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AtheistLGBTQAnarchist
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Gayness
It's been more of an important news topic in 2012 since Washington, but that's not what this post is about.
When were you called gay as an insult in your life if you actually were doing something gay or not?
Congratulations humanity,because you refuse to let go of the old and evolve you actually make people believe in 2012. Not only that, but you're the only species on Earth that were able to make it possible, now we get to sit until we die because we couldn't get to Mars. We have failed as a society and don't deserve our gifts to survive for this long. Maybe this is why dinosaurs are extinct, we sure aren't any better than the dirt you say we're created from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...DvwSOFto#! 
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RE: Gayness
all the time in middle school and high school...i have used the word gay to mean something that i thought was dumb but i try not to anymore
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AtheistLGBTQAnarchist
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Gayness
BUMP: BECAUSE I WILL NOT LET YOU AVOID THIS!
Congratulations humanity,because you refuse to let go of the old and evolve you actually make people believe in 2012. Not only that, but you're the only species on Earth that were able to make it possible, now we get to sit until we die because we couldn't get to Mars. We have failed as a society and don't deserve our gifts to survive for this long. Maybe this is why dinosaurs are extinct, we sure aren't any better than the dirt you say we're created from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...DvwSOFto#!
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magikarp
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RE: Gayness
Surprisingly little for a girl who was at one point a boyscout.*
Once in awhile someone will yell dyke or fag (??) at me, but no one really just implies I'm gay as an insult because I'm out anyway.
But when I was younger I was just kind of odd in a way that doesn't immediately read as gay, or at least not to a straight person, and people didn't really catch on or give me trouble about it.
*(You can do that in Canada.)
"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
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AtheistLGBTQAnarchist
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Gayness
There are many types of homosexualities. I could give a link if you want.
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Luizao876
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RE: Gayness
Some people in school called me a fag, viado, bicha, stuff like that.
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Gayness
I'm not gay but I respect the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere....tragically an uncommon sight in my state (Georgia) and as a friend of gays I am troubled to see the supression that they have inflicted upon them by the religious right (at least in America.) I will be happy to contribute my condlences to anyone. Just ask 
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Well...they tried to. It didn't really work 'cos I didn't see it as an insult...just grounds for telling people off for nosiness.
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Gayness
I guess one could point out that this thread is
*puts shades on*
GAY.
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Gayness
Today I was. It was next to impossible to not take it as an insult even though I don't actually have any problem with gays. Such is the nature of being hated, it puts you on the defense for everything.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
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RE: Gayness
I try to respect gays personally, but its difficult and all with my dad is a downright homophobe. It gets frustrating to be around him sometimes, especially in the car where I'm forced to listen to him bitch about how "disgusting," "sick," and "unnatural" gays and lesbians are off we happen to see them.
What's really disgusting for him to say is that he wouldn't want to be around neither one of us if me or my younger sister turned to be gay and we decided to bring one of our lovers home to visit.
Previously known as Derchin.
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It's really hard to change the language. People use the word gay as a catch-all negative pejorative. You can say something is gay and not mean it's homosexual. And the gay people were the ones that adopted a word that meant "happy," in the first place, so can they really complain about the evolution of the word into something else?
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Never as an insult (as far as I know), but a couple of people have thought I was lesbian at some point. One of them was a lesbian, so that was a bit of a weird conversation. 
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magikarp
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RE: Gayness
Probably we can complain about an 'evolution' of the word that stemmed directly and in the recent past from its use as a negative pejorative that did mean homosexual. (I'd also argue that the meanings aren't even in the present as unrelated as you think--like if someone gets called out on saying faggot, they'll say that faggot means something other than gay, even though in current use it pretty much does mean gay.)
Just kind of bored of the whole attitude of "I can say whatever I want and it means whatever I say it means, so any disapproval is an overreaction". Like, am I going to stop people from saying stuff is gay? No. Do I think it's polite or appropriate? Generally not.
"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
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I say stuff is gay and use faggot as an insult. Bite me.
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Is anyone here actually gay?
Congratulations humanity,because you refuse to let go of the old and evolve you actually make people believe in 2012. Not only that, but you're the only species on Earth that were able to make it possible, now we get to sit until we die because we couldn't get to Mars. We have failed as a society and don't deserve our gifts to survive for this long. Maybe this is why dinosaurs are extinct, we sure aren't any better than the dirt you say we're created from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...DvwSOFto#!
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magikarp
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RE: Gayness
I am, dunno about anyone else who is still here.
"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
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RE: Gayness
(01-11-2013 11:12 AM)Wes Wrote: I say stuff is gay and use faggot as an insult. Bite me.
Congrats on being an asshole, then? 
"Do we treat straight public sex differently than we do gay public sex? Of course. Straight people are so proud of their public sex that they named a cocktail after it."
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