Kasz216 on 15 August 2009
| The Ghost of RubangB said: So it was like a "flamboyantly carefree to the point of being oblivious to morality" type of thing then? I'm just glad we dropped the word "homophile." The movement tried to co-opt that word for a while, like they've recently co-opted Queer (with a capital Q) as an umbrella term, but... the word just sounds weird. Too close to pedophile. You can't really end anything in "phile" anymore without it sounding gross now. I never even knew where the word gyp came from. And I was about to ask "So how did gyp come from racism?" but all of a sudden my master deduction skills kicked in and made sense out of it for me. Man I'm dumb. |
Nah. Nobody knows that and few people probably know anything about "gypsies" anyway.
But yeah... i guess it went from....
"Happy"
to
"So happy they ignore decentcy"
to
"So happy they ignore decentcy with sex"
to
"Only gay sex is indecent."
to
Homosexuals taking on the word as their own.
to
People calling stuff stupid.
Though those last two might of happened pretty close together. I remember my parents saying "Don't call people gay call them homosexuals"
when i was younger.
