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Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 21, 2011, 01:26:53 am ---How does closing of an arcade equate to homosexuality?


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Many words have more than one meaning.

Epyx:

--- Quote ---I think the problem is that the words association really didnt change from a sexual description, to a negative expression.  (check definition) It pretty much came into existence from bashing homosexuals.

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But by your own definition you are still calling the term late...remember the word Gay meant "Happy" long before it designated a sexual preference. Now with that said I am completely against gay bashing or its current use (implied derogatory meaning etc) and don't use it for that reason. I just find it amusing how its changed from happy to sexual orientation to its present use.  My interest is purely from a historical linguistic point of view...

Mikezilla:

--- Quote from: Xiaou2 on February 21, 2011, 10:50:23 pm --- I think the problem is that the words association really didnt change from a sexual description, to a negative expression.  (check definition) It pretty much came into existence from bashing homosexuals.

 Probably brought on and popularized widely by South Park alone.  Which is incredibly sad to see impressionable youth soak that crap up, and spreading the hate and intolerance... Even if its on an unconscious level.

 There are plenty of better ways to express displeasure than using a derogatory/bashing word.

 If we were using the derogatory word for African American to express a bad situation / experience... Im sure that would be flagged pretty quickly.

 Racial tolerance, rights, and abuses are much better monitored and protected against.  Yet sexual preference, discrimination, abuses...are not thought much about.
 In reality, its the same exact thing.


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"Lame" is the new gay anyway. Its funny how whenever someone uses the word "gay" someone ALWAYS chimes in and derails whatever the original topic was with this sort of thing.  ::)

Xiaou2:
Actually, its not funny. Which is why I continue to post it.

 The word Gay has Not added:

 "uncool, a drag, bummer"...ect..  as a definition.

 People started using it as a bashing terminology, stating that something was negative as it applies to homosexuality being negative.

 Then others started mindlessly copying the term, not realizing the significance of the term.

 Just because you dont realize the terms meaning, does not change the facts.  It does not and still has not changed the words definition.  Nor would it be correct to do so.. which is why it has not been changed.

 
 Long ago, I was talking with a guy, and I told him that someone "Japped" on me.  He Immediately corrected me.  While my meaning was "no show", I never realized the truth of the word that I spit out of my mouth... which was a negative inference to Japanese.
I was partly in shock, and felt stupid that I never put it together like that before.  I of course do not use that terminology anymore.


 The term Gay may have been adopted and accepted by the homosexual community,
and so hey, thats ok.  Its not negative, or destructive.   It was never meant to be used as a derogatory term.

 Just because people do not intend for a word to mean something else, such as Japped, it does not change how someone else who knows its real meaning hears it.  A Japanese person knowing where it came from, would surely feel a tingle of offense, even by a close friend who mindlessly used it in a conversation.

 Id love to see someone try to use the word Nazi to describe something cool/positive.
Maybe South Park creators can push the next gen of kids and teens into using it that way...   ::)
 

amendonz:
Just asked the gay guy at work if he gets offended when people describe some thing negative as gay, he said maybe ten years ago he might have but know he uses it himself lol. I dunno  that's just one person tho .

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