Actually, I believe he googled ‘faggy decor’ and picked the ninth and eleventh links. But **xtisme **is right. He didn’t read or didn’t understand what he was posting.
If you went to a pro wrestlers home and he had a light chartreuse paint and all kinds of frilly decorations, you might think to yourself, kinda faggy. Would you be saying anything about his sexuality. No. Could you say that to another person and expect him to understand what you meant. Yes. We do have a visual picture of what a "faggy decor " means. Of course we do. The visualization is divorced from sexual overtones. It is simply a recognizable style.
Yes, you would: if you said that, you’d be saying the decor was effeminate and made you think the wrestler was a little, you know, soft.
Yes. And the other person would know you meant the decor looked like something you thought a gay person would choose. The other person would know this. In fact every other person would know this except you, gonzomax.
You’ve picked a weird time to channel Bob Ross, you know that?
Well…no. I probably would think ‘Man, I really hate this decor’ or ‘Cheezit…this place really sucks. And this dude is friggin RICH!’…something along those lines. But then I’m fairly tolerant of people and their taste. Now, if the place SMELLED bad…I may have a problem.
I assume you meant this as a question…which, normally, one would use the question mark key to indicate. It’s the one just to the left of your right hand shift key…for future reference.
Assuming it was a question though, my answer is…of COURSE the person thinking to themselves ‘kinda faggy’ would be making a sexual assessment. Big strong heavily muscled wrestler (perhaps with copies of the 300 and Spartacus in their video collection) with effeminate decor…yeah, someone who is going to think ‘kinda faggy’ is most certainly doing so based on perceived sexual orientation.
Yes.
Why yes…I know EXACTLY what such a person would mean by such a comment. In fact, I know exactly what YOU mean when you say the poodles (or the wrestlers decor) is ‘kinda faggy’.
Yes…with caveats. Those being that I certainly know…but you seem to clueless to understand. Hell, everyone else understands perfectly.
Yup…it means that the person making the statement thinks the decor is something a flaming homosexual would use. Again, we all understand this…you are simply too clueless and stubborn to get it through the meter of bone you have sitting between your ears.
No, it isn’t. It’s completely tied into the perceptions and attitudes of someone who is making said statement. Anyone who is thinking ‘kinda faggy’ when looking at a pro wrestlers decor in the context of it being effeminate is most definitely making a sexually queued determination.
Certainly. And one directly associated with perceived homosexual orientation.
The fact that you can find links to other people using “faggy” as a descriptive term doesn’t mean that the word isn’t offensive, it means that those people are.
That review of the Arlington Diner was written in 1998. In the 11 years since, casual homophobia has become less acceptable.
What kidchameleon said.
Next time you want to say that something is flamboyant and over-the-top, try any of several words from this page.
Absolutely. I brought up a macho type to put it outside those who would be normally thought of as gay. Because it is not about gay. It is about a completely recognizable motif.
You guys are feeding off yourselves. Group stupidity and dishonesty. I suggest you damn well what sort of decor fits into the subgroup of faggy. If you think it is about sexual orientation ,you have to evolve a little.
It would have nothing to do with a librarian or a wrestler. Quit pretending you don’t know better.
You have raised missing the point to an art form. In fact, “missing the point” is an inadequate term, because it sounds so passive. You aggressively, actively miss the point - you put more energy into twisting, turning, and dodging the point than CERN puts into smashing particles together. If a Marine sniper had his sights trained on the point, the safest place in the world to be would be sitting in your brain, because it appears to be a violation of some fundamental physical law for the two to share a single point in space-time.
Of course I fucking know “what sort of decor” you call “faggy.” I also know that calling it “faggy” is offensive, and that there are lots of other words that the express the same idea more clearly and less offensively (see link above).
That’s why I’m still reading and posting here. There’s a Zen quality to this whole thing and I’m hoping I can attain enlightment though this total ridiculousness.
Right. Because gay people are stereotyped as not being macho. And what word did you use to describe an effeminate decor? Faggy, which is a derogatory term for gay people. So when you describe something as faggy, you are saying, “This looks like something a stereotypical gay person would have.”
Yes, everyone else who has posted to this - what, six page long? - thread is stupid and dishonest. And you’re the only one here who knows what’s really going on!
Oh, I do. It’s “stuff that looks like it was chosen by a fag.” There’s really no other way to define it that makes any sense, as has clearly been demonstrated by your own links. And there’s also no way to argue that “fag” is not massively derogatory to gays. Which leaves us with the inescapable conclusion that you are an asshole for using the term, and an idiot for thinking you can argue that it’s not offensive to gays.
So you’re saying that a fifty year old woman who decorated her home in this same style would also be “faggy?”