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Gay as an INacuracy
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Don't be homophobic. If something's shitty, then say it's shitty.

"Want evidence of how deeply we've allowed the media to define our beauty? Look in the mirror. How many of you honestly believe in your own essential beauty? Isn't it wrong that we have let the bastards define human beauty for us, instead of encouraging us to look within each other for it?"
06-29-2007 07:25 PM
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You know, you're right. We need a new term. "Gay" in that sense is not about homosexuality. It's about a whole mindset that has nothing to do with hot man on man action (or girl on girl, for that matter). But it is recognizable as lame, and sugary, and anticool, and whatever other things might apply. What do you call that mindset if not "gay"?

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07-02-2007 06:08 AM
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Doc Johnson Wrote:You know, you're right. We need a new term. "Gay" in that sense is not about homosexuality. It's about a whole mindset that has nothing to do with hot man on man action (or girl on girl, for that matter). But it is recognizable as lame, and sugary, and anticool, and whatever other things might apply. What do you call that mindset if not "gay"?

Those seem pretty good, for starters!
07-02-2007 06:21 AM
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Hate to go all Orwell on y'all, but...

++uncool (double-plus uncool)

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07-02-2007 09:30 AM
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