I'm constantly called "gay" or a "fag"... I have no I dea whether tey are using it derogatory, or meaning I'm homosexual. People often think I'm gay. I hang out with girls, so what? I'm just so confused...
I'm constantly called "gay" or a "fag"... I have no I dea whether tey are using it derogatory, or meaning I'm homosexual. People often think I'm gay. I hang out with girls, so what? I'm just so confused...
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I'd think that'd make you look the opposite...Originally Posted by NewBlackMage
Don't worry. You're probably somewhere in between 6 and 10th grade, right? They're just idiots.
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"Gay" isn't a masculine term for homosexuality. It can be applied to both genders.
It's probably thought that because more immature little boys use it than girls.
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well I'd like to say gay started as meaning:
1) happy
2) bright and colorful
and that was it. When homosexuality came about, they decided to use the word gay because it was showing that they were happy even though many looked down on them and the like.
People use the word gay because who says it only means homosexual people, in fact, it doesn't even really mean homosexual people. I mean it basically does now, but not really.
You cannot even begin to compare this to the n-word. I mean look, we don't even say "nigger" we say the n-word. First of all, the n-word was created to be demoting to the race, by the whites who suppressed them. Gay was used as a term to show that they were happy with their lifestyle, and was already in existence, these two words are very different.
I use gay all the time, and personally, I don't care. It didn't start as meaning homosexual, and a lot of words are used in different ways than they are suppossed to. How come you didn't get offended when people called everything "the bomb" I mean, bombs are dangerous and kill people. Just because this word is connected to homosexuality, it can't be used more commonly?
Wow, I'm sorry, but if you believe this to be a significant problem... I don't know what to say...
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Last edited by ljkkjlcm9; 09-24-2009 at 07:48 AM.
Do people in US call themselves us or USans?
I pronounce it Nai-geer.
I use gay as an expression. Everyone does where I come from, even some of my friends who ARE gay. It doesn't bother us, but I can see why people get offended.
Chaos
I like Kung-Fu.
Sorry for not reading alot of thread nearly bed time. in my country there are lot of gay, but your argument is soooo funny because they have joke when they say to us on a night out ( i am straight with 2 close gay men friend) they say to us oh stop being so gay its pretty funny, but if i suppose if an anti gay man said it they would be hurt.
Have I missed something or is 'gay' actually not derogatory when talking about homosexuality? It just means homosexual in this context with no actual positive or negative connotations unless they are intended by the speaker. I may be wrong, or this might just apply to my area, I don't know.
I have used the word in the past to mean bad, I think I've stopped depending on the company. If I'm with people who I think are fine with homosexuality and know I'm not homophobic, I'll use it. If I think it could be taken wrongly, or could encourage some negative ideas then I won't. I haven't actually thought much about it till just now so that may or may not be true.
I say what I think. If you disagree, then that is up to you.
"Gay" isn't a duragetory term when it's used to reffer to someone who is actually homosexual, but it's often used in a durogetory manner to describe things.
IE: "Man, Bush got re-elected? HOW GAY!"
I like Kung-Fu.
It doesn't offend me as much as you guys make it out to be. I mean, I don't freak out every time someone uses the word in said context; I just find it stupid when people do. Of all the great words in the english language, why did it have to be "gay"? So what if many people didn't like them? Lots of countries hate the US, but you don't see them calling things they dislike "Americans". The same goes for Iraq and how no one says, "Aw man, this TV set keeps breaking down! It's such an Iraq!".
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Yeah...I should start calling everything "Bush".
I get what you're saying...and yeah, it's annoying. Particularly annoying when little kids say it, because they usually don't even know what it is.
I like Kung-Fu.
You see it with smaller scale stuff
But what then do we call the people of Nigeria?
It bugs me that the original use of the word (happy) was twisted to mean homosexual so it's a bit of comeuppance to have the nature of the word change again. I don't use it in that sense myself because I'm not TEN YEARS OLD.
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