thats sooo gay MERGED

Petty shit like this deserves NO media attention. There are bigger problems at hand.

 

The media has a lot of space to cover stuff like this without detracting from their coverage of more important news. I wouldn't say it deserves no attention, I say just blame the Daily Mail et al for giving disproportionate amounts of coverage to stuff like this.

But yeah, there's no shortage of space in the media, so I don't see why "bigger problems" should push any issue out of the media altogether.

I don't have a problem with the word in itself, in the right context. But I can understand why institutions have a problem with it, because they get sick of being sued here and there because their employees either have no sense of humour or no sense of appropriacy.

 

I can't believe how prevelant it is!!!

How can people think it is okay to call something gay as a derogatory term, publicly?

Would it be accepted if someone said "thats just like a wet-back" or "just like a woman" or "those shoes are so niggerfied"?

NO!

This behavior SHOULD ABSOLUTELY be DISCOURAGED!

It is not acceptable!

There are TONS of non-offensive negative terms, ie sucks, shitty, bad, lousy, worthless, etc, etc, etc. There is no good reason to use speech that can potentially alienate an entire group of people. Why would someone want to do that???

 

I fully agree with you PhotoGra1, tho I don't get the wet-back reference? (maybe i'm just dense??)

 

its a racial slur...for Mexicans...one I would NEVER use!!!

 

some people say gay a lot and dont mean it as an insult to homosexuals...sometimes its just a word for something really stupid that they dont like.

 

Must be an american thing... being in the UK it's obvious why I've never heard of it

But that's just what I don't understand... WHY? It's such a pathetic insult that means NOTHING!!!

First gay means happy, then it means homosexual - now it's an insult? it makes no sense to me...

 

but its not even an insult.. people can just be like " oh man thats pretty gay" its just station something is stupid and they dont agree with it...

 

again, i know that already... but it still does not answer my question.... why? I'm not asking why people use it... i already know that - people are idiots, and are not intellegent enough to think up a worthy insult (yes, it's still an insult, regardless of how someone tries to justify it), so they throw out a generic "gay"...

What I want to know is how 'gay' has ended up in that position, rather than some other word? why gay and not "dog" or "sausage"...

regardless, it's pathetic, and i believe that people who are offended by it (myself included) need to try and turn a blind eye - but at the same time, we need to move to stop it from being used - once it was ******... now it's gay - ****** was not acceptable, so gay should not be either...

 

Correct, but that does not make it okay...

A schizophrenic a few years ago was killing people and drinking their blood, to replace the blood that the UFO's were sucking out of him. This was not a hate crime, and not a crime of passion, but to that individual, it was survival. If he didn't consume blood, his veins would dry up and he would die. Its still not acceptable behaviour!

It is disrespectful to call something gay as a derrogatory term. If someone chooses to be needlessly and recklessly disrespectful, they have every right to do so, but it is not a defendable action.

How could someone defend it?

I could call you a bitch and not mean it as an insult, but I suspect my intent would be of little interest to you and to others that heard me...

You see what I mean?

It breeds hate! NO EXCUSE!

 

I should add, for clarity, that I am NOT calling you a bitch, that was just added for effect...

 

I have noticed as many of you have probably, that a common word in my generation to note something boring or stupid or whatever... is to call it "gay"

I hear it in college... this class is gay, this exam is gay, that movie was gay, and so on.

Hear is my theory about this.

Gay was originally a word that had positive things about it... it mean lightness, happiness and so on... as it started being used to describe homosexuality, suddenly the original use of the word was tainted in the uptight minds of those that did not get sexuality, that's its just a big joke...

Thus gay was used by some people to describe the things mentioned above and it caught on quick... why?

Because it helps seperate uptight people from gayness, and it puts gayness in a negative spot in thier mind... thus helping suppress and repress desires that most likely exist in thier mind, as most people have tendencies toward both sexes even though they most likely prefer one over an other. (Note:Not that people can't get beyond desire... there are BEINGS that have gotten beyond all desire... I am talkin about people still caught.)


The use of the word "gay" in this way, becomes like a mantra for a person telling people thier stance on homosexuality as well... like they say, this movie was gay.. what they are really saying is, gay people are stupid and I don't like them... Thus distancing themselves from gayness.. because I don't like gay people it is obvious I am not gay. Such silliness

 

Let them over use the gay word . in time no one well even pay attention .

 

There is no "them" there is only US. It's all US, it is all ONE CONSCIOUSNESS.

 

i hear the dam word in every pc games and this idiots are all over the world so get off the U.S BULLSHIT.

 

In that case, maybe some reclamation is called for. Seems to have worked for the N-word.

 

When we come to Columbus himself, the accuracy of whose accounts has so recently been questioned, we find a Negro, Pedro Alonso Niño, as the pilot of one of the famous three vessels. In 1496 Niño sailed to Santo Domingo and he was also with Columbus on his third voyage. With two men, Cristóbal de la Guerra, who served as pilot, and Luís de la Guerra, a Spanish merchant, in 1499 he planned what proved to be the first successful commercial voyage to the New World.



The revival of slavery at the close of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the system of Negro slavery were due to the commercial expansion of Portugal in the fifteenth century. The very word Negro is the modern Spanish and Portuguese form of the Latin niger. In 1441 Prince Henry sent out one Gonzales, who captured three Moors on the African coast. These men offered as ransom ten Negroes whom they had taken. The Negroes were taken to Lisbon in 1442, and in 1444 Prince Henry regularly began the European trade from the Guinea Coast. For fifty years his country enjoyed a monopoly of the traffic. By 1474 Negroes were numerous in Spain, and special interest attaches to Juan de Valladolid, probably the first of many Negroes who in time came to have influence and power over their people under the authority of a greater state. He was addressed as "judge of all the Negroes and mulattoes, free or slaves, which are in the very loyal and noble city of Seville, and throughout the whole archbishopric thereof." After 1500 there are frequent references to Negroes, especially in the Spanish West Indies. Instructions to Ovando, governor of Hispaniola, in 1501, prohibited the passage to the Indies of Jews, Moors, or recent converts, but authorized him to take over Negro slaves who had been born in the power of Christians. These orders were actually put in force the next year.

 

Yeah, but on the upside, without slavery we wouldn't have rock music. So it ain't all bad.

I personally use "gay" in a derogatory way all the time, occasionally I feel a bit stupid about it but that's all.

 

with out the homo greek spartans a lot of things like the roman empire might have not happen since it was all base on the greeks.

 

SC I am really enjoying your posts.

Ganja~I think you've figured it out for the most part.