I'm attempting this in Gen Chat
I'm honestly curious about this one.
There's a commercial now about it as if it's one of those above the influence smoking/drug commercials.
What are your views on the way people loosely use the term "gay"?
If I'm being absolutely, truthfully honest, I think it's silly that it's become such a big problem. At the same time I DO see how it can come off offensive... But..
The way I look at is society has made a third meaning for the word, and it's not the first time a word is given a random meaning. It's not set in stone and there is no formal definition of that manner for the word, but I admit I use the word a lot to refer to something silly or lame;however, that in no way means I'm saying a person who is gay is silly or lame and I think that where there's problems. If you think of the word "retarded" and saying "oh that's so retarded"; that in no way means that I'm saying person who is mentally disabled is stupid. It's another loosely used term with kind of the same idea. Another example could probably be referring to someone or something as "ghetto"
The term gay shares the definition with "happy" so does that mean all gays are overly joyful?
I have tried to tone down the use of these kind of expressions because they can easily be taken the wrong way.
Opinions? My opinion is still swayabale.
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