re: instead of "gay!", i prefer to use "weak!"
anonymous
June 29 2008, 11:08:04 UTC
also, i cannot stand it when our moron president says, "nukular". can none of his highly educated and paid morons correct him? apparently not. i cannot tell you all of the bitter, angry, obscene epithets that i have shouted at the tv when he does this. perhaps the attached comic strip will illustrate:
i didn't know people said "gay" to mean uncoordinated or tasteless! I always thought that when people said something like "that's so gay" it meant something like "that's so feminine" i thought they WERE being mean and that it was intentional! anyway, i think i'd get mad too if a friend of mine said that.
wow that event really affected you too huh. I would say it was a life changing experience for me (a come to Jesus moment?).
I hear "that's gay" much less, although I still hear it and it bugs me too. Language patterns are hard to break out of, especially when they are reinforced by peers. People just want to fit in by saying what everyone else is saying, right? Not to make excuses for anyone.
I wonder what it would take to get people to stop using colloquialisms and actually speak like individuals. Except that might actually require some thinking (on their part, and mine).
a come to momentgestaltifyJuly 3 2008, 00:38:53 UTC
yep, it did affect me. but then again, i took everything way too intensely back then. i guess, judging from this post, i still do - but i just pick my battles more now? or do i just lag on the thinking part, too? :P
Well, I guess it started when we were, say, like 8 years old on the playground. And somebody (I don't remember who) said something like, "That's gay!!" in response to a new freeze tag rule.
2-3 years away from learning gay means "when a boy kisses another boy," we used it in the only context we knew. Another word for dumb. We made it a noun and called our dumb friends "gay-wad" or "gay-head."
Years later, I have been known to exclaim, "What manner of gayness is this?"
Ironically, I am equally humorless literalist about using "retard." That's just mean.
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I hear "that's gay" much less, although I still hear it and it bugs me too. Language patterns are hard to break out of, especially when they are reinforced by peers. People just want to fit in by saying what everyone else is saying, right? Not to make excuses for anyone.
I wonder what it would take to get people to stop using colloquialisms and actually speak like individuals. Except that might actually require some thinking (on their part, and mine).
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2-3 years away from learning gay means "when a boy kisses another boy," we used it in the only context we knew. Another word for dumb. We made it a noun and called our dumb friends "gay-wad" or "gay-head."
Years later, I have been known to exclaim, "What manner of gayness is this?"
Ironically, I am equally humorless literalist about using "retard." That's just mean.
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