Using the word 'gay' as a slur
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To say something is "so gay" the word gay is pejorative as in it is synonymous with meaning poor/rubbish/crap/sad/lame/bad. Put simply, if your first name was to suddenly become synonymous with those meanings wouldn't you feel a little miffed? Wouldn't you be insulted by the people who used your name flippantly in a derogatory sense.
Once i saw a gay couple on the central line, it was physically sickening. They were wearing full make-up, fishnets, had long hair, were stroking each other and speaking like girls...
Where as if it was two women you would have cracked one off faster than Gary Glitter at a kids tea party.
Three meanings then... happy, homosexual and rubbish. If their's no malicious intent there is no reason to be offended.
You don't see because you're a gay.
...Just because I'm from Brighton, we're not all gayers
Should have shot them both...Once i saw a gay couple on the central line, it was physically sickening. They were wearing full make-up, fishnets, had long hair, were stroking each other and speaking like girls...
with your jizz in their eyes!
Three meanings then... happy, homosexual and rubbish. If their's no malicious intent there is no reason to be offended.
And how often is it used in another way than a derogatory one.
Three meanings then... happy, homosexual and rubbish. If their's no malicious intent there is no reason to be offended.
...Just because I'm from Brighton, we're not all gayers
I think if you look up the definition of gay you won't find that it means rubbish. This has come about purely from people who used it a slur in the first place.
I hate PCness as much as anyone else does, but this is hardly the same. People seem to justify their use of what is by definition a slur, by saying it's lost meaning, as if to say, because it doesn't affend them or the one gay friend they happen to have then it's fine. The sheer arrogance of some people amazes me, the majority of people in this thread want us to go by their own made up definition of a word and completely ignore the one in the dictionary, odd.
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and we have a winner!!!
of course, as long as no one actually takes offense to it then its not offensive.
its probably more offensive you telling people what they should and should not find offensive.
Whether that is a joke or not, I am astounded you have written that.
It sums up how unseriously homophobia is taken compared to, say, racism. You would have never made a similar joke regarding race.
Sounds like a challenge to me.
Homophobia shouldn't be taken seriously, we all know its unnatural.
That's not what I said, winrar. You can be offended by something and not tell somebody about it, i'm pretty sure that's a possibility.