least 3 generations and no relation to America at all?" and to this insult he responded "i never thought of it like that" and forgave both my unintended insult and my intended insult that just turned out to be education of a simple fact.
So yeah to me nothing is a slur, their are no offensive words. To others I just don't know
I hardly ever use the word. And when I do it's normally used for people that are not homosexually, just the ones that pisses me off.
what is a choob? I have never heard/seen that before..ToTaL LoLiGe said:
OT: First time I heard that word? Probably when I was 6-7ish, just knew it was something interchangeably used with "dumbass"
I didn't learn it had any relevance to being gay until I was in 8th grade Human Growth class, which I was quite surprised by.
heck I have 6 buddies who are gay, and every single one of em use it in the "****** = douchebag" context, so it's just become second nature to use it that way.
so it mostly goes down to context for me, I don't use it in front of people I don't remotely know, but it comes out on occasion when playing video games with the buds or when trash talking at parties.
the only person I have ever seen actually offended by it, was this Politically Correct anal chick in my senior english class, which she wasn't gay, so it made it even a bit more "wtf" when she screamed at a kid for calling his paper a ****** for giving him a paper cut. Was a bit funny to be honest.
I don't really see much in the way of redeeming features with it. It's still a touchy word due to homophobic connotations, it has echoes of the 10 year-old kid who shouts insults because he's 'edgy,' it's uninventive, and I just don't find it fun to say. And it means I have to patiently explain 'I mean cigarettes" every time I use the term 'fag.'
That song was the first thing that popped into my head upon seeing this here thread.MMSouthpawVIII said:
I've actually nearly done the same thing with a few people (not as good reactions)DANEgerous said:
I said something along the lines of "hey that black guy over there, his name is John, he'll be on your team" and this guy did the same thing of "why did you call him black? That's rude, he's African American."
and I said "You called me the white guy earlier did you not? By that logic, I'll get into a rage for you not calling me Polish-German-Russian guy" and he was dumbfounded, and said "well, that's still not right" and I simply rolled my eyes and went about playing the game.
Seriously getting over racial bullshit like that needs to happen, it's perfectly fine to use it as a quick description of someone. When describing someone, do you not describe the color of their hair? eyes? why would you not do the same for skin?
I don't use it. When I call people out on, people go "I don't mean it that way, I just mean bad or stupid!"
Question time.
If I started calling things I didn't like black, or any other racial slur regardless of their colour, people would cry "RACIST!". If I replied, "No, I just mean bad!", would you guys take that as an excuse?
Question time.
If I started calling things I didn't like black, or any other racial slur regardless of their colour, people would cry "RACIST!". If I replied, "No, I just mean bad!", would you guys take that as an excuse?
From my personal experience I can say that the young of today mostly use it as a general insult, they learn it, usually, from people around them who use it as either a general insult or a slur. Personally I don't like using it because it feels too one-sided, you've nowhere to go after saying it and it is extended mostly to a small amount of the populous.
This also reminds me of the advertising campaign in which a group of kids would be chatting and one of them would say 'that is so gay' or something like that, then a celebrity pops up and tells them that they shouldn't be using it in that context because it's generally seen as an ignorant way of saying something is stupid.
I would use words that could be used anywhere. Words like 'dumbass' or 'fool' are the simplest I can conjure with still places to go if need be, I can even get creative in calling someone a 'walking bowel obstruction' or that they are afflicted by 'cranial rectitus'. However I am rarely in an arguement where I have to resort to name-calling or swearing instead of blatantly pointing out flaws in their arguement.
If you want to get philosophical about it, words in the grand scheme of things, mean absolutely nothing until you give them value, yourself.
endnote: I do feel like facepalming when I hear school children shouting things like that, havn't actually figured out why yet.
This also reminds me of the advertising campaign in which a group of kids would be chatting and one of them would say 'that is so gay' or something like that, then a celebrity pops up and tells them that they shouldn't be using it in that context because it's generally seen as an ignorant way of saying something is stupid.
I would use words that could be used anywhere. Words like 'dumbass' or 'fool' are the simplest I can conjure with still places to go if need be, I can even get creative in calling someone a 'walking bowel obstruction' or that they are afflicted by 'cranial rectitus'. However I am rarely in an arguement where I have to resort to name-calling or swearing instead of blatantly pointing out flaws in their arguement.
If you want to get philosophical about it, words in the grand scheme of things, mean absolutely nothing until you give them value, yourself.
endnote: I do feel like facepalming when I hear school children shouting things like that, havn't actually figured out why yet.
Terrible choice of insult, because it reveals a homophobia I don't care to flaunt. Terrible choice to describe the gays, because they don't like it. And no, you don't get any cleverness points from me for using it to describe your firewood, you sophistric doodyhead.
As with any potentially offensive word, I suppose it is simply a matter of knowing your audience.