The "That's so Gay" is a dumb thing to say thread.

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stof said:
Exactly Rath!

Most people that use the word gay don't mean to slander gays at all. So why the hell do they use it!? My original and constant point still stands. If you showed up to school/work tomorrow and people around you said that's so nigger, don't be a fag and what a piece of jew, would you join in because "hey, they don't mean it in a bad way"?

I hope not.

Gay has become a term for bad because people used it to denote gay as being bad. And now, in a world where gays are still one of the most repressed, oppressed and misunderstood groups in the world. At a time when they are still fighting for their rights and freedoms (the right to be accepted and legally recognized in some countries, the right not to be executed in others" their name has become the label for anything negative.

I made this thread exactly for those people who use the word gay just because they think it means bad. The ones who are anti-gay require a whole different process. They need to have their views challanged, their minds expanded. But the people that for some reason think it doesn't hurt anyone to just throw the word gay at anything they don't like is a totally different and potentially easier problem to deal with.

They just need it brought to their attention that it's an offensive and hateful practice whether they intend it to be or not.

Gay does not mean to be bad or unacceptable. And half the people who use it in that manner really are using it because they equate gay with being bad. But the other half... There's still hope for that half.

I actually here "Don't be a nigger" and "Don't be a jew" fairly often actually.

Just sayin.

Also someone calling things a gyp happens a lot.  Another word that actually comes from racism.

I wonder how homosexuals got to be termed as "Gay" anyway.

Something to do with the stereotype of them being overly happy?