Damn lefties should sit down and shut up.bpmomegaAugust 15 2009, 19:13:26 UTC
I mean, uh... nevermind.
Complaining about how "gay" gets used is... well... pretty gay.
Look, if you wanna get technical in the usage and definition of words, originally "gay" just meant "happy." "Homosexual" isn't its original usage, and nor is that the intent of how many people use it nowadays. When someone says "That is so gay," they mean "That is so stupid" not "That is os homosexual."
Besides, political correctness is one of the worst forms of censorship. They're just words, ya know. Regardless of what someone's intent is by what they say, they can't harm you if you don't let them. Remember the whole "sticks and stones" thing from elementary school? Have people forgotten that and become yellow-bellied sissies?
Re: Damn lefties should sit down and shut up.stelfton15August 15 2009, 21:12:05 UTC
Exactly. Political correctness has got to be the worst thing to come to America. It got to the point where they were thinking about restricting the word "brainstorm" because it might be offensive to epileptics!
Have people forgotten that and become yellow-bellied sissies?Yup, basically
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I know how "sinister" has had a history of being related to lefties... but in my mind, I just can't make that connection. To me, the word just means "evil"... has nothing to do with handedness in my head.
Re: Damn lefties should sit down and shut up.stelfton15August 15 2009, 23:53:44 UTC
No, I didn't see it. [shakes head] But damn, I didn't realize to what degree they had taken it. I am SO gonna send them a video relating "gay = bad" with "left = bad" while acting all serious and see if they post it.
but in my mind, I just can't make that connection
The beauty is that the same applies to "gay". I don't think people are using the word "gay" because it had anything to do with homosexuality, it just happen to form. Much like how "queer" was "stolen" away by homosexuals to mean... well, homosexual. But the thing is, people against "gay = bad" don't care if people didn't use "gay = bad" because of its relation to homosexuality, the just don't want people using it. And so my crusade against "left = bad" is that more relavant!
Gays should be happy that it's just a single word, and not something that entire organizations and several languages are against. The negative connotations of "left-handed/sidedness" is SO ingrained in our system that people don't even realize that they're putting lefties down!
But you know what it is too? Lefties have also learned to deal with it and not take it to heart. I honestly could care less about words like "sinister" and whatnot because I don't let it affect me! Maybe gays should learn to learn to deal with it themselves!
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Complaining about how "gay" gets used is... well... pretty gay.
Look, if you wanna get technical in the usage and definition of words, originally "gay" just meant "happy." "Homosexual" isn't its original usage, and nor is that the intent of how many people use it nowadays. When someone says "That is so gay," they mean "That is so stupid" not "That is os homosexual."
Besides, political correctness is one of the worst forms of censorship. They're just words, ya know. Regardless of what someone's intent is by what they say, they can't harm you if you don't let them. Remember the whole "sticks and stones" thing from elementary school? Have people forgotten that and become yellow-bellied sissies?
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Have people forgotten that and become yellow-bellied sissies?Yup, basically ( ... )
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I know how "sinister" has had a history of being related to lefties... but in my mind, I just can't make that connection. To me, the word just means "evil"... has nothing to do with handedness in my head.
Again, words are just words.
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but in my mind, I just can't make that connection
The beauty is that the same applies to "gay". I don't think people are using the word "gay" because it had anything to do with homosexuality, it just happen to form. Much like how "queer" was "stolen" away by homosexuals to mean... well, homosexual. But the thing is, people against "gay = bad" don't care if people didn't use "gay = bad" because of its relation to homosexuality, the just don't want people using it. And so my crusade against "left = bad" is that more relavant!
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But you know what it is too? Lefties have also learned to deal with it and not take it to heart. I honestly could care less about words like "sinister" and whatnot because I don't let it affect me! Maybe gays should learn to learn to deal with it themselves!
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And then I was (^.^)
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Don't say stuff that will make your friends upset. You know, the gay ones, in this case.
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