Discussion: Overuse of the word Gay

[Phantom]

Since I disagree with homosexuality, no. Either way, my point was that words become slurs and insults, while their original intention was never meant to be that.

A few decades ago, black people would have been offended to be called anything but "negro". "Chinaman" was a common term and not a slur. You use either of these terms nowadays, and you'll be branded a racist.

On the other hand, "nigger", which was (and, to some extent, still is) a racial slur in recent history, has now become not just a slur, but a label -- it's only a socially acceptable label if used in the right context, or by the right people. Depending on who says it, it can be a racist label and a generalization for black people, or it could be a specific name used to refer to one black person. "Nigger-rigging" and "jury-rigging" are the same thing, along with "African engineering" and "Appalachian engineering".

The point is that languages, especially specific words in a language, evolve. Why is it that homosexuals are upset at the evolution of "their words", but fail to realize that they forced the evolution of some words to make them "theirs" in the first place?

EDIT: I don't know if it's because of the post or simply the statement that I disagree with homosexuality, but to the person who gave me negative rep, the entire four points you gave me doesn't count much. Thanks anyway.

Your quite welcome The last thing I went is to flame in my own thread, and the 4 points was worth it to me. I could careless weither or not you accept homosexuality or not, but I gave that rep because your post just went beyond offensive it was insulting to me as a homosexual. So explain to me how homosexuals forced the evolution of "their words"? Tell me something, what is "our words" Sasquatch? Seeing as you sincerly disagree with anything homosexual I wonder why you would even post in here in the first place. How did homosexuals twist those words? I don't think we used a screwdriver to twist them.





You think that most people who hear these words don't get offended by them? With the way homosexuals are treated even now just hearing someone say: That's Gay, or seeing it on webpages, or online games seeing it used in almost every sentence, just seeing or hearing it used that way is offensive (at least to me) but I'm sure there are probarly others that feel this way as well. To quote something I read earlier: "This is the gayest mother******* piece of gay **** I've ever seen in my life. Mother******* fags. This is ******* gay." Something I read while on FFXI earlier. But that's point I'm making. Some people don't see nothing wrong with that. I'm not trying to flamebait in any way here, so I'm sorry if I went off topic everyone.