Using the word 'gay' as a slur

RDM said:
So the whole genetic arguement seems to be pretty moot. If it is genetic, it seems to be a reasonably stable genetic trait that gets passed on from heterosexual couples.
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Your first and second sentance seem to contradict each other.

"It seems a pointless argument..... but heres a logical way that it could work"

:p
 
Class 04 said:
Is used often on this forum.

If I were gay, I would find this offensive.

I think the word should be considered an expletive and not allowed on a family forum.

Thoughts?

(apart from calling the thread/idea gay?) :)
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Gay means happy.

Let's turn this thread really gay.
 
Nitefly said:
Your first and second sentance seem to contradict each other.

"It seems a pointless argument..... but heres a logical way that it could work"

:p
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Badly worded on my part. Rushing posts between work! :D Despite being a "dead end" trait, it does seem to have remarkable longevity.
 
RDM said:
Badly worded on my part. Rushing posts between work! :D Despite being a "dead end" trait, it does seem to have remarkable longevity.
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Although the exact genes which are thought to associate with gayness have not been identified, it is assumed that gay genes make a female more sexually successful. The region which is under investigation is on the X chromosome, explaining why there are more gay men than women (a man had only one copy of X genes).

So basically gay genes are thought to be a possitive thing, in the right combinations. Certain combinations combined with environmental factors are more likely to lead to someone to be gay.
 
tbs said:
um why would it be a slur if someone is gay and they were called gay?

how would that make it offensive to them? the fact that they are gay?

right...
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You're talking about something completely different.

This is not about the word 'gay' itself. It never has been. Any poster who posts as if it is has either failed to understand the entire point or is misrepresenting the point deliberately because they can't counter it in any other way.

The point is 'gay' being used to mean 'bad', 'wrong', 'anything unwanted'.

If you really don't see the point, just replace 'gay' in that context with something else, preferably some group you happen to be in.
 
Nitefly said:
Although the exact genes which are thought to associate with gayness have not been identified, it is assumed that gay genes make a female more sexually successful. The region which is under investigation is on the X chromosome, explaining why there are more gay men than women (a man had only one copy of X genes).

So basically gay genes are thought to be a possitive thing, in the right combinations. Certain combinations combined with environmental factors are more likely to lead to someone to be gay.
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That appears to imply that it's a matter of recessive genes on the X chromosome, which further implies that homosexuality would have to be much more common in men than in women, at least twice as common, probably more. Is that actually the case? It doesn't seem that way from my experience, but my experience is a limited sample size of only several hundred people and the sample is largely non-random.
 
Angilion said:
That appears to imply that it's a matter of recessive genes on the X chromosome, which further implies that homosexuality would have to be much more common in men than in women, at least twice as common, probably more. Is that actually the case? It doesn't seem that way from my experience, but my experience is a limited sample size of only several hundred people and the sample is largely non-random.
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I wouldn't have thought that would necessarily be so if it's not a case of a single gene but rather a combination of genes including those not on the X chromosome.
 
Tombo said:
And yet it's got nothing to do with homosexual people, well except when it has but that's a completely different matter entirely.
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Not quite sure I follow, but I think you've got it mixed up. When people use the term Gay as a slur they aren't referring to it being wrong because it's jovial/happy, but using the homosexual meaning. It would be like using the term milky as a slur about caucasians and saying about something I look down on; "that's so milky:mad:". I wouldn't be referring to the dairy type of meaning of milk.
 
If 'gay' supposedly means homosexual nowadays, why do we hear and see things that speak of 'gay and lesbiens'? Is 'gay' meant to mean just homosexual men?
I've heard plenty of women refer to themselves as gay (rug munchers).

Blimey the homo's will be lucky not to burn in hell for their sins against the almighty's master plan, and they're worried about being called 'gay'....
....way to go you pansies!

edit: not religious in the slightest. Used to be very homophobic, not any more, i'll tolerate them, but i don't thin its natural one little bit.
It has to be a design flaw in nature, if not and we were all gay, then we wouldn't last too long would we? with no more kids being born etc.
 
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